Add an offline Ix initializer through the real setup pipeline, supporting Basic and Advanced play, base factions, Ixians and Tleilaxu with the full 47-card deck and 22-card spice deck. Preserve all normal start and publication gates. Add a reusable local prototype starter: back up the named fresh ready lobby, initialize it once by exact version/state comparison and preserve seat/recovery tables and other rooms. Update the existing checklist with a separate prototype stage and document functional scope, source interpretations and later refinement. Six new tests cover all-profile private setup, exact typed starting forces, Face Dancer/treachery custody, JSON continuation, two fixed-seed complete games and local SQLite write/rejection boundaries. Independent review caught a missing JSON version update, now fixed and covered; focused checking fixed one test typing error before the stable broad check. No new rule interpretation was introduced. Validation: types, lint and 4,211 offline tests passed (123.237s); production build passed (6.543s); all 40 HTTP tests passed (23.578s). Source-bound report: 20260913-ix-prototype-final/report.json, fingerprint 3b8f295593bcb314bb72308d81739006b11d949d1e5906dbf6ce0704b15ebd72. Browser W5LE6VFB: human Ixian + Medium Tleilaxu + Hard Atreides from genuine setup, private starting-card refresh, Weather Control, mobile stronghold placement, then owned Brutal autopilot. Atreides won on turn 1; this short complete journey is not proof of every card or faction interaction. Finished private hand restored at phone width; expanded Poison Tooth was readable. Fixed-seed offline games 2026091301 (Basic) and 2026091302 (Advanced) both completed with both Ix factions. All 64 opening room versions/hashes are unchanged. One browser room and 30 HTTP rooms were added, totaling 95. Reused the running server; no restart or automation. Aggregate goal counters: 59,524,858 to 59,976,567 at completed verification, 451,709 tokens before final Git overhead. Two bounded workhorse helpers handled inventory/tests and independent review; one stable full check/build/HTTP run. Full game scope remains active and unfinished; future work prioritizes missing functional prototypes before exhaustive refinement and final acceptance.
Dune — Arrakis Table
An unofficial multiplayer adaptation of Gale Force Nine’s classic 2019 Dune, built with React, TypeScript, Vinext, and Cloudflare Workers/D1. Development is ongoing; this is not yet a complete rules implementation. Advanced and unfinished expansion starts remain disabled. Start with current status for implemented systems, remaining requirements and release gates; detailed historical evidence remains in the implementation log.
Run locally
Use Node.js 22.13 or newer and npm. Install the locked dependencies and apply local migrations before starting the server:
npm ci
npm run db:local
npm run dev -- --host 0.0.0.0
Open http://localhost:3000. Create a room, share its eight-character invitation, and add human or AI seats. The host can configure Easy, Medium, Hard and Brutal AI opponents. Current calibration demonstrates a substantially weaker Easy policy; it does not yet demonstrate a consistent ordering among the upper three levels.
Local games persist in .wrangler/state. Keep this directory across restarts. Apply new additive migrations before running code that depends on them. Never delete the local database to resolve a connection or rules problem. .openai/hosting.json belongs to the existing Sites project; do not recreate the hosting project.
Saved seats and reconnecting
The room cookie identifies your seat. Refreshing or reopening the invitation with that cookie restores your private hand and pending decisions. A failed restoration offers an explicit retry. Requests time out after 15 seconds; uncertain game actions are reconciled with a read rather than automatically repeated.
Use Protect your saved seat to generate and privately save a recovery kit before enabling its key. Keep the complete kit separate from the invitation. Recover a saved seat uses that kit to restore the same faction after cookie loss and revokes the previous browser sessions for that seat. Recovery keeps existing forces, resources and sealed commitments. Anyone holding the kit can control that seat and see its private information.
If recovery receives no confirmed response, keep the page open and retry the same recovery request. The server recognizes the receipt and does not rotate twice. Replacing the recovery key invalidates the older kit. Host-initiated takeover remains unfinished. An owning human seat can enable or disable its own AI control during a started game.
New create/join requests save a private, tab-scoped retry record before sending. If the response is uncertain, keep the tab open and use the explicit retry; refresh preserves the same request. Confirmed success removes that record. Clearly rejected first requests return to the form for correction. A retry can recover the original room and seat without creating duplicates, but closing the tab or clearing its data can lose the proof. This record is separate from the long-term seat recovery kit.
An uncertain saved-kit recovery keeps its exact retry details in memory and prevents conflicting navigation. If that recovery has become obsolete, deliberate abandonment releases the controls after explaining that it cannot undo a completed recovery. Keep a valid saved kit before discarding retry details.
Verify changes
Use the development guide for architecture, focused tests and the repeatable verification tools. Tests are discovered automatically; the default suite includes in-memory persistence recovery and needs no server:
npm test -- ecaz-collection ecaz-spice
npm run check
npm run build
Run npm run test:integration against a development server for HTTP/session
changes. npm run test:multiplayer remains available for recovery plus HTTP
checks; npm run test:recovery runs only in-memory persistence tests. All test
commands accept filename fragments and --list after --.
The production build is written to dist. npm start runs that build with Wrangler; apply its database migrations to the intended storage environment before use. The included local migration command targets the development database, not a remote deployment.
Reproduce the current AI study with:
node --import tsx tools/ai-calibration.ts --games 120 --seed 20260907 --out /tmp/dune-ai-calibration.json
See AI calibration, multiplayer audit, component inventory, and visual playtest for scope and limitations. Passing subsystem tests does not certify every rules combination.
Development maintenance
The user-authorized 13 September 2026 local reset established a fresh saved-game baseline; see the reset record. Preserve all games created after that checkpoint.
Reuse the running development server. Restart only when a code or configuration change, or an observed server condition, makes leaving it running likely to cause issues; use judgment rather than an hourly schedule. Preserve database state, warn before interrupting human play, and defer until a safe decision point. Verify server health and restoration after a necessary restart. No recurring automation is installed; the user requested leaving it removed. Fix causes of crashes and lost progress rather than relying on restarts.
The application bundles its artwork, fonts and rules guidance. Source provenance and third-party notices live in developer documentation; the player-facing reference uses internal links. Publication remains gated on completion and integrated verification of the requested rules, expansions and critical player journeys.