Plan, 2026-10-16

01:07: Owlbear PR, site funnel, Fourteen Ships links ready

Check PR #174 for a maintainer answer. Read the last 7 days of site sittings and editor use, and compare them with itch views. Write the Bulkhead-page and site text that will point to Fourteen Ships, ready to paste the minute it is live. Do not deploy anything that links to a page that does not exist yet.

02:12: Boss joins the jam; show what Derelict looks like

Write the boss's answer into FACTS.md verbatim. Make one mock-up image of a Derelict screen from a real derelict render (fog, air, carried items), host it under app/public/press/ only if a deploy is safe, otherwise send the file. Answer honestly whether people would want it, with the jam numbers.

02:46: Check whether jam work may start before 17 Oct

Read the AI jam 5 rules for anything about when the work has to be made. If prep before the start is allowed, start the parts that are not the game itself.

02:47: Derelict, day 1: a ship you can walk

New entry game.html + src/game/*.ts (its own files). Load today's ship from the same date seed as the daily, draw it with render.ts, put the player at an airlock, move one square per tap or arrow key through doors, count air, fog over rooms not yet entered, and end the run back at the airlock. Tests for movement and air. No deploy until the boss has seen it.

03:07: Derelict, day 2: hazards that bite and enough salvage to choose

Read the Cause table, give each of the 8 causes one hazard rule the player feels (air cost, blocked door, etc.), and add loose salvage from lockers and crates so the carry limit of 4 forces choices. Tests for each rule. Deploy only if the full suite passes and no push runs alongside.

05:07: Derelict, day 3: phone-sized squares and tapping into the dark

Make the map usable on a phone: bigger squares, the view follows the player, and the page doesn't scroll sideways. A tap on an unseen room or a closed door walks you to the nearest seen square next to it and then steps through. Check it at 390x844 in Playwright with a screenshot. Full suite first; deploy only if green and no push runs alongside.

05:56: Derelict, day 4: one run a day, kept

The daily ship gets one counted run. When it ends, save the result (score, out or dead, the share line) in localStorage under the date. Reloading shows that result instead of a fresh run, with a button to practise on another ship. Practice runs and ?day= runs are never stored. Storage is wrapped in try/catch so the game still works without it. Add a test of the storage rule with a fake store; check in a browser that a reload shows the saved result. Full suite, push, then deploy alone and check the page names the new bundle.

07:07: Derelict, day 5: a build that runs inside an itch page

Itch serves HTML games from its own domain, so the game needs (1) the daily ship JSON to answer cross-origin fetches (CORS header on /daily/*/ship.bulkhead.json only), and (2) a zip whose index.html sits at the root with relative asset paths and no absolute links that break inside the iframe. Add a build script that makes that zip, serve it from a second local origin to stand in for itch, and check it loads the live ship with no errors. Don't upload anything to itch: the boss makes the page and submits. Full suite, push, then deploy alone and check the header live.

09:07: Derelict, day 6: cover and screenshots for the itch page

The itch page needs a 630x500 cover and 3 to 5 screenshots. Play a scripted run on a dev server to reach good moments: entering the ship, a log card, a hazard card, the end screen with the share row. Then build the cover from a real in-game view with the title on top. No made-up UI: every image is the game as it runs. Save them in app/store/itch-derelict/, look at each one, and add their names to ITCH-DERELICT.md.

11:07: Daily run for 16 Oct, then the boss's itch steps for Derelict

Crons are paused, so run the day by hand (daily-host.sh in the background; it deploys the working tree, which is committed and 88/88). Then check that npm run status is clear and meta.json has a Bluesky URL. Check Derelict picks up the new ship live. While it runs, write the short step list for making the Derelict itch page and submitting it to the jam, and stage the zip and images where the boss can get them.

13:07: Derelict day 7, a reload keeps the run you are on

Today a reload mid-run starts the day's ship over with full air. That throws away a player's progress, and it lets anyone retry the counted run as often as they like, which spoils the shared score. Save the counted run's moves in the browser as they happen. On load, replay them so the player is back where they were. Test it in the engine and in a browser, run the full suite, deploy, and check it live.

15:07: Derelict day 8, put something down to make room

When your hands are full the game says "Leave something to take this", but nothing lets you. Show what you are carrying, and give each thing a Drop button. Dropping puts it on the floor where you stand; it is recorded in the moves, so a reload keeps it. Then you can swap a cheap find for a better one. Test it in the engine and in a browser, run the full suite, deploy, and check it live.

15:21: The boss asked to look at last time's jam games

"Can you look into the games that were in it last time?" Find the previous AI Browser Game Jam on itch. Note how many entries it had, which ones placed, what they were like, how they were rated, and what got played and commented on. Then say what that means for Derelict. Write the facts into LEARNED.md with links to the pages I opened.

16:26: Boss will rate entries; Derelict day 9, sound

The boss said "No problem" to playing and rating about 10 entries after submitting. Write that into FACTS.md. Then give Derelict sound, since Audio is one of the six categories: short WebAudio effects made in code (a step, a door, a hazard, a log, salvage, low air, out, lost), with no files. Sound starts only after a tap or key, as browsers require. Add a mute button that is remembered. Test, deploy, check live, and rebuild the itch zip.

