five-on-it / packages/ai/src/police-news
packages/ai/src/police-news
The news ticker (M11, GAME_DESIGN §12): a headline on every player's HUD that narrates the chase, the city's own view of it. Each line is a kind (NEWS_KINDS: a player's stars past five, the lockdown declared at nine, "Unicorn status" at ten, a police unit destroyed, the budget run dry and refilled, a legendary escape by extraction, a car towed) with the place and the stars it speaks of; the clients say it in the player's language from a table of deadpan, satirical lines ("Mayor: the incident is within KPIs"), invented brands only. The ticker is the room's: every player reads its last line. The book keeps the last NEWS.keep and their count. Deterministic: lines run in the police system's order, numbered.