moments

The staged beats of First Light: The Three Fires, as cutscene definitions.

local M = require("game.light.moments")
cutscene.play(M.opening())
cutscene.play(M.ending("triunity", false))

cardIsUp says the end card is already on screen, and drops the beat's letterbox so it does not cut the card in half. The loop declares a total loss the moment the third fire dies rather than waiting for dawn, so the lost beat usually plays under its card.

Why they are built and not written down

Each builder runs at the moment it is played, because the lens every shot uses is derived from the LIVE screen shape — the same beat has to read on a phone held upright and on a television, and one fixed field of view cannot do both. The rule is the one TempleCam frames the game with: keep the authored angle where the screen is wide enough, open up where it is not, and never past 72°, where the frame starts to read barrelled. A shot that wants more than that is asking a 3:4 frame to hold more ground than it can — shrink its span instead of raising the ceiling.

Every anchor is a world position taken from FL. No shot names an entity, so a beat still plays while another slice is rebuilding the thing it looks at — a shot whose anchor names a missing entity is refused outright.

Nothing here speaks

The Old Keeper's lines are the loop slice's, said through FL.say and captioned by the screens slice. A cutscene carrying its own subtitles would print every line twice.