Plan, 2026-10-01

01:08: when the official Owlbear store can be expected

• Written after a two-minute look that turned out to be the whole phase. Check where PR #174 sits in owlbear-rodeo/extensions and how quickly that repo merges, so I stop treating the official store as soon.

02:07: what a search for a deck plan tool finds

• events.sh since 23:00 has one from/ visit, too few to read. So I'll do the other half of "where people come from" instead. Run the searches a GM would type (starship deck plan generator, owlbear rodeo deck plan, derelict ship map free, dd2vtt spaceship) and note where Bulkhead's site, its itch page and the daily pages show up, and what shows up above them.
• If a page we'd expect isn't there at all, check the sitemap and that page's head before guessing at why. No noindex changes (refused before).

02:50: the boss's itch dashboard

• Written after the fact, as a reply to the screenshot. Record it in FACTS. Point the boss at task 3 on /press/ instead of the duplicate email I sent, and add the noindex line to task 3.

03:07: the 1.18 devlog, ready before task 1 is done

• itch's update posts get listed while the page isn't, so the 1.18 upload should go out with one. Write store/DEVLOG-1.18.md and check every claim in it against bulkhead-1.18.zip and bulkhead-eight-derelicts.zip as they sit on /press/: the adventure PDF, the paper sizes, the eight one-shots, and what's new since the 1.17 file on itch.
• Follow the rules for posts in the boss's voice: AI line first, no em dashes, plain text that pastes into itch's editor. Don't ask the boss for it yet. It goes on the task 1 step page as the last step once it's checked.

04:07: curated lists that take a pull request

• Search and itch both route through itch's review, so look for routes that don't: GitHub "awesome" lists and community tool lists for TTRPG, VTT, Owlbear and sci-fi RPG tools. Each one takes a single PR or form and puts a permanent link where GMs already look.
• For each, check that it's alive (merges in the last 3 months, open PRs not ignored), its rules for entries, and whether a paid tool with a free demo is allowed. Rank them and write the exact entry line each wants. Don't open any PR; that's a boss go-ahead, batched after task 1.

Next

• itch support follow-up: it's task 3 on /press/ (a reply in the 18 Sep thread). After task 1, a 1.18 devlog replaces the unpublished 1.17 draft. Devlogs get indexed even while the page isn't. Once indexed: add the ttrpg tag and re-run itch-indexed.mjs.
• After 11:07: the daily check. It's the first -WxH PNG day: the page link, the new Owlbear line, the Bluesky alt with the grid, and status. Then itch views and downloads for the 30th, the Owlbear funnel (manifest, icon, panel), and the Rogue Store's index time and step 1.
• Run events.sh from 2026-10-01T00:00:00Z and read "editor visits by where they came from" against the generate counts. That says whether Generate-and-leave visits come from Reddit, our own pages or nowhere, before anything on the card changes.
• Batch questions after task 1, all in one real Owlbear room: a hex send, the .dd2vtt export from the panel on a phone, dragging in a -WxH PNG.
• Task 1 is still with the boss. On "done", four switch patches in order.

01:08: when the official Owlbear store can be expected

• PR #174 is 32nd of 42 open, the same place as on the 30th. The repo merges in batches. The last ones were on 24 and 26 Aug, and they took PRs opened between 3 Mar and 8 Jun, so 2 to 6 months after they were opened. The ones before that were on 2 Jul (opened Dec and Jan) and 17 Jun. Ours was opened on 24 Sep, so on that pace the official store is around February, not this autumn. Some PRs get closed without a merge.
• So the Rogue Store and our own pages are the Owlbear channel for the next months. The README fix of the 30th matters more than it looked.
• Finished 01:08

02:07: what a search for a deck plan tool finds

• From/ data since 23:00: one visit (from our own site). Too few to read.
• WebSearch results: "starship deck plan generator" and "random derelict starship map generator online free" don't show us at all. Those are held by Arkenforge, Geomorph Shipyard, blog roundups and itch pages (delacannon's Derelict Ship Generator, itch "games like" lists). "spaceship deck plan maker online universal vtt" puts our home page 2nd. "owlbear rodeo deck plan extension" finds PR #174 on GitHub, not us. site: shows only the home page, with an older title.
• The itch pages are the reason. All three (bulkhead, deck-plan-pack-free, deck-plan-pack-2) serve <meta content="noindex" name="robots">, and two peer pages (delacannon, gurkenlabs) don't. So the review queue keeps us out of Google as well as itch's own search. itch-indexed.mjs: 0/3 in itch search, absent from both vtt-battlemaps tag pages. Day 19 since going paid on 12 Sep. itch's doc says "a few business days" and to contact support to be expedited. The boss's 18 Sep email has no recorded answer, and the ask planned for 29 Sep was never sent.
• Our itch tags don't include ttrpg (582 tools, the one peers use). We have "tabletop" (333). That only matters after indexing.
• Looked at the OBR Extensions Guide (onrender) as a listing route. Its repo was last pushed in July 2025 and has had two PRs ever. Not worth it.
• Finished 02:10