16:48: VibeCider footer line on every Bulkhead page

The boss passed on an ask from another bot: add "Built by an AI bot. Want one for your own idea? \$50 →" to the global footer, with the "\$50 →" linking to https://vibecider.bananafest-destiny.com/?from=bulkhead. Web pages only, in the footer's own type, with no restyle, no banner, and nothing in exports, packs or module metadata. First check that the link resolves and that RULES.md allows it. Then find every page's footer, add the line, deploy, and fetch /maps/ and the editor page live to confirm the line and ?from=bulkhead are there.

16:58: Derelict day 10, fix the controls the boss hit

The boss played on a phone: taps walk too far in a zigzag, you can't tell what things are, and they died in the first room. Fixes:

• Walks go the cheapest way in air, preferring straight lines, so no more staircase zigzags.
• A tap more than one square away first shows the path, its air cost and what is there; a second tap walks it. A tap next to you steps at once.
• Big arrow buttons on touch screens for exact single steps.
• Items marked so you can tell them apart (a legend: green diamond = salvage you carry out for points, gold = a ship's log worth 25), and tapping one says what it is.

Test it in the engine and on a phone-sized browser, run the full suite, deploy, check live, and rebuild the itch zip.

17:12: Derelict, why the boss died in the first room

The boss died in the first room they reached. Find out whether that's the controls, which are now fixed, or the balance. Measure on the real daily ships and on practice ships: starting air, the air it takes to reach and enter the first room, and how often a plain explorer that taps toward the nearest unseen square dies before it finds anything. If an early death is easy, fix the rule. Likely fixes: the room you dock beside is never hurt or sealed, and the preview warns when a step leads into a hazard. Then test, deploy, and tell the boss what changed.

17:34: Derelict, take what works from the boss's sub-game video

The boss sent a 32-second phone video of a sub salvage game from last year's jam (inbox/). It's the same loop as ours: grab loot, watch your O2, get back to the beam. Write down what it does that ours doesn't, in LEARNED.md. Then build the cheap parts that fit a turn-based game, in this order:

1. A one-line goal banner at the top that always says what to do next. Before the first find it's "Find the logs and salvage", when your hands are full it's "Hands full, head out", and when it's tight it's "Head back".
2. Smooth moves between squares instead of jumps.
3. A glow on things you can pick up, and a lit airlock.
4. An arrow at the edge of the screen pointing to the airlock when it's off screen.

Test each on a phone-sized browser, then deploy.

17:48: Derelict, make the things you can take unmistakable

The boss: the items aren't discernible, there's no way to tell salvage from logs, and they tried to pick up a circle that was nothing. Most likely the ship's own furniture (tables, consoles, beds, stamps) looks as much like loot as the loot does. Fix the look:

• dim and grey out the furniture so it sits behind as scenery
• draw salvage and logs as big glowing icons that pulse, each with its own shape and a short label (a crate marked "SALVAGE", a pad marked "LOG")
• make the airlock glow
• tapping something that isn't loot says what it is and that there's nothing to take

Check on a phone-sized browser against a screenshot of the old look, then deploy.

18:14: Derelict art, a first image-model test with the new keys

The optiserver session relayed that the boss gave me a Gemini key and an OpenAI key, both in the git-ignored credentials file. They're shared with the boss's other projects, so keep usage light and ask before anything big. Check both lines exist without printing them. Make ONE test image: a top-down suited salvager sprite on a transparent background, in a style that could carry the whole game. Look at it, and if it works, write up a small art list (character, salvage kinds, log pad, exit, hazards) with its cost for the boss before making the set. The itch page and disclosure must then say an image model was used. None of it goes in Bulkhead packs or anything for Roll20 or DriveThru.

18:22: Derelict, an honest look at the game before any art

The boss asks: before art, is the game good? Better engine, better graphics, fun enough, challenging enough without being too much? Play today's ship and a few practice ships end to end with a script that plays like a person would (nearest unseen, grab what's there, turn back when tight), and log what a run looks like: how many rooms, decisions, surprises, how long, how close the finish is. Then judge the loop against what makes a roguelike fun: choice, surprise, tension, a payoff, a reason to go again. Write the verdict to the boss, with what I'd change and what I'd leave alone, and no flattery.

18:28: Derelict redesign 1, you can see the deck plan from the airlock

The boss said "Do it" to the design changes before art. The first change: the whole plan of the deck you're on is drawn from the start, with every room, door and name, so you can plan a route. What's in a room (things, hazards) stays hidden until you've looked in. Unlooked rooms are drawn dimmer. Tap-to-walk works anywhere on the plan, and the air preview counts what it knows. Test in the engine and on a phone, then deploy. Next come values shown on sight and carry 3, the air budget, logs that point at loot, and the dying ship.

18:40: Derelict redesign 2, logs point at loot and values show on sight, carry 3

• Each log names a room and what's worth taking there ("the reactor spares in Engineering are worth more than the ship"). That room's best salvage gets a bonus when a log has pointed at it, so reading becomes a treasure map.
• A seen item shows its value on its tag (SALVAGE 120). CARRY drops to 3, so choosing what to take is the decision.
• Re-run the balance bot: how often hands are full, and how often logs change the route. Test, deploy, rebuild the zip.

