Phase 1: console history, review keys, and wall tones

Game-file footprint unchanged: still one line in main.lua.

Console (Q4: speak everything queued, cancelled by explicit action):
- history.lua keeps our own unbounded history, since the game's console buffer
  expires entries after 3s. Mirrors the game's (xN) coalescing so what is heard
  matches what is on screen. The review cursor holds position while new lines
  arrive rather than being yanked to the tail mid-read.
- patches/console.lua wraps console.print, calling the real one first so a bug
  on our side cannot swallow a message the player would otherwise see.
- Any keypress reaching the game silences the pending speech backlog.

Hotkeys: [ and ] review, Shift+[/] jump to ends, \ repeat, Shift+\ copy.
Chosen from scancodes the game does not bind. Note keybindings.getCommand()
ignores modifiers, so Ctrl+Up would read to the game as a movement -- our keys
are consumed and never overlay a game-claimed scancode.

Wall tones (Q5: on step, 3D-positioned, radius 5):
- Direction and distance are deliberately decoupled. The listener sits at the
  camera 4 units above the plane under an inverse distance model, so placing a
  tone at the wall's real position would make distant walls quieter (the
  opposite of the request) and collapse the stereo pan. Instead the source sits
  at a fixed radius in the wall's direction at listener height, and volume is
  computed explicitly from distance.
- Step detection polls player coordinates rather than hooking movement, so it
  covers walking, pathing, portals and pushes for free.
- Respects FoV/rememberedFoV; never leaks unseen geometry.

tests/test_history.lua: 16 assertions, all passing, pure Lua.

Not yet verified in actual play -- needs a human at the keyboard.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Accessibility Mod
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-- walltones.lua — directional wall cues, played on each step.
--
-- Scans the four cardinal directions from the player out to `radius` tiles, finds
-- the first movement-blocking tile in each, and plays that direction's tone
-- positioned in 3D so the ear can place it.
--
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Why direction and distance are handled separately
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
-- The game sets an *inverse* distance model (main.lua) and puts the listener at
-- the camera: views/levelWindow.lua does
--
-- love.audio.setPosition(x*0.4, y*0.4, 4)
--
-- i.e. 0.4 world units per tile, listener floating 4 units above the map plane.
--
-- If we simply placed each tone at its wall's real position, OpenAL would
-- attenuate it by distance -- so a far wall would be QUIETER. That directly
-- fights the requested behaviour (far wall = louder). It would also be feeble
-- directionally: with the listener 4 units up and a wall 5 tiles out (2.0 units),
-- the vertical offset dominates and the pan collapses toward centre.
--
-- So we decouple the two:
--
-- * DIRECTION comes from 3D position. The source is placed at a FIXED radius
-- from the listener, in the wall's direction, at the listener's own height
-- (z = listener z) so the pan is purely horizontal and as wide as possible.
-- * DISTANCE comes from explicit volume, which we compute. Because the source
-- sits at a constant distance, OpenAL's attenuation is constant and does not
-- interfere.
--
-- Positioning relative to the *listener* (queried via love.audio.getPosition)
-- rather than to the player keeps the pan correct even while the player is
-- panning the camera away with the moveCamera key.
local walltones = {}
local config = {
enabled = true,
-- How far to look for a wall, in tiles.
radius = 5,
-- Fixed distance (world units) at which tones are placed. Only affects the
-- constant attenuation, not the perceived direction.
sourceRadius = 1.0,
-- Volume at the near and far ends of the range.
nearVolume = 0.25,
farVolume = 1.0,
-- As requested: a wall further away is LOUDER.
--
-- Flagging this because it inverts the usual convention -- most proximity cues
-- get louder as you approach, and a nearby wall is the more urgent fact. If it
-- reads backwards in play, set this to false and near walls become the loud
-- ones; nothing else needs to change.
louderWhenFurther = true,
}
walltones.config = config
local directions = {
north = {dx = 0, dy = -1},
south = {dx = 0, dy = 1},
east = {dx = 1, dy = 0},
west = {dx = -1, dy = 0},
}
local sources = {}
local lastX, lastY, lastLevel
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Loading
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function walltones.load()
for name in pairs(directions) do
local path = "accessibility/assets/walltones/walltone_" .. name .. ".wav"
if love.filesystem.getInfo(path) then
sources[name] = path
else
print("[accessibility] missing wall tone: " .. path)
end
end
end
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Scanning
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Distance in tiles to the first movement-blocking tile in a direction, or nil if
-- none within radius.
--
-- Only counts tiles the player has actually seen (FoV or rememberedFoV), so this
-- never leaks map knowledge -- the tracker/explorer must not become a cheat.
local function distanceToWall(level, x, y, dx, dy)
for step = 1, config.radius do
local tx, ty = x + dx * step, y + dy * step
if not level.grid[tx] or not level.grid[tx][ty] then
return step -- edge of map reads as a wall
end
local seen = (level.FoV and level.FoV[tx] and level.FoV[tx][ty])
or (level.rememberedFoV and level.rememberedFoV[tx] and level.rememberedFoV[tx][ty])
if not seen then
return nil
end
for _, tile in ipairs(level.grid[tx][ty]) do
if tile.blocksMovement and not tile.isHidden then
return step
end
end
end
return nil
end
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Playing
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
local function volumeFor(distance)
-- Normalise to 0 (adjacent) .. 1 (at the radius limit).
local t = (distance - 1) / math.max(1, config.radius - 1)
t = math.max(0, math.min(1, t))
if not config.louderWhenFurther then
t = 1 - t
end
return config.nearVolume + (config.farVolume - config.nearVolume) * t
end
local function playTone(name, dx, dy, distance)
local path = sources[name]
if not path then
return
end
-- Tagged so the game's own sfx/interface volume sliders apply.
local ok, source = pcall(TEsound.play, path, "static", {"sfx", "interface"}, volumeFor(distance))
if not ok or not source then
return
end
pcall(function()
local lx, ly, lz = love.audio.getPosition()
source:setPosition(
lx + dx * config.sourceRadius,
ly + dy * config.sourceRadius,
lz -- same height as the listener: maximise horizontal pan
)
end)
end
function walltones.playFor(level, x, y)
if not config.enabled then
return
end
for name, dir in pairs(directions) do
local distance = distanceToWall(level, x, y, dir.dx, dir.dy)
if distance then
playTone(name, dir.dx, dir.dy, distance)
end
end
end
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Step detection
--
-- Polling the player's tile coordinates each frame rather than hooking movement.
-- Comparing two integers is free, and it means no game function is wrapped --
-- every way the player can move (walk, path, teleport, portal, push) is covered
-- by construction.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function walltones.update()
if not config.enabled then
return
end
local ok, world = pcall(require, "models.world")
if not ok then
return
end
local level = world.currentLevel
if not level or not level.playerActor then
return
end
local actor = level.playerActor
local x, y = actor.x, actor.y
if not x or not y then
return
end
-- Entering a new level should not fire a volley of tones for a position the
-- player never stepped from.
if level ~= lastLevel then
lastLevel = level
lastX, lastY = x, y
return
end
if x == lastX and y == lastY then
return
end
lastX, lastY = x, y
walltones.playFor(level, x, y)
end
return walltones