VibeGUI

VibeGUI is a Svelte rewrite of DotGUI (the static game site in the sibling DotGUI/ directory, which was left completely untouched — verified via git status). It preserves the site's functioning, routes, and design while replacing ~110 copy-pasted static HTML pages with one small single-page app.

What it is

• Stack: Svelte 4 + Vite 5 + svelte-spa-router (hash routing), no backend, no SSR. npm install / npm run build produces a static dist/ folder (verified: clean build, zero warnings, ~66 KB JS gzip ~20 KB).
• Catalog data instead of duplicated HTML: all 104 game pages and 6 tool pages were parsed into src/lib/games.js / src/lib/tools.js (slug, filter key, tile label, image, embed URL, local-vs-external flag, catalog visibility). One GamePlayer and one ToolPlayer route render all 110 shells from that data, including the exact per-page embed URLs (local game-embeds/*.html aliases like badtime/bind/cookie included) and the 12 external fallback hosts.
• Game files served verbatim: public/ contains byte-for-byte copies of the original favicon.ico, media/ (81 files), game-embeds/ (93 files incl. the GBA-port subfolder), tool-embeds/ (pico8.html, ruffle.html), and the inlined 2 MB tool-pages/sandstone.html. No embed was rewritten, so every game behaves exactly as before.
• Routes: / gateway (old index.html), /home, /games, /tools, /settings, /disclaimer, /play/:slug (old pages/game-pages/*.html), /tools/:slug (old pages/tool-pages/*.html), /cloak/about-blank, /cloak/blob, /cloak/data-url (old launch/blob/dataurl.html). Every legacy path (/start.html, /select.html, /settings.html, /tools.html, /disclaimer.html, /launch.html, /blob.html, /dataurl.html, /start, /select) is aliased to the same component, so old bookmarks keep working.
• Features ported 1:1: tab cloaker (same localStorage key tabCloaker, so settings carry over; Google / Vocabulary.com spoofing), game live-filter with the same no-results message, game request form link, Discord link, 6 homepage quotes (one quote mentioning search was dropped with the search removal), footer credits, taskbar Back/Restart/Full Screen on players, blob launcher with the same 5 favicon presets and rt_favicon_v1/rt_title_v1 keys, about:blank launcher, and the full styles.css design (nested rules flattened into valid CSS with identical cascade order).
• Deployable anywhere as static files: relative asset base (./) plus hash routing means deep links work with zero server rewrites. Included configs: vercel.json (SPA rewrites), netlify.toml + public/_redirects (/* -> /index.html 200, also read by Cloudflare Pages), public/.nojekyll, and .github/workflows/deploy.yml (GitHub Pages: npm ci + npm run build + dist/ artifact). Tested by serving dist/ and confirming 200s for the app, an embed, and an image.

What is different / new (vs. the original)

1. Fixed dead link: the "Geometry Dash Demake" tile pointed to non-existent geodashdemake.html (404); it now opens the real page/embed.
2. Fixed broken DataURL page: it referenced an uncommitted pages/dataurl.txt and had no working button; it now builds and opens a working data: launcher tab.
3. Fixed 404 title bug: the old 404 page's cloak script set the title to "Disclaimer"; it now says 404.
4. Fixed Crossy Roads tile: its alt text wrongly said "Geometry Dash".
5. Fixed Baldi's Basics filter key: truncated to "Baldi" by a quote in the attribute; now the full title.
6. Removed all search references: the nav magnifier button, the /search + /search.html routes, the homepage note, and one homepage quote mentioning search are all gone (upstream /search.html never existed — it only ever produced a 404). The nav now has 5 buttons.
7. Surfaced 2 hidden tools: Ruffle Emulator and Soundboard existed as pages but had no catalog tiles; they now have tiles alongside the original 4.
8. 36 unlisted games stay playable via direct /play/<slug> URLs (same as before, where their HTML files existed but had no tiles).
9. Fullscreen upgraded: the taskbar now tries the Fullscreen API first and only navigates to the raw embed as a fallback (old behavior navigated away immediately); tool shells still omit the button, as before.
10. Removed Google Analytics (G-Q919W0VJ1S) and Bidvertiser ad widgets (they were on nearly every page); there is no tracking or third-party script left except the games' own external hosts and the Google Fonts import.
11. Blob launcher targets this deployment instead of the hardcoded https://dot-gui.vercel.app, and launches in one click (no download-then-open round trip).
12. Homepage trimmed: the "Search temporarily unavailable" line was removed along with everything else search-related.