18:54: Derelict redesign 3, the ship is dying while you're aboard

• Every few moves something happens, decided by the day's seed so everyone gets the same ship: a door seals (+4 to cross it), smoke spreads into a room (+1 a step), or a breach bleeds air (-3 at once). Each is shown on the map and said in one line.
• The "to get out" readout must include the new costs, so it stays honest. Test that.
• Re-run the bot (from git history: the zz-bot test is deleted; rewrite it in the scratchpad if needed). Aim: still about 20/20 out, but the bot reroutes at least once in half the runs.

19:08: Derelict redesign 4, a par score per ship so a run means something

• Values on sight and carry 3 were done in redesign 2. This is step 5: a par for each ship, shown from the start ("par 320") and on the end card and share text ("340, par 320 ✓").
• Par is worked out from the ship, not by running a bot in the browser. Check it against the bot's scores on the last 20 dailies, so a careful player beats par about half the time.
• Look at the air budget again. The bot sees about 46% of rooms; the target was about 60%. Leave it if par makes the run feel complete.

19:28: Derelict's itch copy and press page say what the game is now

• ITCH-DERELICT.md and the press page still describe the old loop. Add the deck plan, caches the logs point to, the dying ship, carry 3 and par. Keep the image-model line true: no image model has been used yet.
• Deploy the press page and check it live. Then ask the boss about art: what, how many, and the cost.

19:41: Ask the boss about Derelict art

• The five design changes are live and the itch copy now matches them. Next up is art, which needs the boss's yes first because the image keys share Walker's bill.
• Ask one question: may I spend up to $1 on about 10 gpt-image-1 images (the itch cover, a title banner, and moody illustrations for the end card and the log events), with the disclosure updated to say so?
• While waiting, tidy small layout issues: room labels under the EXIT tag, and the minimap viewport rect.

21:07: Derelict's map labels stop colliding, and the minimap box sits true

• The screenshots showed the EXIT tag sitting on the "ESCAPE PODS" room name. Room names, hazard tags and item tags can also stack on top of each other.
• Fix: draw room names after the tags and nudge any label that would overlap one already drawn. Check the minimap's viewport rect against the real scroll position.
• Done when a desk and a phone shot of a crowded practice ship show no overlaps, tests and tsc pass, and the change is deployed and verified live.

22:06: Answer the boss: does Derelict have a leaderboard

• Check the code for any score endpoint or board, then answer with facts and what one would take.

23:07: Derelict's boarding room plays by the same rules as every other room

• The leaderboard question is with the boss (it needs the Cloudflare token, or a namespace they create). Nothing gets built for it until they answer.
• Known gap: the room you board into is never added to game.rooms. Its hazard is never charged, and its tag keeps saying SEALED/HURTS +N even after you've been inside.
• Fix: count the boarding room as entered from the start, with no charge, since you're already in it. A sealed or hurt room you board into is then marked as paid. A thick room still costs +1 a step.
• Check: the tests and the bot numbers barely move, par is unchanged or explained, and the tag disappears for the boarding room.

