On game over (defeat) + START, restart the maze at the same level the
player had reached instead of resetting to 1. Only starting a new game
from the title screen zeroes the counter. Victory still increments as
before.
Run (B + direction):
- player_logic.c: while holding B + direction with stamina >= 10, each tile
takes 8 frames instead of 16 (move_progress += 2, LERP >>4 unchanged) and
costs 10 stamina per tile. DAS_REPEAT_RUN=2 chains tiles fluidly.
- Falls back silently to normal walk when stamina < 10.
Level progression:
- New global 'level' (starts at 1). title->game resets to 1; reaching the
hatch (victory/Going Deeper) + START increments before engine_init (new
maze); defeat + START resets to 1.
- Top-left HUD 'L<n>' via 3 sprites (OAM 23-25) from new level.png asset
(glyphs L, 0-9), generated by scripts/generate_level.py and converted
with png2asset -keep_duplicate_tiles for predictable tile ordering.
- VRAM base aligned to an EVEN index (8x16 hardware ignores tile LSB) and
placed after the stamina load claim to avoid the shared BG tile block.
- update_level_display() called every frame; hides during game over/title.
Docs: README, doc/gameplay.md and the technical report updated.
- Add doc/AScreamFromTheDark_report.md: deep technical report covering
architecture, features, historical workarounds and known debt.
- Rewrite README.md to reflect the current 'A Scream from the Dark'
identity (ghost enemy, stamina/jump, fog of war, going-deeper victory)
instead of the stale 'gioco carino' copy with old file paths.
- Update doc/generation.md: goal is now a random south-edge hatch,
not the max-Manhattan-distance portal.
- Remove orphaned src/victory.{c,h} and its include in render.c;
the victory sequence was replaced by the full-screen next_level image.
- Regenerate tracked png2asset outputs to match current build.
Matteo Benedetto