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████████ / CASE FILEA helicopter puts you on the roof. The files are in the cabinets, the guards are between you and them, and the street is a long way down.
The board
- Reading the board…
How a score is made
Points price what a thing costs to get, not how fast you got it. A guard you kick is worth more than one you shoot; a file pays once when you lift it and again when you carry it to the street. Every file in a building, and out with you, is a clean sweep on top.
The clock is deliberately cheap. There is a bonus for coming in under par, but it is small enough to stay a tiebreaker — this is a burglary, not a race, and a run that skips every door to save time will lose to one that opens them.
Files bank at the exit. Dying keeps the satchel; never getting out keeps nothing.
How the board is kept honest
A browser can claim any score it likes, so this one is not asked to. The game is deterministic — a fixed timestep, one seeded random stream, no clock anywhere in the update loop — so what you submit is your seed and your input log, not your score.
The server then replays that log through the real game, headless, and works out the score for itself. If the run reproduces it goes on the board; if it does not, it does not. Only runs the server has played through itself are ever shown here.
What a replay proves is that a score was achievable — those inputs really do produce it. It does not claim to prove a human supplied them, and is not meant to.