highland_games_website/lib/games.ts

export type GameStatus = "in-development" | "released" | "coming-soon";

export type Screenshot = {
  src: string;
  /** Short caption. Also used as the image alt text. */
  caption: string;
};

/**
 * A gameplay pillar: what the player actually *does*.
 *
 * Copy rules, borrowed from the EmberWild site so both properties describe the
 * game the same way:
 *   1. No story. No lore, no factions, no twists. A visitor should arrive
 *      knowing what they will do, not what they will find out.
 *   2. The title is one word. The body is one sentence.
 *   3. If the screenshot already says it, do not write it.
 */
export type Pillar = {
  title: string;
  body: string;
  /** The capture that illustrates it. */
  shot: string;
};

export type Game = {
  slug: string;
  title: string;
  status: GameStatus;
  /** One readable line. Shown under the title on cards and on the game page. */
  tagline: string;
  /** Full pitch. Shown in the "About" block of the game page. */
  description: string;
  genres: string[];
  releaseWindow?: string;
  steamUrl?: string;
  /** Player count, e.g. "1-6". Drives the co-op block on the game page. */
  players?: string;
  platform?: string;

  /** What the player does, one band each on the game page. */
  pillars: Pillar[];

  /**
   * Illustrated key art / cover (portrait or square-ish artwork).
   * Rendered on its own panel — never used as a background behind text,
   * because the artwork is light and text would become unreadable.
   */
  keyArt?: string;

  /**
   * Wide in-game capture used as the page banner. Prefer a 16:9 screenshot.
   * Text is never laid over it either; the title block sits underneath.
   */
  banner?: string;

  /**
   * Gallery. This is the ONLY place screenshots are declared: the game page
   * shows them all, the home page shows the first few of the featured game.
   * Drop new files in /public/image/Games/<Game>/ and add them here.
   */
  screenshots: Screenshot[];
};

export const STATUS_LABEL: Record<GameStatus, string> = {
  "in-development": "IN DEVELOPMENT",
  released: "RELEASED",
  "coming-soon": "COMING SOON",
};

export const games: Game[] = [
  {
    slug: "emberwild",
    title: "Emberwild",
    status: "in-development",
    tagline: "Co-op survival in a world gone wild.",
    description:
      "Emberwild is a 1-6 player co-op survival craft game. Drive the blight out of a handcrafted world, farm and build on the ground you take back, and watch the colour return with you. Five regions, nothing generated, nothing repeated.",
    genres: ["Survival", "Crafting", "Co-op", "Exploration"],
    releaseWindow: "TBA",
    players: "1-6",
    platform: "PC",
    keyArt: "/image/Games/Emberwild/Cover.png",
    banner: "/image/Games/Emberwild/Capture_1.png",
    // Only three captures exist so far, so "Build" borrows the key art. Swap
    // it for a real in-game shot of a base as soon as there is one.
    pillars: [
      {
        title: "Restore",
        body: "Drive the blight out and the colour comes back with it. What you clear stays clear.",
        shot: "/image/Games/Emberwild/Capture_1.png",
      },
      {
        title: "Survive",
        body: "Farm, cook, fish, hunt. Clean ground grows more and sleeps quieter.",
        shot: "/image/Games/Emberwild/Capture_2.png",
      },
      {
        title: "Explore",
        body: "One handcrafted world, five regions. Nothing generated, nothing repeated.",
        shot: "/image/Games/Emberwild/Capture_3.png",
      },
      {
        title: "Build",
        body: "Raise a home. Push outposts into everything you take back.",
        shot: "/image/Games/Emberwild/Cover.png",
      },
    ],
    screenshots: [
      {
        src: "/image/Games/Emberwild/Capture_1.png",
        caption: "First light over the clearing",
      },
      {
        src: "/image/Games/Emberwild/Capture_2.png",
        caption: "Autumn treeline",
      },
      {
        src: "/image/Games/Emberwild/Capture_3.png",
        caption: "The path through the meadow",
      },
    ],
  },
];

/** The game showcased on the home page. */
export const featuredGame: Game | undefined = games[0];

export function getGame(slug: string): Game | undefined {
  return games.find((g) => g.slug === slug);
}