I Drink Your Milkshake

THE ONE-SCENE SECRET

This whole game has exactly ONE Godot scene file — scenes/main.tscn, a single bare Node. Every other node (the entire world, player, bosses, UI, VFX) is built in CODE at runtime via Node.new() + add_child(), enforced by the repo's G-NO-TSCN rule — because the game is built by a fleet of parallel AI agents, and merge-safe code beats binary scene diffs.

THE ORGANIZATION

Built by a studio that doesn't exist yet

Structure status: PROPOSED, pending Founder ratification — 6 of 36 defined roles are active/ratified today (CEO, CTO, CMO-studio, COO-ops, HR-records, studio-creative-producer); the rest is the org chart the studio is hiring into. Chain of authority: Founder (final creative/release call) → CEO/Executive Producer → Game Director · CTO/Technical Director · Studio Director/CMO · CQO (independent quality judgment) · COO — plus Observability & Records, feeding evidence and lessons straight back to the CEO. Every seat carries an explicit, concrete required gate, not a vibe.

Direction & Design

Game Director + 3: World & Systems Design, Combat Design, UX & Accessibility.

Narrative

Narrative Director + 5: quest/systemic dialogue, cinematic writing/VO direction, narrative systems engineering, quest tech design, continuity QA.

Runtime & Platform

CTO + 5, including the C++ Engine & Platform Lead — the seat carrying the C++ mandate below.

World & Presentation

Studio Director/CMO + 8 art/audio/cinematics leads.

Production / Build / Release

COO + Development Producer, Build & Release Lead, Machine & CI Operator.

Quality

CQO (independent judgment) + 3 QA leads.

THE STACK

GDScript today. C++ by mandate.

Current production source: 225 GDScript files, 14 Godot shaders, exactly 1 .tscn — zero first-party C++, .gdextension, or 3D-asset source files exist yet. The Founder directed a C++-heavy runtime on 2026-07-27; the plan is seam-by-seam, not a rewrite — no "rewrite everything in C++" ticket exists.

C++ GDExtension

Planned, not built: chunk streaming/HLOD, dense NPC simulation + perception, combat resolution + deterministic replay, animation/IK/crowd instancing, story-state + save hot paths, perf counters + trace export, import-time validators.

Shaders / RenderingDevice

Godot-native, Metal reached through Godot's own abstraction: foliage/cloth wind, wetness, water, particles, atmospheric scattering, ink effects, GPU instancing.

GDScript stays

Scene orchestration, UI, quest/cinematic sequencing, content adapters, and the tests that exercise the C++ contracts once they exist.

⚠ C++ layer: 100% planned, 0% built·gate G-ENGINE-PIN/native-ABI: BLOCKED — no godot-cpp source, headers, or native build definition on this host·Godot editor/template ratified at 4.7.1, host currently runs 4.7.0 (migration source only)

THE RUNTIME SCENE TREE

One bare scene. A living tree.

◆MainNodemain.gd

└─AudioAudioManager

└─TitleMenu / CampaignMenu / SettingsMenuCanvasLayer

└─CharacterForgeControl

└─ColdOpenCanvasLayer

└─WorldNode2Dworld.gd

└─PaintedWorldNode2D

└─AtmosphereDirector

└─LightingDirector

└─CameraDirectorScript

└─ImpactDirectorCanvasLayer

└─InkGoreDirector

└─ExtractionDirector

└─DoorTransitionScriptCanvasLayer

└─HorizonLandmarksScript

└─RodaAmbush

└─FinaleDirector

└─StudentSummonDirector

└─CampaignEarlyDirector (+ 3D variant)

└─CampaignTourDirector

└─CampaignM10Director … CampaignM14Director (5 mission directors)

└─MilkshakeShrine

└─StudentsTableBattle

└─<region>.gd module (e.g. mantis.gd)

└─PlayerCharacterBody2Dplayer.gd

└─NPC × NArea2D

└─Enemy / Boss*CharacterBody2D

└─FighterJuice

└─DialogueBoxCanvasLayer

└─HudCanvasLayer

└─OverlaysCanvasLayer

THE BUILD PIPELINE

From painted file to frame-by-frame play

01

① Raw art PNG

Painted source art enters the project.

