Pressing M already opens the Home modal (which is the Mode Launcher
post-v0.11) and Tab cycles focus through the cards. The remaining
gap was direct keyboard activation of a specific mode — players had
to tab-and-enter or click. A new modal-scoped digit handler closes
that gap:
1 → Classic (NewGameRequestEvent)
2 → Daily Challenge (StartDailyChallengeRequestEvent)
3 → Zen (StartZenRequestEvent, gated at level 5)
4 → Challenge (StartChallengeRequestEvent, gated at level 5)
5 → Time Attack (StartTimeAttackRequestEvent, gated at level 5)
handle_home_digit_keys runs only when HomeScreen exists and short-
circuits otherwise — the digit keys can't accidentally launch a
mode mid-game. Locked modes (level < CHALLENGE_UNLOCK_LEVEL) silent-
no-op rather than firing a toast, mirroring the click-on-locked-card
behaviour without the InfoToastEvent (the click path's toast is the
authoritative "level too low" surface).
The HomePlugin Update tuple is now .chain()ed because the Bevy 0.18
parallel scheduler would otherwise let handle_home_card_click,
handle_home_cancel_button, and the new digit handler all queue a
HomeScreen despawn concurrently — the second buffer apply panics
on the already-despawned entity.
help_plugin gains a new "Mode Launcher (M)" section with the digit
rows and a level-5 unlock note. onboarding's slide-3 hotkey table
gets one new line ("M — Open Mode Launcher (then 1-5 to pick)") so
first-run players see the full path. The help-modal canonical list
now mirrors the onboarding teach.
Four new headless tests pin the contract: Digit1 launches Classic
and closes the modal; Digit3 at level 0 is a no-op (modal stays
open); Digit3 at unlock level launches Zen and closes; digit keys
outside the modal fire no events at all.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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