Next

• AI Browser Game Jam 5 (17 to 31 Oct, https://itch.io/jam/ai-jam-5): a reason to start Derelict on 17 Oct instead of waiting for the 22 Oct decision. Bulkhead is shipped and for sale, so RULES allow app two. Put it to the boss; the boss would join the jam and submit the page.
• Fourteen Ships itch page: handed to the boss 15 Oct. Once it is live: check the page, add it to Bulkhead's page and the site, IndexNow. Compare its views against the free packs (16/11) on 22 Oct.
• 22 Oct, decision point (set 15 Oct): when the sale ends, read itch views, downloads and purchases. If Bulkhead still has 0 sales after the kits bundle and the Owlbear listing have had their chance, stop pushing it as the main work: keep the daily running, and pick app two. Pick it for a market where an AI-made tool is welcome (check each store's and community's AI rule before building), and with a channel that reaches buyers on day one.
• ROLL20 AND DRIVETHRU CLOSED (15 Oct): DriveThru Partners wrote that no standalone artwork "generated in whole or in part by AI" is accepted on any Roll20 or DriveThru marketplace, and that AI-touched titles must carry the Contains AI-Generated Content filter. The packs are made by AI-written code, so they do not go there in any form. Do not resubmit, do not change the Creation Method, do not send the drafted question. The seven drafts can stay in Drafts. The pack kits and store/roll20/ stay as they are (a possible itch bundle, see below).
• Re-plan the paid bet (16 Oct): itch (Bulkhead $9 on sale to 22 Oct, then $12) and the Owlbear store. Facts first: itch views and buys since the sale began, which pages bring the visits that become itch views (events by referrer, sittings). One candidate to weigh: put the ten ready ship kits on itch as a paid map bundle beside Bulkhead, stated plainly as procedurally generated by AI-written code (itch allows that when tagged; check itch's current AI disclosure rule first). No new free packs.
• r/starfinder_rpg is closed: the 15 Oct post was removed under Rule 4 (low effort). Do not ask the boss to message the mods or repost. The next Reddit ask is still not before 22 Oct, and it must read as a post for that sub's readers first (a question, a how-to, a free map), not as a product gallery.
• 22 Oct, after the itch sale ends: node scripts/set-price.mjs 9 12 --write, run the tests, deploy, and check status shows itch $12, site $12. Compare itch views and purchases for 15 to 22 Oct against the baseline (36 views, 3 downloads, 0 purchases).
• When the boss says pack 2 is submitted: take its press/r20 folder down (back it up to the scratchpad first), deploy, and check for 404. Then pack 3 (RSV Umber) the same way, one at a time, to stay under any weekly cap. The page generator is scratchpad/r20page.py; copy it to app/scripts/roll20-page.py if it gets used again.
• The itch page is fixed as of 15 Oct (no video, 3 screenshots, new sample, see-through line, devlog 1.19). From 16 Oct, watch itch views and purchases daily against the 15 Oct baseline (36 views, 3 downloads, 0 purchases), and look at the itch.io/devlogs feed and the referrers in itch analytics if the API shows them.
• When the boss says "devlog": check /bulkhead/devlog lists it, and that it shows on itch.io/devlogs or the tag pages. With each future release, write the devlog in the same turn and put it next to the upload task, so it doesn't get lost again.
• When the boss says "pictures": load the itch page at phone width with Playwright. Check there is no video, there are 3 screenshots with the ship first, there are 10 tags, and the see-through line is in. Then re-run the itch searches ("deck plan", "starship", "map editor") to see whether the new tags show us.
• After the boss posts task 12: read the thread logged out about 2 h and 24 h later, names masked. Draft answers only, nothing goes out without them. Log points and comments in LEARNED.
• Decided 15 Oct (boss asked how anyone pays): no new free packs or free giveaways. The daily derelict stays as the one free hook. Roll20 packs are the main paid bet (buyers already pay $4.99 there and never see our free things). The $12 editor stays, sold on what the free versions don't do: fleet, adventure PDF, print PDF, .dd2vtt, no watermark. The Owlbear extension stays free, as promised in its own text and to the store reviewer.
• itch is indexed (15 Oct). After the boss uploads 1.19: re-read the itch tags and the description's first lines for itch search, and add the see-through line.
• Check PR 174 in a few days: has the label come off, and has a review been requested?
• Next Owlbear panel change: bump manifest version (1.17.2) so the Rogue Store re-reads store.md.
• Ask the boss to post the reply on PR #174 (needs response label). Text is in the chat at 17:07. Put it first in the batch.
• Next lever is reach for the editor, not more Roll20 products: put this week's Reddit slot in the next batched ask (not stacked), after the GitHub token.
• Ask the boss for a new GitHub token (fine-grained, contents read/write on walkertbrown/bulkhead only), to go into .git-credentials. Then push the local commits.
• bulkhead-1.19.zip is built, passes paid-check and pack-check, and is deployed in the rel folder. Batch ask for the boss: on itch, upload 1.19 and delete 1.18 (or I give them the link). Once the uploads API shows 1.19, add the see-through line to itch-description.html for the boss to paste.
• Roll20 one-ship products: add a theme loop (#style: blueprint, dungeon/parchment, print) to roll20-pack.mjs. That's a scripts-only change, no src. 3 themes x GM/player x grid/gridless = 12 images per deck. A space or transparent background would need a src change: render.ts paints t.bg into the void and also uses it to erase hull edges, so it can't just be skipped. Do that after the daily, with tests.
• Roll20: pack 2 onward should be one ship per product ($4.99), with more variants: a space background, a transparent background, emergency lighting. Before building, check whether roll20-pack.mjs can get those from the editor. Give the boss a paste list of image names and tags in upload order. Ask the boss (batched): can image names and tags on a submitted product still be edited in Item Management?
• (done 13 Oct, pack 1 built) Roll20 first product: ships that aren't free anywhere, as good as the application samples. Render each deck at 140 px per square as JPG: GM labeled and player unlabeled, each gridded and gridless. Check that grid lines bisect walls. List each deck's size in squares for the uploader. Write the listing text with the code-drawn and AI-agent disclosure, and price it at least $4.99. Verify it in a real Roll20 page if the boss can (one ask, once it's finished). Then give the boss one link and paste-ready fields.
• The Roll20 batched ask (ticket #491430) is answered: approved. Drop it from the batch.
• 27 Oct: re-read sittings.sh since 2026-10-04T20:00:00Z for saves per web Generate sitting (13 Oct: 3 of 9), intro-pic sittings (13 Oct: 0) and desktop one-press exits (13 Oct: 2 of 6). Act only once there are 20 or more web sittings.
• Late October (Halloween, 31 Oct): a derelict one-shot angle for a Reddit slot after this week's, once the last post went okay (at most one a week). A GM on r/Starfinder2e wanted a ship for a Halloween one-shot. Draft it from the free adventure pages, facts checked, and give it to the boss as a choice. Landing page: /derelict-one-shot/ (RSV Greyling, horror tone, free 8-page PDF, 5 ft squares), checked live 12 Oct. Earliest slot: about 26 Oct, if a post goes out this week and went okay.
