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feat(input): show the right controller prompts and pause when the player's pad disconnects - #69

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Closes #46. Builds on the CodeRabbit Kit add-on vendored in #67.

How it behaves

  • Prompts match the pad in your hands. A new ControllerService autoload treats the pad that last sent input as player one. Prompts read its family: the same bottom button reads A on Xbox, Cross on PlayStation and B on Nintendo (right button: B / Circle / A; Start: Menu / Options / +). Labels come from the live InputMap bindings and update when someone picks up a different pad. With no pad connected, prompts show the keys alone ("Space", not "Space / A"). Covered: main menu footer and settings hint, runner menu, runner HUD, runner pause menu, beat 'em up menu, and both beat 'em ups' control strip, pickup prompt, pause text and REVIEW hint.
  • Disconnect pauses, reconnect resumes. If player one's pad disconnects during a game, the service sends that game its own pause action, so each mode opens its own pause menu (no tree-pause underneath it), and a banner says "Reconnect it to resume, or press Start on another controller." The same pad reconnecting, under any device id, resumes. Start on another pad also resumes, because Start is the pause toggle, and that pad becomes player one; any pad can also press the focused Resume button. A game the player had already paused stays paused, and a disconnect in a menu just frees player one.
  • Every binding answers every pad (device -1). The service widens any single-device pad binding at startup, and modes/beatem_up/catalog.gd's helper now delegates to the kit.

One fix beyond the checklist, worth a look. Godot 4.7.1 ships ui_accept and ui_cancel with no pad buttons. I checked headless: pad A did not press a focused Button. So a pad-only booth player could not confirm or go back in menus, even though the prompts said "ENTER / A CONFIRM" and "ESC / B BACK". The service binds the bottom face button to ui_accept and the right one to ui_cancel, on every pad. Side effect: during gameplay the bottom button (jump) also activates a focused button, exactly as Space (jump plus ui_accept) already does. The existing "swallow confirms while an overlay arms" guards cover both.

Tests

  • New tests/controller_service.gd, using fake pads only: route classification, an audit that no pad binding answers a single device, pad A pressing a focused menu button on pad 3, prompt switching Xbox → PlayStation → Nintendo → none (with a tracked label freeing itself), and pause/resume in Bay Area Blitz, Code City Brawl (incl. Start hand-over and Resume from another pad) and the runner, plus the menu-disconnect case. Added to the CI suite list. When test: run every suite in CI, fail on engine errors, and settle audio deterministically #40 lands, its runner discovers the suite on its own.
  • code_city_smoke: its pad-mapping presses now run with GUI focus released. The bottom button would otherwise turn the intro's focused "Next" page, as Space does, and the suite asserts "no confirm input". heroes_villains_logic: builds the expected pickup prompt instead of hard-coding "E / Y".

Verification (local, macOS, Godot 4.7.1)

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Controller prompts now reflect configured controls across menus, gameplay hints, and pause screens.
    • Menus can be controlled with any connected controller. During gameplay, disconnecting the active controller pauses the game and displays a reconnect prompt; reconnecting resumes it.
    • Another controller can take over while the active controller is disconnected.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Updated a smoke test to prevent focused menu controls from intercepting simulated gamepad input.

…yer's pad disconnects

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Booth players use whatever pads are on the table (#46). A new ControllerService
autoload, built on the vendored CodeRabbit Kit, treats the pad that last sent
input as player one:
- Prompts name that pad's buttons: the same bottom button reads A on Xbox,
  Cross on PlayStation and B on Nintendo. Labels come from the live bindings
  and update when the player picks up a pad of another family; with no pad
  connected, prompts show the keys alone. UI scripts use the preloadable
  app/controller_prompts.gd, because suites compile UI before autoloads exist.
- If that pad disconnects during a game, the service sends the game its own
  `pause` action, so each mode opens its own pause menu, and a banner asks for
  the pad back. Reconnecting the same pad resumes; Start on another pad also
  resumes (Start is the pause toggle) and makes it player one. A game the
  player paused stays paused. A disconnect in a menu frees player one.
- Godot ships ui_accept and ui_cancel without pad buttons, so pads could not
  confirm or go back in menus although the prompts said "A" and "B". The
  bottom face button now confirms and the right one goes back, on every pad.
- Every binding answers every pad: the service widens any single-device pad
  binding, and the beat 'em up's helper now delegates to the kit.

tests/controller_service.gd drives all of this with fake pads in the
platformer, the beat 'em up, the runner and the hub. Two existing suites
change: code_city_smoke releases GUI focus around its pad-mapping presses
(the bottom button now also turns the focused intro page, as Space does), and
heroes_villains_logic builds the expected pickup prompt instead of
hard-coding "E / Y".
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

A new ControllerService tracks the pad assigned to player one, updates prompts for that controller, and handles gameplay pause and resume when the pad disconnects or reconnects. Menus and game interfaces now build prompts from configured input actions. Fake-pad tests cover controller behavior.

