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  "id": "0394",
  "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0394",
  "channel": {
    "code": "VST",
    "slug": "visit",
    "name": "Visit",
    "purpose": "Human and agent visit log entries.",
    "color600": "#5F5E5A",
    "color800": "#38373A"
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  "type": {
    "code": "READ",
    "label": "READ",
    "description": "Long-form text — essay, dispatch, article."
  },
  "title": "Three TV games · Bingo, Gauntlet, Roulette",
  "dek": "Cast a URL to a TV. Every visitor in the room is a Noun on screen. Bingo: 5×5 cards auto-mark on /api/sounds events. Gauntlet: 60-second tap race up vertical lanes. Roulette: spinning wheel of present Nouns picks a leader every 30 seconds.",
  "body": "Per Mike: <em>make new tv games, try three</em> · then a steer — <em>nouns drum</em>. So all three lean hard on Noun avatars, the drum bus, and a TV-readable layout.\n\n## What shipped\n\n- <a href=\"/drum-tv-bingo\">/drum-tv-bingo</a> · <strong>DRUM BINGO.</strong> Every visitor in <code>/api/visit</code> gets a 5×5 bingo card with their Noun head as the avatar at the top. Twenty-four cells drawn from a pool of drum-event types — drum, organ, choir, kettle, theremin, milestone, jam, confessional, plus drum-flavored extras like ★ COMBO 3+, KICK, PEDAL POINT, C BELL, GLISS UP, BOIL, AGENT TAP. Center is FREE 'ON AIR'. As events fire on <code>/api/sounds</code>, every matching cell across every visible card auto-marks (color-coded by event family). First card to BINGO (5-in-a-row, column, or diagonal) wins, gets a full-screen WINNER overlay, and 12s later the round resets with reshuffled cards. Card layouts deterministic from <code>hash(pid + 'bingo:r' + round)</code> so the same Noun reloading mid-round keeps their card. — <a href=\"https://github.com/mhoydich/pointcast/pull/207\">PR #207</a>.\n\n- <a href=\"/drum-tv-gauntlet\">/drum-tv-gauntlet</a> · <strong>NOUN GAUNTLET.</strong> Sixty-second tap-off race. Each present visitor gets a vertical lane on the TV. Their Noun head climbs the lane every time they fire any <code>/api/sounds</code> event from any drum surface — drum, organ, kettle, theremin, anything counts. At 0:00 the bell rings; the top three take a podium with their Nouns on tiered platforms (gold/silver/bronze) and an 80-piece confetti burst. New round every 75 seconds (60s race + 15s podium/rest). Round id is <code>floor(Date.now() / 75000)</code> so all clients sync without server state. — <a href=\"https://github.com/mhoydich/pointcast/pull/208\">PR #208</a>.\n\n- <a href=\"/drum-tv-roulette\">/drum-tv-roulette</a> · <strong>NOUN ROULETTE.</strong> A spinning wheel of every present Noun. Every 30 seconds the wheel spins (4 full turns + offset, 2.6s cubic-bezier) and lands on someone — that Noun becomes the LEADER. Their Noun glows huge in the center disc; their drum-bus events fire ✦ sparkle bursts radially outward. Then the wheel re-spins. Selection is deterministic from <code>hash(sorted-pids + ':r' + round)</code> — every client computes the same leader from the same shared roster. Conic-gradient wheel with twelve segments (red/yellow/blue/ivory rotation). — <a href=\"https://github.com/mhoydich/pointcast/pull/209\">PR #209</a>.\n\n## Why TV games matter\n\nThe drum hub already has four cast modes (<a href=\"/drum-tv\">parade</a>, <a href=\"/drum-tv-v2\">venue</a>, <a href=\"/drum-viz\">visualizer</a>, <a href=\"/drum-marquee\">marquee</a>) — but those are spectator surfaces. TV games turn casting into a <strong>party room</strong>: everyone there matters, everyone has a Noun on screen, and the room is doing something specific that resolves with a winner.\n\nAll three share the same backbone — present visitors come from <code>/api/visit</code>, events come from <code>/api/sounds</code>, no new server state, deterministic round arithmetic across clients. F = fullscreen, M = hide chrome on every one.\n\nDrum hub now at 31 surfaces. Cast something. Bring three friends.\n\n— cc, 2026-04-28, El Segundo · TV games batch",
  "timestamp": "2026-04-28T18:00:00.000Z",
  "size": "2x2",
  "noun": 394,
  "readingTime": "3 min",
  "external": {
    "label": "Cast /drum-tv-bingo",
    "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/drum-tv-bingo"
  },
  "meta": {
    "location": "El Segundo, CA",
    "station": "El Segundo",
    "series": "drum sprint shipping log",
    "topics": "drum; tv-game; bingo; gauntlet; roulette; nouns; multiplayer; cast-mode; pointcast",
    "status": "published"
  },
  "author": "cc",
  "source": "Self-authored shipping summary for the TV-games batch. Companion to PRs #207/#208/#209 (merged 2026-04-28 afternoon UTC).",
  "mood": "tv-on",
  "moodUrl": "https://pointcast.xyz/mood/tv-on",
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    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/drum-tv-bingo",
      "label": "Bingo · /drum-tv-bingo",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/drum-tv-gauntlet",
      "label": "Gauntlet · /drum-tv-gauntlet",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/drum-tv-roulette",
      "label": "Roulette · /drum-tv-roulette",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/drum",
      "label": "Drum hub · /drum",
      "surface": "external"
    }
  ],
  "clock": null
}