08/31/2026
(Want to play our new game?)
Hey I wanted to give you a sneak peak into a game we are building. Eventually it will be a multiplayer game with several maps. Currently we have single player and campaign mode. We are building the game and would appreciate any feedback! Below is the Read Me for a game we call After Earth. We might change the name but don't know yet! This is a space strategy war game and it is challenging. Check it out and let us know if you need an app built!
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(New Game Link Below)
https://titanbusinesspros.github.io/The-Universe-Game/
(Read Me)
After Earth
A single-file, browser-based space strategy game. No build step, no server — index.html is the entire game (HTML/CSS/JS embedded together). Open it directly in any modern browser to play.
Playing it
Just open index.html. There's no install, no dependencies, nothing to run first — the vector/canvas rendering, game logic, and UI are all in that one file.
Game modes
Standard Game — pick one of 12 named nations (USA, China, Russia, UK, France, Japan, Germany, India, Brazil, and others) on a galaxy of up to 27 planets. Every other nation is AI-controlled. Also present: 4 Cyborg planets, a Zoonester planet, and a Roufestreal mine-layer base — special, non-selectable hostile factions with their own bespoke AI (not the regular economy/build system below).
Campaign Mode — a scripted series of stages against a specific rival, with pre-placed garrisons and stage objectives.
Hot-seat multiplayer — 2 to 12 human players sharing one device, passing control between seats (startHotSeatGame() / switchToNextHumanSeat()). Built as groundwork for eventual networked multiplayer; the UI to actually start a hot-seat game from the menu isn't wired up yet.
Core systems
Turn-based combat + real-time economy. Turns auto-advance every 90 seconds (AI builds/moves/attacks on its turn), but mining income and research both tick continuously in real time (frame-rate independent), regardless of whose turn it is.
Resource deposits ("mines") — neutral map objects, 10,000 resources each, one guaranteed near every home planet plus more scattered across the galaxy. A Mining Ship (no weapons, no defense) parked within range of one drains it at 100/hour (150/hour with the Improved Extraction tech). AI nations use this system too, not just the player.
Tech tree — each nation's Research Lab (always building slot 0, whatever its flavor name) can research one node at a time, in real time. Currently: Mining Operations (unlocks the Mining Ship), Improved Extraction (mining-rate boost, requires Mining Operations first), and Vessel Plating (+15% HP on vessel-class ships, independent branch).
Per-nation bonuses (COUNTRY_BONUSES) — each of the 12 playable nations has exactly 3 stat-multiplier bonuses (HP/attack/speed/range on specific unit types), each shown on the country-select screen. This count is enforced by CI — see below.
Pause — single-player Standard Game and Campaign only. Not available in hot-seat, since mining/research share one real-time clock across every human seat; pausing would freeze it for everyone, not just you.
Vessel-class ships (isVessel()) are the ones that fly through open space and collide with planets, as opposed to ground units or aircraft — named "vessel" rather than "naval" on purpose, since this is a space game.
Testing & CI
Everything here runs automatically on every push to main and on every PR, via .github/workflows/regression-tests.yml. Four jobs on every push:
Job What it checks How
regression-test Game logic — unit stats, combat matchups, AI behavior, the tech tree, the mining economy, pause discipline, COUNTRY_BONUSES schema Headless, via jsdom (tests/regression-test.js) — no real rendering
visual-test Actual on-screen appearance stays correct Real headless browsers (Chromium/Firefox/WebKit) via Playwright, pixel-diffed against a committed baseline (tests/browser/visual-test.js)
interaction-test Real clicks/drags work, cross-browser Playwright, same 3 engines (tests/browser/interaction-test.js)
balance-simulation-smoke The balance simulator itself doesn't crash 1 cheap run, 10 turns (tests/balance/)
Two more, manual-trigger only (workflow_dispatch from the Actions tab):
balance-report — a full statistical win-rate report across many simulated games. Not a pass/fail gate — "nation X wins slightly more often" is a finding for a human to read, not a correctness signal.
bootstrap-visual-baseline — regenerates the visual-test baseline images from CI's own environment. Only run this by hand, only after confirming by eye that a visual-test failure is an intended change (new UI, more/less on-screen text, etc.) and not a real regression — it must run in CI, not on a developer's own machine, or font substitution alone produces false differences.
Run the core logic suite locally:
cd tests
npm install
node regression-test.js ../index.html
Two guardrails worth knowing about
COUNTRY_BONUSES schema check (tests/regression-test.js) — hard-fails on malformed bonus data (wrong type, a value like 15 where 1.5 was meant) and hard-fails if any playable nation (0-11) doesn't have exactly 3 bonus entries. A separate informational log (tests/country-bonus-count-snapshot.json) tracks count changes across every nation, including the non-playable Cyborg ones, without blocking legitimate design changes on its own.
Function inventory (tests/function-inventory.json) — auto-discovers every top-level function and class method by scanning the source, and flags (informationally) anything added/removed/renamed since the last run, plus a hard-fail check for dangling calls to functions that no longer exist.
Project structure
index.html the entire game
tests/
regression-test.js logic suite (jsdom, no real rendering)
function-inventory.json committed snapshot for the inventory check
country-bonus-count-snapshot.json committed snapshot for the bonus-count tracker
balance/ balance-simulation.js + its own test runner
browser/ visual-test.js, interaction-test.js, committed
screenshot baselines (per browser engine)github/workflows/
regression-tests.yml all 6 CI jobs described above
Ships/, Planets/, Structures/ art assets referenced by index.html
Known gaps / roadmap
No networked multiplayer yet — hot-seat is local-only groundwork for it. Firebase/backend work is tracked separately.
Hot-seat has no menu entry point yet (startHotSeatGame() exists and is tested, but nothing in the UI calls it).
The tech tree has 3 nodes so far; more are expected (new unit unlocks, defensive tech, etc.).
"Naval" terminology has been retired from the vessel-class system (isVessel()) and its UI labels, but Harbor/isHarbor/isInHarbor is still used throughout (touches save-file field names and ~80 call sites) - a deliberately deferred, larger rename.
One galaxy, one sitting. Pick a difficulty and a nation, then build up, research, and take out every other nation on the map.
