From 3155f1907251764b657998141f9903120304d69f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nicodes Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 18:35:34 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] The arcade bundles these three again termcade vendors asteroid, tetris and brickough as a starter pack and unpacks them on first run, so a fresh arcade is playable before it has an account or a network. They are still ordinary .tcade packages in the wasm sandbox, and still install the normal way; the source stays here so a game can change without a release of termcade. Names the cost rather than leaving it implied: a prebundled game does not exercise resolve/fetch/verify, so the registry path has to be covered on its own now. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) --- README.md | 22 +++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7e413c1..ff5516d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -3,9 +3,10 @@ Every game aviorstudio publishes to the [termcade](https://github.com/aviorstudio/termcade) marketplace. -The arcade ships with none of them. It compiles no games in and bundles no -starter pack — a fresh termcade is an empty cabinet and a marketplace, and -everything here is installed the same way a stranger's game is: +The arcade compiles no games in: these are `.tcade` packages in the wasm +sandbox, same as anybody's. All three are also vendored into the arcade as a +starter pack and unpacked on first run, so a fresh termcade is playable +before it has an account or a network. They install the ordinary way too: ```sh termcade add aviorstudio/asteroid @@ -13,10 +14,17 @@ termcade add aviorstudio/tetris termcade add aviorstudio/brickough@0.0.1 # or pin a version ``` -That is the point of this repository existing separately. There is no -privileged path for first-party games: these go through the registry, on the -same terms, using the same commands, and if that path is broken they are as -broken as anybody else's. +The source stays here rather than in the arcade so the two move separately — +a game changes without a release of termcade, and the SDK contract is the +only thing between them. + +The bundling is a real cost, worth naming: a game that arrives prebundled +does not exercise resolve/fetch/verify, so the registry path can rot without +a first-party game noticing. It has to be covered on its own rather than by +these three happening to use it. + +To refresh the vendored packs after changing a game, from a termcade checkout +beside this one: `go generate ./internal/starter`. ## The games