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Design — novolis-gaming

Game authoring above simulation

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Purpose

Libraries used when creating and shipping a game: menus, pseudonymous player identity, multiplayer lobby patterns, procedural content helpers, Windows installer scripts. Not runtime simulation, physics, or rendering.

Non-goals

  • No GameKit monolith or Frank.GameEngine.Core port
  • No Novolis.Simulation / Novolis.Raylib / Novolis.Rendering references in this repo
  • No game domain (ships, factions, GalacticSim content)
  • No PII types in public API (email, real name, provider subject strings)
  • No SignalR in novolis-transports — game multiplayer lives here
  • No live agent surface wire — that is novolis-agent (Novolis.Agent.Core / .Surface)

Dependency firewall

PackageMay reference
`Procedural`BCL only
`Identity.*`BCL; abstractions chain
`MenuFlows``Identity.Abstractions`
`Multiplayer.*``Identity.Abstractions`; AspNetCore → `Microsoft.AspNetCore.App`
`Packaging.Inno`BCL / MSBuild only

PII split

  • Platform (`Novolis.Game.*`): opaque PlayerRef, optional in-memory display names supplied by host
  • Product apps: Steam/email/GDPR, persistence, Identity Server — implement IExternalIdentityLinker and auth

Related repos

RepoRole
`novolis-commands`Commands (intent) · `novolis-agent`Agent Surface
`novolis-install`Novolis platform package installer (`novolis` global tool)
`novolis-templates``dotnet new` scaffolds (general + MonoGame)
`novolis-workflows`Shared GitHub Actions workflows for org CI/CD
`novolis-dogfooding`Integration samples

WorkflowEngine (Cron / Mapping / Messaging orchestration) is a future import into a dedicated `novolis-workflow-engine` repo — not novolis-workflows.

Backlog

  • dotnet new game templates (coordinate with novolis-templates)
  • Full Inno compile integration (invoke ISCC)
  • SignalR host migration and production auth samples
  • Dogfood infinite-runner sample using Novolis.Game.Procedural