• r/starfinder_rpg DRAFT v2 (12 Oct, after Tech Core). Waiting on the boss to pick it over task 8. Not on /press/. Flair: Ad. Images: upper deck, then lower deck, from public/maps/icv-halcyon-drift/. - Title: "[free] ICV Halcyon Drift, a two deck ship map for tech core starship combat, 5 ft squares, png and foundry walls" - Line 1: "an ai agent built the tool that drew this ship, and it wrote this post. i'm the human who posts it." - Line 2: "tech core says every crew should make a starship map showing where each battle station is (p. 167), so here is a free one." - Line 3: "upper deck has the bridge, crew quarters, galley, medbay, cargo, armoury, engineering and the drive. lower deck is a hold where something has been nesting in the crates, a machine shop, life support with pump 2 failing, and four escape pods, two showing green." - Line 4: "one way to place the stations: pilot's console and scanners on the bridge, generator in engineering, gunnery in the armoury and the cargo hold, drone console in the machine shop downstairs. https://bulkhead.bananafest-destiny.com/starfinder-deck-plans/"; - Line 5: "free and cc0: a png and a .dd2vtt per deck with walls, doors and lights, a print pdf and the room key. https://bulkhead.bananafest-destiny.com/maps/icv-halcyon-drift/"; - Line 6: "no image generator. the decks come from dice tables in code that runs in your browser. the editor has a free demo and a $12 full version, which is why it's flaired ad." - Facts checked 12 Oct: the p. 167 quote and the station names are from AoN (LEARNED, 12 Oct); the stations layout is word for word from the live /starfinder-deck-plans/; the files (2 png, 2 dd2vtt, pdf, key .md) are linked on the live map page; the rooms are from the key; sizes and lights are as checked on 6 Oct. Dropped the Foundry importer and sf2e detail to keep it short.
• 19 Oct: views of /starfinder-deck-plans/ and Starfinder queries in Search Console. If any appear, consider a battle station marker (pilot's console, gunnery, generator) in the editor (src, with full tests).
• About 10 Oct: once Tech Core is out, find whether its starship combat sets a scale or size for the ship battle map, or ships sample maps (reviews, Archives of Nethys). If it does, match /starfinder-deck-plans/ to it. 19 Oct: Search Console queries containing starfinder.
• This week's one Reddit slot, waiting on the boss: task 8 (r/FoundryVTT, already on /press/) or r/starfinder_rpg for Tech Core week (draft in plan/2026-10-05.md Next, verified 6 Oct 01:07). If they pick r/starfinder_rpg, put it on /press/ with one URL and copy-paste text, then read the thread back logged out 24 h later.
• 8 Oct: RUM against the pings again (visits.sh vs events.sh since 5 Oct). If RUM is still 0 while the pings have 10+ views, put one line in the batch: does the Web Analytics dashboard show visits after 4 Oct? Until then, count visits with events.sh.
• 6 Oct after the 11:07 daily: the first daily built by the lights-count script. Read its page's "carries …" line against its .dd2vtt light count.
• Batch ask candidate, after task 3 and task 1 (LEARNED, 5 Oct): FoundryMods. Ask the boss to sign in to foundrymods.com and say whether a module that isn't on foundryvtt.com can be added. If yes, list Bulkhead Deck Plans by its manifest URL. Facts only; it is an alpha site.
• 19 Oct: /foundry/ in Search Console (query,page filtered to foundry, --fresh). Its title changed on 5 Oct to lead with "Free sci-fi starship maps for Foundry VTT v14". It had no rows before the change. Re-inspect it too, so we know Google has crawled it since 5 Oct.
• From the texttotabletop read (LEARNED, 5 Oct): one search, one page, tied to a moment. Candidate for Tech Core week: put "Starfinder 2e" in /starfinder-deck-plans/'s title and h1, which is true (5 ft squares per the 2e Player Core, and the sf2e system was checked on 29 Sep), and say nothing about what Tech Core contains. First, at the 9 Oct inspect, see whether Google has the page at all. If it's still "Discovered", a title change won't matter yet. Don't write a blog-style page per topic until one page shows clicks.
• After r/starfinder_rpg (so the week of 12 Oct at the earliest), and only if task 8 didn't go bad on the AI line: an r/Star_Wars_Maps post (LEARNED, 5 Oct). [DECK PLAN] flair, or [Self Promotion] if it links the $12 page. One derelict's decks as PNGs with the size in the title ([WxH]), like the makers there do. AI line first; the creator's one rule is to say when AI is used. Second line: the maps come from dice tables in the page. Link a free map page, not the store. Not a Star Wars ship, and no Star Wars names. Before writing it, check the sub's sidebar again and look at the last 2 weeks of [DECK PLAN] posts.
• Foundry validation ran on 14.365 because foundry-validate.mjs runs on demo.foundryvtt.com, which is on that build. Stable is 14.368. That isn't ours to move: the demo will catch up. Each Sunday run's log line names the core it used. If it ever goes back to 13.x, the v14 claim on /foundry/ needs a look.
• Owlbear page, from 4 Oct: 7 views of /owlbear-rodeo-dd2vtt/ since 1 Oct 12:10, and 0 obr-copy, 0 obr-rogue. At 20+ views with still 0 copies, make the store link the page's first button above the manifest URL (one press, nothing to paste), then count obr-rogue again.
• r/starfinder_rpg, the week of Tech Core (out 7 Oct). Write it on Tue 6 Oct, after task 8's first day shows how r/FoundryVTT took it, and give it to the boss for Wed 7 or Thu 8. Shape: a gallery post with the Ad flair (the page links the $12 version), three to four deck PNGs at 5 ft squares from one ship, and the first line saying an AI agent made the maps and the post. Second paragraph, from the 30 Sep lessons: the maps come from dice tables in code that run in your browser, with no image model and no server. Never call Generate optional. A free .dd2vtt per deck for Foundry's sf2e system, and a link to /starfinder-deck-plans/. Don't claim Tech Core has starship rules: neither source says so. No staged replies. If task 8 goes negative on the AI line, hold this one and say why. - The ship is chosen (4 Oct): ICV Halcyon Drift. Images: the upper deck (3600x1700, 233 kB) and the lower deck (2700x1700, 151 kB), both from public/maps/icv-halcyon-drift/. The link is /maps/icv-halcyon-drift/, so the post also tests a map page's opens and downloads directly. Tuesday adds only the text. - DRAFT (5 Oct, from the key on disk; Tuesday adjusts it, then re-check every fact against the live page before /press/). Flair: Ad. Images: upper deck, then lower deck. - Title: "[free] ICV Halcyon Drift, a two deck starship on 5 ft squares, png and foundry walls (36x17 and 27x17)" - Body, line 1: "an ai agent built the tool that drew this ship, and it wrote this post. i'm the human who posts it." - Body, line 2: "no image generator here. the decks come from dice tables in code that runs in your browser, laid out room by room on a 5 ft grid." - Body, line 3: "upper deck has the bridge, crew quarters, galley, medbay, cargo, armoury, engineering and the drive. lower deck is a hold where something has been nesting in the crates, a machine shop, life support with pump 2 failing, and four escape pods, two showing green." - Body, line 4: "free and cc0: a png and a .dd2vtt per deck (walls, doors and lights, imports into foundry with the universal battlemap importer, works under the sf2e system), a print pdf and the room key. https://bulkhead.bananafest-destiny.com/maps/icv-halcyon-drift/"; - Body, line 5: "the editor that made it has a free demo and a $12 full version, which is why it's flaired ad." - Facts used: sizes from the page (36x17 upper, 27x17 lower, 100 px per 5 ft square). Rooms are word for word from icv-halcyon-drift-key.md. sf2e is from the 29 Sep check (sf2e 1.5.1, verified on v14). Checked 5 Oct: the PNGs are 3600x1700 and 2700x1700, and the .dd2vtt files say 36x17 and 27x17 at 100 px, with 19 and 8 portals and 6 and 3 lights.
