sound and other misc fixes

main.lua

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ require "_helpers"
 require "input"
 require "profiler"
 require "color"
+require "sound"
 require "room"
 require "world"
 require "world_seed"
@@ -26,6 +27,13 @@ narrator = require "narrator.narrator"
 startSignBook = require "stories.start_sign"
 jorgeBook = require "stories.jorge"
 
+-- DEV/DEBUG mode. When on, the level editor is available and rooms with no
+-- player copy present still render every channel, so whole levels stay visible
+-- instead of a black screen. Turn it off for a player-facing build; both the
+-- editor and that all-channels fallback then disappear. Override at launch with
+-- the DEBUG env var (DEBUG=0 to force off, DEBUG=1 to force on).
+DEBUG = os.getenv("DEBUG") ~= "0"
+
 function love.load()
 	globalAssetProperties = {} -- rebuilt from the filesystem (art/ + .meta) by getAllAssets
 
@@ -95,9 +103,9 @@ function love.draw()
 	love.graphics.setCanvas(gameCanvas)
 	love.graphics.clear()
 	love.graphics.setBlendMode("screen")
-	if editorView == "world" then
+	if DEBUG and editorView == "world" then
 		gameWorld:draw()
-	elseif editorView == "wire" then
+	elseif DEBUG and editorView == "wire" then
 		gameWorld:drawWireEditor(wireEditorCamera())
 	else
 		currentRoom:draw()
@@ -127,17 +135,20 @@ function love.draw()
 	-- Render the sidebar at native panel resolution: the canvas is panel-sized,
 	-- and editorDraw works in the fixed virtual space, scaled up by a transform.
 	-- Blitting the canvas 1:1 afterwards means no rescaling of the final image
-	-- (crisp, nearest-neighbor throughout — nothing is averaged).
-	love.graphics.setCanvas(sideBarCanvas)
-	-- The gameplay view now intentionally extends beyond its old room bounds.
-	-- Keep the editor panel opaque so that neighbourhood preview never shows
-	-- through empty areas of the UI.
-	love.graphics.clear(0, 0, 0, 1)
-	love.graphics.push()
-	love.graphics.scale(editorRenderScale, editorRenderScale)
-	editorDraw()
-	love.graphics.pop()
-	love.graphics.setCanvas()
+	-- (crisp, nearest-neighbor throughout — nothing is averaged). The editor is a
+	-- DEBUG-only surface, so skip the whole panel in a player-facing build.
+	if DEBUG then
+		love.graphics.setCanvas(sideBarCanvas)
+		-- The gameplay view now intentionally extends beyond its old room bounds.
+		-- Keep the editor panel opaque so that neighbourhood preview never shows
+		-- through empty areas of the UI.
+		love.graphics.clear(0, 0, 0, 1)
+		love.graphics.push()
+		love.graphics.scale(editorRenderScale, editorRenderScale)
+		editorDraw()
+		love.graphics.pop()
+		love.graphics.setCanvas()
+	end
 
 	-- Collect every visible layer before the accessibility pass.  Applying the
 	-- shader here also covers the editor sidebar, FPS display, and dialogue,
@@ -147,7 +158,7 @@ function love.draw()
 	love.graphics.setBlendMode("alpha")
 	love.graphics.setColor(1, 1, 1, 1)
 	love.graphics.draw(finalCanvas, 0, 0)
-	love.graphics.draw(sideBarCanvas, sideBarBox.x, sideBarBox.y)
+	if DEBUG then love.graphics.draw(sideBarCanvas, sideBarBox.x, sideBarBox.y) end
 	love.graphics.print("Current FPS: "..tostring(love.timer.getFPS( )), 10, 10)
 	PerfProfiler:draw()
 	Dialogue.draw()
@@ -208,6 +219,9 @@ function love.keypressed(key)
 	-- 	worldSha = worldSha - 1
 	-- end
 
+	-- Editor text-field controls (room-name entry etc.): DEBUG-only.
+	if not DEBUG then return end
+
 	if key == "return" then
 		response = ""
 		editorCompleteResponse()
@@ -225,24 +239,31 @@ function love.keypressed(key)
 	end
 end
 
+-- Every mouse/text callback below only ever drives the editor, so they are
+-- inert outside DEBUG: a player-facing build is keyboard-only.
 function love.mousepressed(x, y, button)
+	if not DEBUG then return end
 	editorMouseHandler(x, y, button)
 end
 
 function love.mousemoved(x, y)
+	if not DEBUG then return end
 	editorMouseMoved(x, y)
 end
 
 function love.mousereleased(x, y, button)
+	if not DEBUG then return end
 	editorMouseReleased(x, y, button)
 end
 
 function love.textinput(t)
+	if not DEBUG then return end
 	response = response .. t
 	editorTextHandler(response)
 end
 
 function love.wheelmoved(dx, dy)
+	if not DEBUG then return end
 	-- Scroll the editor's asset/folder list when the cursor is over the sidebar.
 	if editorView == "room" and love.mouse.getX() > width then
 		editorScrollRoomList(dy)
@@ -358,6 +379,8 @@ function cycleAccessibilityMode()
 end
 
 function _initSounds()
+	Sound.init()
+
 	staticWave = sfxr.newSound()
 	staticWave.waveform = sfxr.WAVEFORM.NOISE -- was `wavetype = 3`; field renamed in this sfxr
 	staticWave.frequency.start = .1