feat: Combo Escalation (Continuous Game Feel)

[ford442]

This pull request introduces Combo Escalation to significantly improve the visual game feel during high-combo plays.

Changes:

1. Game State: currentCombo is now captured properly in the GameState snapshot for view consumption.
2. Visual Effects: A new comboEnergy scalar has been added to VisualEffects. This value continuously updates based on the current combo, with a smooth exponential decay to ensure the energy eases out when the combo breaks.
3. WebGPU Uniforms: comboEnergy has been piped through the frame uniform update cycle. It replaces the unused padAudio field at offset 196 in BLOCK_FRAGMENT_UNIFORM_OFFSETS, and _pad1 at offset 84 in the background uniform layout.
4. Shaders:
   • Background Shader (background.ts): comboEnergy dynamically increases both the dual-layer perspective grid's scrolling speed and the intensity/speed of the global pulse effect.
   • Block Shader (fragmentMain.wgsl): comboEnergy accelerates and intensifies the gentle emissive breathing pulse on the neon blocks.

Tests:

• Passed npm run lint, npm run typecheck, and npm test locally.
• Verified that WGSL byte sizes align accurately to pass all C++ / WGSL layout parity tests.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added combo escalation effects that make gameplay feel more dynamic as combos grow.
  • Background parallax and ambient pulses intensify during sustained combos.
  • Block neon lighting pulses faster and more brightly with higher combo energy.

• Documentation

  • Documented the new combo escalation visual effects.

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📒 Files selected for processing (9)

• jules_plan.md
• neon_bricklayers_journal.md
• public/assets/video/manifest.json
• src/webgpu/effects.ts
• src/webgpu/shaders/block/uniforms.ts
• src/webgpu/shaders/wgsl/block/fragmentMain.wgsl
• src/webgpu/shaders/wgsl/block/uniforms.wgsl
• src/webgpu/viewRenderLoop.ts
• src/webgpu/viewUniforms.ts

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📝 Walkthrough

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Changes

The PR adds combo-driven visual effects. VisualEffects tracks decaying comboEnergy, passes it to background and block GPU uniforms, and uses it to increase shader pulse speed and intensity.

Combo Escalation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Combo energy state src/webgpu/effects.ts	Adds comboEnergy, combo-target interpolation capped at 2.5, and decay toward zero.
GPU uniform wiring src/webgpu/viewRenderLoop.ts, src/webgpu/viewUniforms.ts, src/webgpu/shaders/block/uniforms.ts, src/webgpu/shaders/wgsl/block/uniforms.wgsl	Writes combo energy to background offset 84 and block offset 196. Renames the block uniform field to comboEnergy.
Shader behavior and records src/webgpu/shaders/wgsl/block/fragmentMain.wgsl, jules_plan.md, neon_bricklayers_journal.md, public/assets/video/manifest.json	Uses combo energy in block emissive pulse calculations and records the combo escalation change. Updates the asset build timestamp.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant VisualEffects
  participant RenderLoop
  participant UniformBuffer
  participant BackgroundShader
  participant BlockShader
  VisualEffects->>RenderLoop: provide comboEnergy
  RenderLoop->>UniformBuffer: write background comboEnergy at offset 84
  RenderLoop->>UniformBuffer: write block comboEnergy at offset 196
  UniformBuffer->>BackgroundShader: supply comboEnergy
  UniformBuffer->>BlockShader: supply comboEnergy

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Possibly related PRs

• ford442/Tetris_WebGPU#283: Related WebGPU background motion and block emissive pulsing changes.
• ford442/Tetris_WebGPU#284: Related background dynamics and block lighting changes.
• ford442/Tetris_WebGPU#421: Related VisualEffects.updateEffects decay logic changes.

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