A companion app that mostly automates the game 'Iron Nest' for you.
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FeNigma

Fe (iron) + enigma, we solve the geometric puzzles.

A companion app that mostly automates IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator for you. Select the game's typewriter orders (selecting text in-game copies it to your clipboard automatically) and it solves the geo puzzle and the trajectory math, handing you ready-to-fire commands: elevation, azimuth, number of powder charges. Screenshotting works the same way when a selection isn't practical. Select or screenshot the field log the same way and it picks up kills and newly-spotted units automatically. You can also plan strikes and scout flights of your own. Pure screen-reading, no game files touched, no input injected.

Showcase

What it does

  • Reads orders, solves the geometry. Copy (or screenshot) the in-game typewriter text and it parses absolute grid refs and relative bearing/distance descriptions, then resolves everything into map coordinates, chained clues ("Bearing 293 from Alpha") included. The map shows its work: the actual bearing lines/circles behind each resolved position. When a description is genuinely ambiguous (two intersections), both candidates are shown instead of guessing.
  • Calculates the shot. Every resolved target gets a live firing card: elevation, azimuth, and minimum powder charge, computed from the Nest.
  • Tracks the battle. A second copy/screenshot of the field log marks units destroyed and folds in newly-spotted contacts, merging with what's already known instead of duplicating it.
  • Plans strikes. Drop a strike anywhere on the map and pick a shell to preview its blast radius before committing.
  • Plans scout flights. Click the map to plot a scout flight's sweep path: it anchors to the large grid square you're pointing at and reads the heading off exactly where in that square you click, previewed live before you commit.
  • Watches the clipboard for you. Toggle auto-watch and every new screenshot or copied intel text gets read and merged automatically, no manual fetch between orders.

Install

./install.sh

Sets up a venv for the Python deps (Pillow, numpy, pytesseract) and checks for the system packages that pip can't install: GTK4/libadwaita bindings and tesseract. If either is missing it prints the package names for your distro and stops, install those and re-run.

Run

./run.sh

Uses the venv from install.sh if one exists, otherwise falls back to system python3. GTK apps with this app ID are single-instance, if a run gets killed uncleanly it can leave a zombie registered on D-Bus and silently no-op the next launch. If ./run.sh seems to do nothing, pgrep -af fenigma and kill any stragglers first.

Tests

pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
pytest

Regression coverage for every intel-text format the OCR pipeline understands and the solver's geometry, in tests/. Run this before trusting a change to ocr.py/solver.py, several of the formats have collided with each other in non-obvious ways before.

Stack

GTK4 + libadwaita (PyGObject) for the UI, Tesseract (via pytesseract) for OCR, Pillow/numpy for preprocessing. Details on the coordinate system, OCR formats, and solver internals live in code comments (solver.py, ocr.py, models.py) rather than here.