PauseMenuScreen — CanvasLayer overlay on PlayScreen, Layer=50 with
ProcessMode=WhenPaused so it stays responsive while the tree is
paused. _Ready sets GetTree().Paused=true; Resume/Close/QuitToTitle
unpause first. Two sub-states share one VBoxContainer-and-status-label
panel: main menu (Resume / ★ Level Up / Save Game / Quicksave / Quit
to Title) and slot picker. Save Game flips to the picker, click a
slot to write, back returns to main. Esc backs out of picker to main
on first press, closes the overlay on a second. CodexTheme applied
at the panel root since overlays mount outside PlayScreen's Control
tree and theme cascade doesn't cross CanvasLayer boundaries.
Level-up button surfaces only when LevelUpFlow.CanLevelUp(pc)
returns true (matches MonoGame), and is rendered disabled with a
"ships with M8" tooltip — fresh L1 characters won't see it in M7
play-tests.
Quit to Title autosaves first (matches MonoGame). A failed autosave
doesn't block the quit; better to let the user leave than trap them.
Save-from-pause writes to an internal status label inside the panel
rather than PlayScreen's save-flash toast — the toast lives on the
paused tree branch and would freeze mid-fade.
PlayScreen Esc now AddChild(new PauseMenuScreen(this)) instead of
BackToTitle. Added paused-guard + Echo filter in _Input. New public
PlayerCharacter() accessor lets the pause panel call CanLevelUp.
HUD hint updated to "F5 quicksaves · Esc opens pause".
SaveSlotFormat — shared helper between SaveLoadScreen (load picker)
and PauseMenuScreen (save picker) so both surfaces render rows with
the same prefix + in-game time + wall-clock time. Parses
SavedAtUtc, converts to local time, renders relative
(today/yesterday), short (MMM d, HH:mm within year), or full
(yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm), with "<unknown>" fallback for empty headers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SavePaths ported verbatim from Theriapolis.Game/Platform/. Same OS
directories as MonoGame (%LOCALAPPDATA%\Theriapolis\Saves on
Windows, ~/Library/Application Support/Theriapolis/Saves on macOS,
$XDG_DATA_HOME/Theriapolis/saves on Linux) so saves round-trip
across the two builds without migration.
PlayScreen save layer. Wired PlayerReputation + Flags + QuestEngine
+ QuestContext + _killedByChunk + _pendingEncounterRestore in
_Ready, even though M7.3 doesn't actively drive any of those —
they're round-trip-required, so a save written by the MonoGame
build with non-empty rep/flags/quest state loads here and re-saves
without data loss. SaveTo/BuildHeader/CaptureBody/ApplyRestoredBody
are field-for-field ports of the MonoGame methods (Phase 5 M3 + M5,
Phase 6 M2 + M4); CaptureBody flushes the streamer first so chunk
deltas land in the store before serialisation. HandleChunkLoaded
now honours _killedByChunk so a killed spawn stays dead across
chunk reload + save round-trip.
F5 quicksaves to the autosave slot. Save-flash toast (bottom-center
Label, fade-out via Modulate.A) confirms each write.
_Ready branches on session.PendingRestore: when set (load path),
calls ApplyRestoredBody and skips the new-game spawn; otherwise
spawns at the Tier-1 anchor with the M6 character. The
mid-combat encounter snapshot is captured on save but the push to
CombatHUDScreen is the M8 stub (logs a console diagnostic).
SaveLoadScreen — load-only slot picker. Header-only deserialise
per row (SaveCodec.DeserializeHeaderOnly reads just the JSON
prefix, body untouched), so opening the picker is cheap even with
many large saves. Slot label matches MonoGame's SlotLabel() format
exactly. Incompatible / unreadable rows render disabled with the
reason inline.
TitleScreen Continue. Enable-gate replaced — was "user://character.json
exists" (M7.1 placeholder), now scans SavesDir for *.trps + checks
SaveCodec.IsCompatible. OnContinue swaps to SaveLoadScreen instead
of the print stub. Manual play-test loop confirmed: F5 in run #1,
quit, relaunch, Continue → Autosave row → progress bar → PlayScreen
with character restored at saved tile.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Christopher Wiebe