[EPIC] Ship eight games that hold 60 FPS and play like products #2312

The 8 games are built; what is left is a handful of engine capabilities, one dev-loop cost, and adoption per game. This board replaces the 70 open boxes in #2038, which was closed as COMPLETED. Same identifiers, one line each; the original text and acceptance checks stay in #2038.

Measured state, 2026-10-22/23: six of eight games hold 60 FPS, Harbor Heat 15.1 and Drift Foundry 38.1 are the frame-cost work. Perf gate green on all eight (run 40048802446).

Loop

• A1.19 Cheap a landing to <= 90 s idle: test (i) is 94 s (run 40048802446) behind CreatorApp.sceneIo.test.ts 44-68 s. Landing queue itself is done (land hands off; land:queue is the only waiter #2296).
• A6.5 A failed dev runner build shows the error and a retry, never a blank world.

Engine capability

• A2.7 One depth-normal prepass feeding GTAO and bokeh.
• A2.8 Build-time LODs with cross-fade, tier cull distance, coarse occluder grid. Only the sim LOD scheduler exists (packages/core/src/world/lod.ts).
• A3.1 Harbor Heat to budget: 9,463 draws / 4.04M triangles measured.
• A3.3 Drift Foundry to budget: 4,282 draws / 1.64M triangles.
• A3.4 Brightway Park to budget: 2,701 draws against 1,500.
• A3.5 Ember Command to budget: 2,052 draws against 1,500.
• A3.6 Beacon Bastion to budget: 3.39M triangles against 1.5M.
• A4.2 Asset weight: meshopt glTF, KTX2 mips, hashed long-cache URLs.
• A4.3 Zone streaming with no frame over 33 ms in a cell swap; createWorldStreamer is the seam, Harbor the adopter.
• A4.4 Allocation audit to 0.5 MB/s in play.
• A4.5 Precompile must not delay the cover: +6-8 s Harbor, +10-13 s Scrap Signal.
• A5.1 Auto quality: drop a tier after 3 s over 20 ms, probe up after 30 s under 12 ms, dynamic resolution 0.7-1.0.
• A5.2 Integrated-GPU pass: 30 FPS at medium.
• A5.3 Mobile/touch pass: 30 FPS at low, touch controls, HUD fits.
• A6.1 F3 perf overlay: FPS graph, draws, nodes, programs, costliest subsystems.
• A6.2 Deterministic replay: input plus seed.
• A6.3 Runtime error and context loss show a recoverable screen; no silent black frames.
• A7.4 Instanced traffic bodies: 200 cars under 2 ms of frame cost on Harbor's graph.
• C1.3 Material library: 40+ PBR materials, triplanar, no flat world surfaces left.
• C1.6 Macro ground material for Brightway's turf, optional displacement role, library-to-surface bridge in @jgengine/assets.
• C2.2 Camera kit remainder: FOV kick, lock-on, cinematic rails. Spring arm, shake and photo mode exist.
• C2.3 Character customization seam.
• C3.2 HUD kit gaps: hit marker, crosshair states, boss bar. Damage numbers, compass, minimap, objective tracker, toasts and the radial wheel exist.
• C3.3 Inventory and loot UI gap: the drag grid.
• C4.1 Feel kit gap: decals and time dilation. Event bus, hit-stop, shake and rumble exist.
• C4.3 Adaptive music with explore, tension and combat states.
• C4.4 CC0 sound library credited in CREDITS.md.
• D5.8 Move Beacon's bank and relic draw onto packages/core/src/run, which now exists. Beacon still carries the local copy.
• C2.x foot-IK proof (filed as a second C2.2 in [EPIC] 320-hour roadmap: from prototypes to shipped-quality games (perf, systems, look, depth) #2038) One sloped-ground foot shot, the 8-game rig/IK/T-pose audit, standard rig where a game shows placeholder lumps. Foot IK PR [gaps] No joints/constraints in PhysicsWorld (hinge/distance/spring/fixed) #79 is open in jgengine-games.

Game adoption

• C5.1 Every toast expires. The self-expiring feed exists; Odd Orbit and Beacon still hold them on screen.
• C5.2 Beacon's built tower keeps its authored material, shot per tower type.
• C5.3 Odd Orbit's four members match their four portraits.
• D1.5 Money buys property and upgrades; districts unlock.
• D1.6 Harbor radio stations on the audio seam. Menu, HUD and minimap already exist.
• D1.7 District standing replaces street cred; progression/cred.ts is still the progression.
• D2.4 Two Scrap classes with skill trees.
• D2.7 Level gates the map, and discovery pays XP.
• D2.9 Talents with actives, synergies and respec.
• D2.10 Cores from salvage; prices move with purchases.
• D4.1 Supply cap on top of the gathering loop, which already hauls and deposits.
• D4.2 Tech tree and unit counters. Rank upgrades exist.
• D4.7 Research unlocks counters and armor types instead of flat damage.
• D5.1 Upgrade branches per tower. Targeting modes already exist in combat/towerAI.ts.
• D5.2 Beacon armor types and resistances.
• D5.3 Beacon mazing on the navmesh.
• D5.5 Beacon hero abilities.
• D6.5 Drift ghosts and time trials.
• D7.3 Odd Orbit build/buy mode. BuildPalette.tsx is the start.
• D8.2 Deepward enemies hunt by sound.

Closed as stale

• A1.18 Trim to eight shards and attack types - both halves measured. Eight shards cost 15-24 s on the deepest job (5f204db), so nine stand; scripts/type-shard.ts took typecheck from 59 s serial to 30 s and the types job reads 58 s. The floor is test (i), which is A1.19.
• A7.2 Title frames are cheaper than play - written off Harbor's 2.7 FPS play against a 20.4 FPS title. A7.1 fixed that loop (Scrap Signal 11.5 -> 60.0, Harbor 9.7 -> 21.7) and Harbor now reads 15.1 FPS on a bigger scene. Harbor's remaining frame cost is A3.1.

Already done (do not redo)

A1.10 publish guard (#2289 merged) - A3.2 Scrap Signal 60.1 FPS inside draws/tris/nodes - A3.7 Odd Orbit 60.1 FPS inside - A3.8 Deepward 60.0 FPS inside - A7.3 pause stops world draws (packages/shell/src/canvasCoverDraws.test.tsx) - C2.1 character pipeline merged (ragdoll + foot IK) - C4.2 audio engine (createAudioEngine) - D1.4 Harbor vehicles, damage and garage (garage-purchase.test.ts, vehicle/damage.test.ts) - D2.2 Scrap elements and statuses (status-runtime) - D3.2 Brightway ride breakdowns and queues (rides.test.ts) - D3.4 Brightway loans and ledger (loan.test.ts) - D3.5 Brightway scenarios (scenarios.test.ts) - D3.6 Brightway coaster circuit (coaster/circuit.test.ts) - D3.8 Brightway milestones (milestones.test.ts) - D4.3 Ember formations and fog (formations.test.ts, fog.test.ts) - D6.3 Drift damage (vehicle/damage.test.ts) - D9.4 Beacon ring cost, #2074 merged and the budget re-measured to 658 draws.