Walking blind, the hard part is not "what is next to me" -- that is `/` --
but "what changed when I moved". Rounding a corner reveals a room, stepping
back hides it, a rat walks into sight behind you, and none of it is spoken.
Shift+/ cycles three modes:
settled (default) changes accumulate while moving, spoken once you have
stood still for 0.4s
always every step reports its own change
off
`settled` diffs against the state at the last ANNOUNCEMENT, not the last
step, so a long walk gives one combined summary that is a genuine net
change: something that came into view mid-walk and left again before you
stopped is not mentioned, and something visible throughout is mentioned
once. Summing per-step diffs would report both. A single step is the
degenerate case -- you are already standing still.
Arrivals and departures are deliberately asymmetric. Membership is current
FoV only (never rememberedFoV), but furniture drops out of FoV constantly
indoors as walls come between you and it, and "the bed is out of view"
every other step is noise. Arrivals are reported for every watched
category; departures only for creatures.
Terrain is unwatched by default -- water arrives dozens of tiles at a time.
Step detection polls playerActor.x/y as walltones does, so pathing, portals
and pushes are covered with no game function wrapped; the scan is a 14-tile
box and runs only on a step or a due settle, never per frame.
snapshot() and diffText() are pure and exposed so the testbed can assert
the wording and the FoV invariant directly instead of capturing speech.
34/34 testbed checks, 0 failures. Game footprint unchanged: main.lua | 1 +.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