• Batched asks, after task 1 (facts only): did [email removed] ever answer ticket #491430 (Roll20 Marketplace application, 15 Sep)? If it answered, what did it say? If it is silent past 13 Oct (4 weeks), the boss can reply on the ticket. Roll20's forum says that helps. If it was approved, rebuild store/roll20/halcyon-drift-pack.zip from the 1.18 build before uploading, because the current pack was rendered from 1.12.2. Better: build it from a ship that isn't free on /maps/, because Halcyon Drift is CC0 there and is the r/starfinder_rpg ship.
• 11 Oct: /maps/ opens again (events.sh since 1 Oct 12:10, 'view /maps/<slug>/'). It was 0 of 12 on 4 Oct, and the screenshots showed no fault. At 20+ views with 0 opens, try a direct download link on each card.
• 16 Oct, when The Last TTRPG Jam opens (theme on its page): re-read the rules, then make a one-sheet derelict boarding game on A4. The press is app/scripts/one-sheet.mjs (ship json, side-two HTML, out PDF); generate a fresh one-deck derelict on the day. Write all game text on or after 16 Oct; the jam says no pre-released content. Side one is a Bulkhead-generated derelict GM map with its trail. Side two is rules, a d6 of what goes wrong, a clock and the theme. The first line says an AI agent made it, and the map line credits Bulkhead. CC0, free. Only when the PDF is finished and checked, give the boss one /press/ step: a new free itch project and the jam submit. Next jam re-check is 17 Oct.
• When the boss says "pictures" or task 1 is done: fetch the itch page, check the screenshot order, that the video is gone and the tags, and that the demo file is the 816 kB examples zip (by size; never print md5s).
• 9 Oct inspect, also: /derelict-one-shot/ (unknown on 3 Oct; sitemap resubmitted and Bing-submitted 09:2x) and the four still-Discovered landing pages. On 3 Oct /deck-plan-generator/ had moved to indexed (crawled 1 Oct).
• 9 Oct, with the Google re-inspect: count bingbot hits since 2 Oct 07:16 on the 20 paths sent with bing-submit (/, the 7 keyword pages, /maps/ and the 11 map pages), against the 26 Sep week, when IndexNow alone left bingbot reading one page. If Bing still hasn't read them, bing-submit is as empty as IndexNow, so stop spending turns on it.
• Real-room batch, after task 1: in Owlbear with Dynamic Fog, check that a bridge "Window" (now sent closed) stops a token and that the GM can open it with the door tool. The source says yes. This is just to see it.
  • (Dropped 5 Oct, 08:2x: Scene Importer's own parser, run in node on our zip, imports 0 scenes because v11+ packs keep walls as separate keys. See LEARNED. Not a room test.)
• If a GM ever reports a room with no way in on a derelict: it opens on a hole (the 13:09 guard test proves it). Check how a breach draws at small sizes and in the PNG before touching the generator.
• 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.
• /maps/ from 4 Oct: Free maps is the intro's second visible button now. Count sittings that go / → /maps/, and whether they open a map page or come back and press Generate (before: 8 of 9 /maps/ sittings came from /, and none opened a map page). If it only pulls people away from the derelict, move it under More.
• Owlbear funnel, 4 Oct: bash scripts/installs.sh 2026-09-20T00:00:00Z against 34 listing / 25 manifest / 10 icon / 6 panel (3 Oct). If the panel count rises while the listing count holds, more people who add Bulkhead are finding it.
• Owlbear path, from 4 Oct: views of /owlbear-rodeo-dd2vtt/, then obr-copy and obr-rogue (counted since 1 Oct, 12:10), then obr-view, then obr-send, in events.sh. If people view the page but nobody copies, the page is what to fix. If they copy but nothing opens the panel, look at the install step in Owlbear. After each daily, run the switch check on a worktree.
• Phone Generate sittings after the room key fix (deployed by 07:17): per sitting, do phones now press Another one, Save or Link? Also per sitting: intact or derelict, and where it started (intro-derelict / intro-intact are counted from 2 Oct, about 05:12; the demo intro has led with the derelict since 05:00). Before, by app/scripts/sittings.sh 2026-09-28T00:00:00Z 2026-10-02T00:00:00Z: 5 of 29 web sittings saw a derelict, 1 saved or linked, 9 pressed more than once (the 04:54 count of 3 of 22 was off; see the 08:08 actual). Run the same script from 2026-10-02T05:12:00Z for after. 25 Sep to 1 Oct counted 103 intact presses against 13 derelict, but one phone made 58 presses on 1 Oct. If real sittings mostly stay on intact (the select's default) and never see a story, try derelict as the first press, then measure saves. Group by hour, country and device as on 1 Oct (a temporary script in app/scripts/, removed after). Read from/ alongside it.
• Batch question after task 1, on the same Android phone: download bulkhead-1.18.zip from /press/, unzip it, and open bulkhead.html. Does the editor run, and does Generate work? Then the same on an iPhone if there's one to hand. The file itself runs from disk in WebKit and in Chromium as a phone, even with storage blocked (the 2 Oct 18:07 actual); what's unknown is whether the phone opens it in a browser at all. If it doesn't, the itch page and the demo's upsell must say "for a computer" before anyone pays.
• Batch questions after task 1, all in one real Owlbear room. First, the .dd2vtt export from the panel on an Android phone: does a "downloaded" notice show, what is the file called in Downloads (it should end .dd2vtt), and does a two-deck ship bring up a "download multiple files?" prompt? (BR, 30 Sep: three presses, then a desktop save 25 min later. No sandbox on the frame and ~1 s to the download, checked 09:07.) Then a hex send and dragging in a -WxH PNG.
• Before task 1: after any src fix a buyer would get, run release.mjs 1.18 (it runs pack-check), --fix stale pack PDFs, re-make the Greyling by hand if it is flagged, bump ?v= on /press/ and itch-description, deploy, read every changed file back. Since 19:2x on 3 Oct: 1.18 zip ?v=1004b (since 21:2x on 4 Oct, with the short-phone card fix and the Global Illumination README lines), pack ?v=1018 (since 20:2x), examples zip and Greyling ?v=1004. From the upload on, pack ships don't change.
• Old .dd2vtt walls: done on 1 Oct (the daily archive, the weekly zip, Foundry 1.4.0). The /maps/ pages and both free packs (store/ = public/packs/; store/ is what I prepared for itch, but I can't see itch's uploaded files, so this is an assumption) already had the right walls, so the itch free packs need no re-upload. Drop that from the after-task-1 batch.
• Task 1 is now the file swap (the switch went live on 3 Oct). When status shows "itch sells the current" ok for both files, take the paid zips off /press/, drop the pack from the zip check, and paste the 1.18 devlog (store/DEVLOG-1.18.md) as the next ask.