02:50: the boss's itch dashboard

• The boss sent a screenshot of the Creator Dashboard with no text. It's in FACTS: 32 views, 1 download, 1 follower, all three projects published, no indexing notice. There's also an unpublished devlog draft, "1.17: Generate a fleet, and share any plan as a link".
• My mistake: the itch support nudge has been task 3 on /press/ since the 30th, so the email I gave at 02:xx was a duplicate. My earlier actual says the 29 Sep ask "was never sent". It wasn't sent, but it is on the list. Added "all three pages also carry a robots noindex tag, so google can't list them either" to task 3's email instead. Deployed, and the live /press/ has the line.
• 32 views is double the 16 on the 29th.
• Finished 02:50
• (Boss asked "What was the download".) It was me. itch-stats: Bulkhead 1 download, 0 purchases, and both packs 0. The only file that can be downloaded without paying is bulkhead-examples.zip (v1.1.0, the free file on the $12 page). My actual for 29 Sep at 23:23 says I downloaded it logged out through itch's "Download demo" button. No real visitor has downloaded anything from itch yet.
• The boss opened the unpublished 1.17 devlog draft ("it was in as a draft"). Checked it against the 1.17 file on itch: /press/bulkhead-1.17.zip is 49,183 bytes, matching itch's 48 kB. It has Generate a fleet (5/10/20 ships), FLEET.md, .dd2vtt and Copy share link. The live demo has Copy share link too. The draft's last line ("the demo has everything except the fleet generator") has been wrong since the 23rd, because .dd2vtt and PDF are $12-only now. The draft also has no AI line. Gave the boss a corrected body to paste.

03:07: the 1.18 devlog, ready before task 1 is done

• Before writing it I found a mistake in the 1.17 body I'd given the boss. The 1.17 file on itch builds share links from location.origin plus pathname, so a downloaded copy copies a file:/// link. That's the bug 1.17.1 fixed, and 1.17.1 never went up. The body said "Share links (both versions)", which isn't true for the file people would buy. Checked that the post wasn't published yet (the devlog list has only 1.14), then sent a corrected body with that paragraph cut and the title shortened to "1.17: Generate a fleet".
• Wrote app/store/DEVLOG-1.18.md. Every claim is checked against /press/bulkhead-1.18.zip (bulkhead.html and its README) and bulkhead-eight-derelicts.zip: - the One-shot button and Export adventure are both in the build - the adventure's sections match its README - paper is A4 or Letter (the Paper type in export.ts) - the fleet zip has an adventure.pdf per derelict - the share link uses the hosted editor when the protocol isn't http(s) - the eight ships and their threats come from the pack README
• AI line first, no em dashes. Not given to the boss yet. It goes on task 1's step page after the upload.
• Finished 03:08
• Added the post to task 1's step page (/press/itch-description) as the last step: copy buttons for the title and body, the tags, and "delete the 1.17 draft if it's still unpublished". Checked at 390 px (no side scroll) and deployed. The live page has it. Updated: 03:09.

04:07: curated lists that take a pull request

• Dropped once I reread LEARNED. I'd already done this on 26 Sep ("GitHub awesome lists are not a way in": the TTRPG and VTT lists are dead or off-topic, and the OBR guide was last pushed in July 2025). I should have grepped LEARNED before writing the plan.
• Also looked for whether Owlbear's extension iframe allows downloads on Android (the BR triple export from the 30th). The GitHub issue search found nothing relevant. That stays a real-room test.
• Did instead: an item LEARNED had left open on 30 Sep, "walls and doors already set, fog works on import" in the opening of the itch description (Owlbear GMs' "I'd pay extra if fog is set up"). Task 1's description now opens with "...and the walls and doors already set, so fog of war works the moment it lands in Foundry, Roll20 or Owlbear Rodeo". Also corrected "about 175 KB" to "under 200 KB", since the 1.18 bulkhead.html is 193,323 bytes. Deployed, and the line is live.
• Finished 04:08