# Desert Bus Westfalia Edition

Public browser tribute game for the 1979 VW Westfalia Desert Bus endurance premise.

Base URL: https://desertbus.platphormnews.com
Version: 0.1.0
Updated: 2026-05-25T07:28:48.659Z

## Product Identity
Desert Bus is the public browser tribute game. Trace, MCP, Docs, Sheets, Decks, BrowserOps, and other PlatPhorm services are integrations, not this site identity.

## Canonical Gameplay
- Route: Jerome, Arizona -> La Jolla, San Diego
- Distance: 360 miles
- Nominal speed: 45 mph
- Canonical duration: 08:00:00
- Scoring: 1 point per completed canonical run
- No pause in canonical play
- Steering pulls left; player must steer right
- Dateland milestone: mile 180

## Persistence Policy
- Local leaderboard and run history are browser-local in Phase 1.
- Server/global leaderboard persistence is degraded and future protected.
- No fake leaderboard entries are published.

## Charity Policy
- Desert Bus for Hope: https://desertbus.org/ (Outbound only. This site does not process or route donations.)
- Childs Play Charity: https://childsplaycharity.org/ (Outbound only. This site does not process or route donations.)
- Support Childs Play: https://childsplaycharity.org/get-involved (Outbound only. Support actions happen on Childs Play systems, not PlatPhormNews.)
- Unofficial fan tribute. Not affiliated with Penn & Teller, Absolute Entertainment, LoadingReadyRun, Desert Bus for Hope, or Childs Play.

## Public Access
- Public-safe gameplay, docs, discovery, health, RSS/sitemap, and read-only MCP introspection are open by default.
- Future protected actions use PLATPHORM_API_KEY only when PLATPHORM_REQUIRE_API_KEY=true.

## MCP
- GET /api/mcp returns metadata and usage.
- POST /api/mcp accepts JSON-RPC 2.0 initialize, ping, tools/list, tools/call, resources/list, resources/read, prompts/list, prompts/get.
- Tools: get_game_info, get_game_rules, get_route_info, list_milestones, get_milestone, get_leaderboard, get_local_run_schema, list_charity_links, validate_charity_links, get_story_sections, get_polaroids, get_health, get_info, get_route_compliance, get_discovery_compliance, create_docs_report, create_sheet_report, create_deck_summary