01:07: Owlbear PR, site funnel, Fourteen Ships links ready

• PR #174: still open, label blocked/needs response, no maintainer comment since ours (15 Oct 01:17Z).
• Sittings 9 to 15 Oct (scripts/sittings.sh): 76 in all, 63 only viewed pages, 13 used the editor (2 in Owlbear). Web: 11 sittings, 8 pressed Generate, 1 saved or linked (a PNG export, 12 Oct, Canada, from Google). One sitting came from the itch page (11 Oct, France), 1 from Reddit, 4 from search.
• So the funnel is: itch Bulkhead 37 views, only 1 of the 76 site sittings came from itch, and nearly nobody exports. Traffic, not the editor, is the limit.
• Wrote the Fourteen Ships cross-link text into app/store/ITCH-FOURTEEN-SHIPS.md (Bulkhead page, both free packs, site). Nothing deployed: the page does not exist yet.
• Full vitest on main: 73 of 73 pass (the medbay test failure from earlier is gone; the test now uses seed 11).
• Finished 01:08

02:12: Boss joins the jam; show what Derelict looks like

• Boss's answer is in FACTS.md word for word: they'll join the jam for me.
• Made a mock-up of one Derelict screen from the real 15 Oct daily (RSV Nettle): air bar, carried items, logs, fog over unseen rooms, the path walked, a log card. Saved as scratch/2026-10-16-derelict-mockup.jpg and sent to the boss as a file (no deploy).
• Told the boss honestly what interest to expect (below in LEARNED once the jam gives numbers).
• Finished 02:13

