funman300
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Player feedback after the border-drop fix did NOT close the
"gray corners" complaint: "I do not see anything change." The
border was a real artifact, but the *visible* gray came from a
different source.
Root cause: pile markers are 8%-alpha-white sprites sized to
the card area, sitting at `Z_PILE_MARKER = -1.0` beneath every
card. Composited against the dark play surface, the marker's
effective colour is ≈`#272727` — visibly gray. When a card
(rounded corners, opaque body) sits on top, the marker's
rectangular fill bleeds through the 4 small triangular regions
where the card's rounded corner curves cut away from the card's
bounding rectangle. That bleed-through is the "gray L" the
player saw at each card corner.
Fix: hide pile-marker sprites for any pile that has a card on
top. New `sync_pile_marker_visibility` system runs each Update
tick, guarded by `game.is_changed()` so the work skips on idle
frames. Iterates `(&PileMarker, &mut Visibility)` and sets
`Hidden` for occupied piles, `Inherited` for empty.
This implements the *documented* invariant declared in the
module-level doc comment ("Pile markers ... remain visible only
where a pile is empty") that was previously not enforced —
markers always rendered. Strictly speaking this is a
documentation-vs-implementation drift fix, not a behaviour
change.
### Why the border-drop fix didn't address this
The border drop changed the SVG stroke and removed *one* source
of corner artifacts (anti-aliased red/near-white stroke fading
through gray). It correctly drifted 52 face hashes. But the
visible gray at corners came from a *different* layer — the
pile-marker sprite *behind* the card, not the card stroke
itself. Right test target, wrong visible-artifact target.
Two layers, two fixes; this commit closes the second.
### Test
New `pile_markers_hide_when_pile_is_occupied` pins the
post-deal state: 8 markers hidden (stock + 7 tableau), 5
markers visible (waste + 4 foundations). 1192 passing
(+1 from prior 1191).
Workspace clippy clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Solitaire Quest
A cross-platform Klondike Solitaire game written in Rust, with a card-theme system, full progression (XP / levels / achievements / daily challenges), and optional self-hosted sync so your stats follow you across machines.
Features
- Klondike Solitaire — Draw One and Draw Three modes; foundations are unlocked (any Ace lands in any empty slot, the slot then claims that suit)
- Card themes — bundled hayeah/playing-cards-assets default plus user-installable themes (drop a directory under the data dir or import a zip from Settings → Cosmetic)
- Modern HUD — reserved top band keeps cards from crowding the score readout; the action bar auto-fades when the cursor leaves it so it can't compete with the play surface
- Drag feel — every legal drop target is highlighted in green during drag; cards cast a soft drop shadow that lifts when picked up; the stock pile shows a remaining-count chip so you can see how close you are to a recycle
- Keyboard navigation — Tab cycles focus through buttons, arrow keys move within picker rows, Enter activates; works across every modal and the HUD action bar
- Progression — XP, levels, unlockable card backs and backgrounds
- 19 Achievements — including secret ones
- Daily Challenge — server-seeded so every player worldwide gets the same deal
- Leaderboard — opt-in, powered by your own self-hosted server
- Special Modes (unlocked at level 5): Zen, Time Attack, Challenge
- Sync — pull/push stats across devices via a self-hosted server
- Color-blind mode — blue tint on red-suit cards alongside the suit glyph
Building
Prerequisites
- Rust stable toolchain (
rustup install stable) - Linux:
libasound2-dev libudev-dev libxkbcommon-dev - macOS: Xcode Command Line Tools
# Fast development build
cargo run -p solitaire_app --features bevy/dynamic_linking
# Release build
cargo build -p solitaire_app --release
./target/release/solitaire_app
Controls
Every action also has a visible UI button — keyboard shortcuts are optional accelerators.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Left click / drag | Move cards |
| Double click | Auto-move card to its best legal destination |
| Right click | Highlight legal moves for a card |
| Space / D | Draw from stock |
| U | Undo |
| H | Hint (highlight a legal move) |
| N | New game |
| Z | Zen mode |
| G | Forfeit (during pause) |
| Tab / Shift+Tab | Cycle keyboard focus |
| Enter | Activate focused button / auto-complete (when badge is lit) |
| Esc | Pause / dismiss modal |
| F1 | Help / controls |
| F11 | Toggle fullscreen |
| S / A / P / O / L / M | Stats / Achievements / Profile / Settings / Leaderboard / Menu |
Card themes
The default theme ships embedded in the binary, so the game runs
self-contained with no external assets. To install another theme, drop a
directory containing a theme.ron manifest plus 53 SVG files (52 faces +
1 back) under the platform data dir's themes/ folder, or import a zip
from Settings → Cosmetic. The picker chip lights up the moment a new
theme is registered. Themes are SVG-based, so they rasterise cleanly at
whatever resolution the window happens to be.
Sync Server (optional)
To sync stats across machines, run the self-hosted server. See README_SERVER.md for setup instructions.
Once the server is running, open Settings → Sync Backend, enter the server URL and your username, and register an account from within the game.
Running Tests
# All tests (982 passing as of v0.11.0)
cargo test --workspace
# Just game logic (no display required)
cargo test -p solitaire_core -p solitaire_sync -p solitaire_data -p solitaire_server
# Lint
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
Credits
Built on Bevy and the wider Rust ecosystem
(Tokio, Axum, sqlx, Serde, kira, and many more). Card faces come from
hayeah/playing-cards-assets
(MIT, derived from the public-domain vector-playing-cards library); the
default card back is original work; the UI font is FiraMono-Medium (OFL).
All audio is synthesized programmatically by this project. See
CREDITS.md for the full list and license details.
Changelog
See CHANGELOG.md.
License
MIT — see LICENSE.