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Four headset passes in two days, all over Air Link. They added training dummies, three new modifier gems for the bracer's spells, a socket that only takes a spell, a sword of our own, and a voice for the bracer. One piec…
Eight headset passes over five days, all over Air Link, to turn the game back toward fantasy and get it into a state I can hand to family. That meant a tutorial, runs in the Clearing instead of the sci-fi arena, enemies …
Five headset passes over three days, on my hands and what I wear on them: gloves that finally look like gloves, a bracer on my left arm that takes gems, a spell I throw from that hand, and a gem library that can hold mor…
Today was mostly spent in the headset, on two things Astra modeled: a leather glove for my hands and the fungal creatures that will live in the Fungal Hollow. Most of what went wrong was ours, not the models', and one fa…
Seven headset passes (39 to 45) over about a day, all about one idea: Nightfall should be dark enough that a light in your hand matters, and the dark should be hiding something. Here is what got built, what held up, and …
Five more headset passes (55 to 59). Four of them were about one small question, whether a whetstone should spark when you scrub it, and the last was the first build on the Quest itself in three weeks. The second half we…
In one day Astra ran four read-only code reviews of older systems: combat, the run loop and saves, loot, and the backpack. Eighteen of the findings were real bugs, each checked against the code and then fixed with a test watched failing first. The suite had been green through all of them, because it tested the arithmetic and not the order things happen in.
On 29 August we added two small files to the harness folder. .watchdog/hubprogress.json and .watchdog/itemvault.json replaced the Editor's save with a fixed one: 120 coin, eight items in the vault, no upgrades bought. Th…