Replica documentation

We Become What We Behold

Local route /interactive-explanation/wbwwb/ keeps the original camera-first escalation runtime, crowd feedback loop, and replay ending while moving public provenance to the shared footer and replacing the upstream creator or supporter credits with neutral local end cards.

Open replica Open original Upstream repo

Upstream snapshot: 7c68c7e44e66b5be95ebd07d22391de707090397
Provenance and license notes remain in docs, reached through the route's visible Credits and licenses link; the original-page footer is retained.

Credits and licenses

Original game, code and art by Nicky Case, dedicated to CC0 as recorded in the retained source credits. The pinned source also includes Ali Fazeli's Persian adaptation. This local English adaptation changes the shell, text map and ending cards; it is not an unmodified original.

Sound adaptations below are retained from the upstream game, including its excerpts, encoding and playback treatment; this source import does not alter their audio bytes. Attribution does not imply endorsement.

rubber duck small 2 by ermfilm: sounds/squeak.*, CC BY 4.0.
cricket 1.mp3 by cs272: sounds/crickets.*, CC BY 4.0.
Shield Bash Impact by Hybrid_V: sounds/impact.*, CC BY 4.0; the creator's description also retains a CC BY 3.0 notice.
Meta Warp.wav by Andromadax24: sounds/bg_creepy.*, CC BY 4.0.

License links reflect the source pages retrieved on 2026-09-09, not a claim that historical licenses changed retroactively. Other sound and photograph sources remain in the README. PIXI, Howler, TweenJS and stats.js notices are retained with full third-party terms.

Font redistribution remains unverified. The file called Cairo-Regular.ttf is actually B Kamran Bold, copyright 2000 Borna Rayaneh, introduced by the upstream Persian adaptation. Cairo's SIL Open Font License does not cover this different binary. The binary and its import are excluded from this distribution. User-authorized, agent-selected rights remediation uses browser sans-serif for CSS and PIXI text, with platform-dependent glyph metrics but unchanged renderer backing dimensions, pointer mapping and mechanics. Its original blob identity is preserved in the third-party notice, not its bytes.

Reproducible adapted input: nested repository commit 5f7c6ef337e9c8935a43708147d86bdf1d68f4df, route tree 8693452d0f97ea59b251d73970cfccb9b3a3eb89, plus the reviewed shell/theme entrypoint additions and this credits link. The parent repository now vendors these files rather than pointing to an upstream-only gitlink. Source packaging is not complete-experience or legal clearance.

Source snapshot

Vendor baseline came from the published ncase/wbwwb bundle tree. The local copy keeps the original PIXI scene stack, peep behaviors, TV chyron logic, and camera capture loop while neutralizing the public credits and post-credits promo surfaces.

Live original verified against https://ncase.itch.io/wbwwb on 2026-03-10.
The shipped route uses a single explicit English runtime text map instead of the full translation bundle.
Public creator, supporter, and external-share surfaces were removed from the ending flow and replaced with a replay-only closeout.

Asset and source map

wbwwb/index.html provides the local shell, metadata, WebGL stage mount, and shared footer hook.
wbwwb/js/core/ and wbwwb/js/game/ keep the original scene manager, world, camera, and TV runtime.
wbwwb/js/scenes/ preserves the upstream preload, quote, escalation, peace, and replay structure with local cleanup in the credits scenes.
wbwwb/sprites/ and wbwwb/sounds/ remain vendored so the visual and audio pacing stays close to upstream.

Known deviations

The route ships one English text bundle instead of the original multi-language translation file.
The creator, playtester, Patreon, and external social-share scenes were replaced with neutral thank-you and replay cards.
window.SHARE_URL now resolves from the local route instead of relying on an empty or upstream-specific share target.

Reproduction notes

Vendor the published bundle first, then localize the shell and scene cleanup without rewriting the underlying camera or crowd systems.
Keep the GitHub Pages-safe relative asset layout intact; the PIXI runtime expects the original folder structure.
Run node interactive-explanation/tools/check-public-surface.mjs after touching text bundles or ending scenes because the audit scans those files directly.

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