u/davidslv

The Rails view-layer question has consolidated. After years of churn — Arbre, Erector, the Slim and Haml DSLs, then the components debate — the community has settled, and at the same time ERB itself is being rebuilt as a first-class, HTML-aware foundation. The interesting part is not which template engine won the argument. It is why it won, and what changed underneath it to make the win durable. The community is moving toward ERB, not away from it, and the reason is a tool called Herb.

I made a free top-down stealth game with a premise I haven't really seen done: you play the person who designed the building's security.

For eleven years Margaret Vane decided where the cameras pointed, which corridors a stranger could cross unseen, and which gaps in the watching were "acceptable" — she signed off the dark places herself. Then she's erased from the record, and the game is the one night she breaks *back into* the building she once secured, exploiting the exact blind spots she drew.

So your knowledge is the mechanic. **No combat, only light and shadow** — read the patrol routes, watch the guard light-cones, and cross the gap when the arcs swing apart. It's a 23-level, three-act campaign, plus 14 standalone "field exercises" you can play in any order.

Free, plays in the browser, no download.

Curious to read your comments.

Thank you.

Game Title: Filed Under No One

Playable Link: https://filedundernoone.uk/game/play/

Platform: Browser / HTML5 — no download, plays on desktop or mobile. (caveat on mobile: needs a bluetooth controller)

Description:

Filed Under No One is a free top-down stealth game that plays in your browser, no download. You play Margaret Vane, who for eleven years decided where a secret-service building's cameras pointed and which corridors stayed dark. She reported the wrong file — and by morning she'd been filed under no one, erased from the record by the same machinery she'd spent her life running. The game is the one night she breaks back into the building she once secured, to recover the proof she ever existed — slipping the blind spots she drew herself.

There's no combat, only shadow: read the patrol routes, watch the guard light-cones, and cross the gap when they swing apart. It has a 23-level, three-act story campaign plus 14 standalone "field exercises" you can play in any order. It's also the companion to a free online spy novel of the same name, in the le Carré tradition — though the game stands completely on its own.

Free to Play Status:

• [x] Free to play
• [ ] Demo/Key available
• [ ] Paid (allowed only on Tuesdays with [TT] in the title)

Involvement: I designed, wrote, and built the whole thing solo — both the game and the companion novel.

It's a finished release, so I'm after impressions more than bug reports:
how it lands, whether the premise and the atmosphere pull you in, and how the stealth feels to play. Honest reactions welcome.

This is adapted from Chapter 1 of my book "Modular Rails: Architecture for the Long Game." It's about using Rails Engines to modularise monoliths without reaching for microservices.

Happy to answer any questions about the approach.