title-backdrop-scene.png

02

② .import

Godot bakes each PNG/wav into a GPU-ready Texture2D/AudioStream; this repo has 1257 .import sidecars.

title-backdrop-scene.png.import

03

③ project.godot

Names scenes/main.tscn as the run scene, sets the 1280×720 viewport, and registers the Game autoload.

project.godot

04

④ main.gd app shell

Runs title → campaign menus, then enters _start_run().

main.gd

05

⑤ world.gd

Assembles the level from data: discovers scenes/regions/*.gd, paints ground from the world_kit_ii atlas, and spawns Player, enemies, and directors via .new().

world.gd

06

⑥ Every frame

Input actions drive CharacterBody2D movement, hitbox Area2D contact, Enemy.take_hit(), and Game.boss_defeated on the Game event bus; then the macOS .app export is made.

scenes/regions/mantis.gd

THE 7 SCHOOLS + HIDDEN FINALE

A path through seven schools

01

Master Mantis

mantis · school

mantis student gameplay render — student_mantis.png

mantis tendan gameplay render — tendan_mantis.png

02

Iron Auntie

tiger · school

tiger student gameplay render — student_tiger.png

tiger tendan gameplay render — tendan_tiger.png

03

The Velvet Fist

leopard · school

leopard student gameplay render — student_leopard.png

leopard tendan gameplay render — tendan_leopard.png

04

Brother Porridge

monkey · school

monkey student gameplay render — student_monkey.png

monkey tendan gameplay render — tendan_monkey.png

05

Widow Crane

crane · school

crane student gameplay render — student_crane.png

crane tendan gameplay render — tendan_crane.png

06

Master Straw

snake · school

snake student gameplay render — student_snake.png

snake tendan gameplay render — tendan_snake.png

07

Abbot Noodle

dragon · school

dragon student gameplay render — student_dragon.png

dragon tendan gameplay render — tendan_dragon.png

08

THE CHECK

Low Key · hidden finale

The path ends at the hidden finale.

THE DRAWING ENGINE

EVERYTHING IS DRAWN, NOT PLACED

Characters aren't static sprites — a code-built HumanoidRig (bones + Verlet-chain secondary motion) plus a per-character FighterSkin maps painted PNG parts onto the bones. That's why each art/<char>/ folder has source/ + parts/ + atlas/.

GALLERY / RENDER PROOF

The game, caught in the act

whole-game render proof · walk-through contact sheet

Master Mantis student gameplay screenshot — mantis · Master Mantis · student

Master Mantis tendan gameplay screenshot — mantis · Master Mantis · tendan

Iron Auntie student gameplay screenshot — tiger · Iron Auntie · student

Iron Auntie tendan gameplay screenshot — tiger · Iron Auntie · tendan

The Velvet Fist student gameplay screenshot — leopard · The Velvet Fist · student

The Velvet Fist tendan gameplay screenshot — leopard · The Velvet Fist · tendan

Brother Porridge student gameplay screenshot — monkey · Brother Porridge · student

Brother Porridge tendan gameplay screenshot — monkey · Brother Porridge · tendan

Widow Crane student gameplay screenshot — crane · Widow Crane · student

Widow Crane tendan gameplay screenshot — crane · Widow Crane · tendan

Master Straw student gameplay screenshot — snake · Master Straw · student

Master Straw tendan gameplay screenshot — snake · Master Straw · tendan

Abbot Noodle student gameplay screenshot — dragon · Abbot Noodle · student

Abbot Noodle tendan gameplay screenshot — dragon · Abbot Noodle · tendan

BUILD STATUS

Godot 4.7·single macOS preset com.wolf.idrinkyourmilkshake, universal arm64+x86_64, ad-hoc codesigned (not notarized)·slices 8–11 complete·Q1-AUDIO-SILENCE + Q2-TITLE-COMPOSE gate=PASS·⚠ F6 human playtest still owed

Built by a 36-role AI-agent studio org (currently proposed, pending Founder ratification), headless-verified via 25 *AuditScript classes gated behind 15 MILKSHAKE_* env probes — the render screenshots you see ARE the CI proof.