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Controller support and prompts

Layer / File(s) Summary
Controller ownership and disconnect handling
hoppys-adventure-arcade/app/controller_service.gd, hoppys-adventure-arcade/app/controller_service.gd.uid, hoppys-adventure-arcade/project.godot, hoppys-adventure-arcade/modes/beatem_up/catalog.gd
The autoload tracks player-one assignment, installs any-device pad bindings, and handles gameplay pause and resume after controller disconnects. It also binds pad buttons for menu accept and cancel. The beat ’em up catalog uses the shared binding helper.
Controller-aware prompts
hoppys-adventure-arcade/app/controller_prompts.gd, hoppys-adventure-arcade/app/controller_prompts.gd.uid, hoppys-adventure-arcade/modes/beatem_up/*, hoppys-adventure-arcade/scenes/beatem_up/beatem_menu.gd, hoppys-adventure-arcade/scenes/main_menu/main_menu.gd, hoppys-adventure-arcade/scenes/runner/*
The prompt helper combines keyboard labels with controller button labels and tracks UI labels for updates. Menus, HUDs, pause screens, and both beat ’em ups use it for control prompts.
Controller behavior tests and CI coverage
hoppys-adventure-arcade/tests/controller_service.gd, hoppys-adventure-arcade/tests/controller_service.gd.uid, hoppys-adventure-arcade/tests/support/fake_pads.gd, hoppys-adventure-arcade/tests/support/fake_pads.gd.uid, hoppys-adventure-arcade/tests/code_city_smoke.gd, hoppys-adventure-arcade/tests/heroes_villains_logic.gd, .github/workflows/ci.yml
Fake-pad tests cover binding scope, menu input, prompt changes, disconnect and reconnect behavior, and player-one reassignment. Supporting tests adjust GUI focus and prompt expectations. CI includes the new suite.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ControllerRoster
  participant ControllerService
  participant GameScene
  participant ReconnectBanner
  ControllerRoster->>ControllerService: Report player-one role loss
  ControllerService->>GameScene: Send pause action
  ControllerService->>ReconnectBanner: Show reconnect message
  ControllerRoster->>ControllerService: Report player-one role restoration
  ControllerService->>GameScene: Send pause action if the service paused gameplay
  ControllerService->>ReconnectBanner: Hide reconnect message
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 29661

The change adds controller-aware prompts and disconnect recovery with fake-pad coverage across the games. Physical-controller behavior remains unverified, but no concrete merge-blocking failure is established.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 29661

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: hoppys-adventure-arcade

Architecture concerns
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Systems and components

  • observed — hoppys-adventure-arcade (service) was modified; 19 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

  • observed — Modified behavior in hoppys-adventure-arcade/app/controller_prompts.gd.uid: Added the resource UID uid://dhqxfnbifn5ja.
  • observed — Modified behavior in hoppys-adventure-arcade/app/controller_service.gd: Adds the controller service's input and menu-style dependencies, player-one role, gameplay and menu route lists, menu pad bindings, stick threshold, and a signal for controller-family changes.
  • observed — Modified behavior in hoppys-adventure-arcade/app/controller_service.gd: Adds the controller roster, current controller family, banner references, and state tracking whether gameplay is paused for a disconnected controller.
  • observed — Modified behavior in hoppys-adventure-arcade/app/controller_service.gd: Initializes the service to process while paused, installs menu bindings and any-device pad bindings, builds the banner, connects controller events, and creates or refreshes the player-one roster through the replaceable hardware source.

Pre-merge checks | Passed 5
✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check Passed The title clearly summarizes the two main changes: controller-specific prompts and pause behavior after pad disconnection.
Description check Passed The description provides a detailed summary, testing scope, verification results, known failures, limitations, and visual behavior. It does not use the template headings or checklist format exactly, b…
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #46 requires controller-family prompts, disconnect pause with reconnect or hand-over resume, and any-device pad bindings. ControllerService tracks the active pad, updates prompts, pauses throu…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes remain connected to issue #46. Prompt integrations, menu face-button bindings, route classification, and disconnect tests support controller behavior. The smoke-test and expected-prompt up…
Docstring Coverage Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…

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Review comments at @hoppys-adventure-arcade/modes/beatem_up/game.gd:
- Line 700: Make controller-direction text conditional on an active pad so
no-pad instructions remain keyboard-only. In
hoppys-adventure-arcade/modes/beatem_up/game.gd lines 700-700, omit “stick” when
no pad is active; apply the same change in
hoppys-adventure-arcade/modes/beatem_up/reinvent/game.gd lines 688-688 and
hoppys-adventure-arcade/scenes/beatem_up/beatem_menu.gd lines 63-63. In
hoppys-adventure-arcade/scenes/main_menu/main_menu.gd lines 263-263, omit “D-pad
/ stick” without a pad; in hoppys-adventure-arcade/scenes/runner/runner_menu.gd
lines 89-89, omit “D-PAD” without a pad.

Review comments at @hoppys-adventure-arcade/tests/controller_service.gd:
- Line 194: Update the test that calls change_scene_to_file() to set
RunnerGame’s leaderboard_path to a throwaway location before the scene enters
the tree, then remove that leaderboard file and its .tmp and .bak siblings on
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[Agent: Claude Code | Model: Opus 5.5 | Thinking: High | Acting on behalf of: Erik | Skill: none]

Addresses CodeRabbit's review of #69:
- Prompts.if_pad() returns its text only while a controller is connected, so
  "WASD / stick", "Arrows / D-pad / stick" and "↑ ↓ / D-PAD" read "WASD",
  "Arrows" and "↑ ↓" on keyboard alone, like the action prompts.
- tests/controller_service.gd instantiates the runner, points it at a
  throwaway leaderboard before it enters the tree, and deletes that file and
  its .tmp and .bak siblings at the end, as runner_smoke does.
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esthor merged commit 04aa787 into main Oct 10, 2026
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[Agent: Claude Code | Model: Opus 5.5 | Thinking: High | Acting on behalf of: Erik | Skill: none]

Brings in #64 and #69-#72. Conflicts resolved without dropping either side:
- audio_service.gd keeps main's _exit_tree() mixer wait and _stop_players()
  from #70/#71, and adds settle() alongside them.
- ci.yml keeps the runner step and adds main's Exit leaks step after it.
  The runner discovers main's new suites, so the hand list goes.
- CONTRIBUTING keeps main's exit_leak.py note in the Tests section.
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