HEX Contract

# HEX CONTRACT — Finalization RC1

HEX CONTRACT is a source-only Pygame cyber-fantasy guild simulator for the GLITCHED MATRIX Prototype Lab. The player selects a contract, deploys one autonomous hero, issues a non-binding guild order, equips a preparation kit, establishes an optional remote HEX Link, and observes a personality-driven mission whose consequences persist across the guild roster.

Finalization RC1 contains the complete accepted source game. It does not require or include a standalone executable.

## Complete game structure

- Four detailed autonomous heroes with distinct doctrines, equipment silhouettes, animation, injuries, death history, and restoration scars

- Three authored contract worlds with nine enemy identities and three signature sovereigns

- Equipment preparation, quest intelligence, guild orders, deterministic complications, and optional HEX Links

- Persistent guild treasury, renown, medbay recovery, hero strain, elimination, victory restoration, and Last Light cycles

- Six hero-pair relationships, bond events, and link mastery

- Night of Three Sovereigns linked campaign with persistent battlefield aftermaths

- Title/continue flow, contextual onboarding, settings, field guide, generated audio, profile recovery, and 720p/1080p scaling

- Prototype Lab discovery metadata and a source-only game-result packet

## Final balance identity

The roster is deliberately asymmetric:

- **NYX-7** leads direct purge speed and can force prepared off-role victories at substantial risk.

- **Brother Circuit** is the safest protector and strongest rescue anchor.

- **Vesper Coil** is the low-strain Blackglass specialist and precision support operative.

- **MORROW-9** uses defeated enemies as temporary echoes that now absorb real hostile pressure; MORROW leads fast rescue routing but remains vulnerable to corruption and collapse.

Every hero is viable. Every contract has multiple credible choices. Equipment, orders, and HEX Links can recover difficult matchups, but poor unprepared assignments can still fail.

## Controls

### Front end

- **Enter / C:** continue from title

- **S:** settings from title or contract board

- **H:** field guide

- **N twice:** start a new guild profile

- **F11:** fullscreen toggle

- **Esc:** back; return to title; quit from title

### Contract flow

- **LMB:** select contracts, heroes, orders, equipment, HEX Links, bond outcomes, actors, or restoration targets

- **RMB:** back or close dossier

- **O:** cycle guild order

- **R:** medbay recovery

- **E:** cycle equipment

- **B:** cycle HEX Link support

- **Enter:** prepare, deploy, acknowledge results, or trigger Last Light

- **Tab:** decision analysis

- **I:** actor dossier

- **Space:** pause

## Run

```bash

python main.py

```

## Key verification commands

```bash

python -m py_compile main.py game/*.py tools/*.py

python main.py --quick-test --no-audio

python main.py --pass10-test --no-audio

python main.py --pass11-test --no-audio

python main.py --pass12-test --no-audio

python main.py --pass13-test --no-audio

python tools/pass13_balance.py

python tools/pass13_endurance.py

python tools/pass13_verify.py

```

Pygame is the game engine. Panda3D is used only to confirm that exported 1920×1080 proof images can be decoded and measured independently.