Icarus

A desktop-first app for creating and sharing Valorant map strategies: interactive map drawing, agent/ability placement, lineups, and exports.

Language

Strategy: One Valorant map plan — the top-level document a user creates, containing pages, a map choice, and a theme. This is the domain object; do not name code abstractions "…Strategy" (GoF sense) unless they operate on this object. Avoid: plan, document, project

Page: One frame of a strategy: the agents, abilities, drawings, text, images, and utilities shown at a moment in the plan. Ordered within a strategy. In user-facing video-export copy, a page shown in sequence is called a "step". Avoid: slide, scene, frame

Step duration: How long each included page is held on screen in an exported video. One global value per export. Avoid: page duration, hold time

Page transition: The animated change between two pages: widgets move, morph, appear, or disappear; freehand drawings and images fade in early. Avoid: page switch animation

Transition entry: One widget's role in a page transition — it moves, appears, or disappears. Avoid: transition item

Agent path: The curved route an agent travels along during a page transition. Avoid: movement path, trajectory

Video export: Rendering a chosen subset of a strategy's pages, in order, into an .mp4 — each page held for the step duration with full-fidelity page transitions between them. Avoid: video sequencing, movie export

Library tab: One of the three destinations in the library's title strip. My Library is the user's own strategies and folders from every store, shown together; Shared is what teammates shared with them; Community is the public space. Whether a strategy is on this device, in the cloud, or both is a badge on the strategy, not a place the user goes. Avoid: This Computer, workspace (in user-facing copy)

Lineup: A saved ability setup (position/aim reference) attached to a page, grouped into lineup groups.

.ica file: Icarus's zip-based strategy interchange format for import/export of whole strategies. Unrelated to video export. Avoid: archive (ambiguous with library backups)

Replay: A Valorant match recording (a .vrf file) that Valorant downloads from a player's career page. Icarus plays it back on the map. Replays are files, not part of the library; decoding one only fills a rebuildable cache. Avoid: demo, VOD, recording

Perspective: The team a replay is watched from. Its players are allies, the other team's are enemies, and its side each round decides which way up the map is drawn. Avoid: point of view, team view

Capture: Saving the replay's current moment as a page of a strategy: players, their facing, and the utility on the map at that instant. Avoid: snapshot, export

Op: One queued change to cloud data. An op lands when the server accepts it. Its op ID names that exact change. Changing the intended work creates a new op with a new ID; retrying the same work keeps the existing ID. Avoid: request, event

Outbox record: The durable saved form of one queued op and its delivery state, used to recover unsent cloud work after an app restart. It is not a server payload. Avoid: payload, cached request