RCWeb Spacewar Control App

The RCWeb Spacewar Control App (app/spacewar-control) is the dedicated web peripheral designed for the base spacewar arcade shooter, operating strictly in the Asymmetric Pattern.

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What it does

• Retro Three-Button Interface: Strips the smartphone interface down to a classic arcade cabinet layout featuring dedicated "Left", "Right", and "Fire" digital push-buttons.
• Tactile Firing: Leveraging native device APIs, hitting the Fire button or steering triggers localized vibrational pulses directly on the user's phone for physical confirmation of successful network transmissions.

How it works

The logic deliberately avoids continuous vector broadcasting, relying instead on state-change event triggers within script.js.

• Event Short-circuiting: DOM controls (mousedown, touchstart) strictly execute e.preventDefault() to lock the mobile viewport, preventing accidental pinch-zooms or pull-to-refresh gestures during intense button mashing.
• State Booleans: To prevent flooding the WebSocket pipeline with redundant "I am turning left" packets every millisecond the button is held, it relies on static booleans (rotatingLeft, rotatingRight). It fires a single rc.sendFunctionCall(..., 'left') command once when depressed, and a singular 'forward' release command when the finger is lifted.
• Haptics Pipeline: Implements defensive vibration coding (if ("vibrate" in navigator) navigator.vibrate(period)) to trigger physical hardware rumbles natively via the browser engine upon aggressive input logic, bypassing the server entirely for feedback.

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