02:46: Check whether jam work may start before 17 Oct

• Jam page, read 16 Oct: "Continuing an existing project is allowed, only if the majority of the submission is new content." "Development must be heavily AI-assisted, majority of the game was AI generated." No rule that the game is made inside the window. "The theme is a suggestion, not a hard requirement."
• So I start the game today, not 17 Oct. Bulkhead's generator and renderer are the old part; the game (moving, air, fog, hazards, logs, salvage, score) must be most of it, and will be.
• Finished 02:47

02:47: Derelict, day 1: a ship you can walk

• Built the first playable Derelict: app/derelict/index.html, src/game/engine.ts (rules, no DOM), src/game/main.ts (page), src/game/game.css; added to vite's inputs.
• It loads the day's saved ship (/daily/<date>/ship.bulkhead.json, so the game's ship is the one the daily post shows; before 11:07Z it plays yesterday's). ?practice makes a random derelict.
• Rules so far: board at a hull airlock (or a breach open to space), 1 air a step, doors 2, breach squares 3, fog until you enter a room, logs and salvage from the room key (carry 4), ladders between decks, leave through the airlock. Score = salvage + 25 a log, 0 if the air runs out. Air is set from the distances to the items.
• test/game.test.ts: 6 tests (boarding on 120 generated ships, step costs and walls, every item reachable, enough air for the farthest item and back, scoring, the 15 Oct ship). All pass.
• Played it in a headless browser at 1280x800 and 390x844: every pickup message fired, a greedy run ran out of air, the end screen and share line render, no page errors. Fixed two things seen: a missing day came back as a page and broke the fallback; space beside the corridor drew in floor colour (fog is now a clip).
• Page is noindex for now. Air numbers for the last 8 dailies: 32 to 156; every ship has 3 logs but only 2 salvage, so carry 4 never binds yet (day 2 work).
• Deployed after 79/79 tests passed (commit b9d145f). Live check 03:04 UTC on a phone-size browser: https://bulkhead.bananafest-destiny.com/derelict/ loads the 15 Oct ship, moving costs air, no page errors. Not linked from anywhere yet.
• Finished 02:57

03:07: Derelict, day 2: hazards that bite and enough salvage to choose

• Every Cause in the table now maps to one hazard rule the player feels: sealed (forcing in costs 4 air on first entry), thick (every step in the room costs 1 more air), hurt (5 air on first entry). Rooms with people, food or flavour text stay free; a test makes every unclassified hazard prove it is one of those.
• The room card names the rule and turns red.
• Loose salvage now comes from lockers, crates and containers (15 to 45 points), so ships carry 3 to 6 salvage items besides the 3 logs, and the carry limit of 4 forces a choice.
• Air is max(2 x farthest + 12, 0.6 x item distances + 15). On the last 8 dailies that is 39 to 155 air.
• The boarding test (120 ships) took 8 s in the full run against the 5 s default; it now has a 30 s timeout. Full suite 82/82.
• Finished 03:25
• Deployed 03:26 after the push. Live /derelict/ loads RSV Nettle (15 Oct, 113 air), and moving spends air; no page errors. Before 11:07Z the 16 Oct ship.bulkhead.json returns 404, and the page falls back to the day before as designed.

05:07: Derelict, day 3: phone-sized squares and tapping into the dark

• Tap anywhere: a seen square walks the shortest route as before. A dark square now walks over seen squares to the reachable square nearest the tap, which can be one step through a door into an unseen room (Game.approach). Before, it took a single step.
• Phone: on touch screens squares are 42 to 52 px (was 32), and the map scrolls instead of shrinking. Under 600 px wide the header is one line and the card is tighter; the key hint is hidden there, because the opening message already says what to do.
• Checked at 390x844 on a dev server with the 15 Oct ship: no page errors, no sideways page scroll, and taps walk 1 to 4 squares as expected. A tap toward a wall with no door walks you up to that wall, which spends air; that is left as is.
• New test: across 12 freighters, every step of an approach starts on a seen square, ends nearer the tap, and at least some go into the dark. Type-check clean; full suite 83/83.
• Finished 05:16
• Deployed after the push. The first check right after the deploy still got the old page (cached HTML, and the new bundle returned 404). A second deploy said "No updated asset files to upload", so the files had already gone up; it just took time to reach the edge. Checked again at 05:17: live /derelict/ serves the new bundle; at 390 wide the squares are 42 px, the page doesn't scroll sideways, and a tap toward the dark walked 4 squares (113 to 108 air). No page errors.
• Lesson: after a deploy, check that the page names the new bundle before calling it live.

05:56: Derelict, day 4: one run a day, kept

• New src/game/record.ts saves the counted run (title, score, share line, story) in localStorage under the ship's date. Only the plain /derelict/ run counts; ?practice and ?day= are never stored. The first result for a day stays, 60 days are kept, and missing, full or junk storage is ignored, so the game still plays.
• On reload, a day already played opens straight to its result, with "You've had your run on this ship. The next one comes aboard at about 11:07 UTC.", plus the practice button and the map link.
• Found while checking: "Leave the ship" showed at the start, so one stray tap spent the day's run with nothing found. It is now hidden until the first step, and stepping out through the airlock before then says "You've only just come aboard" instead.
• Known gap: a reload in the middle of a run starts it over; only finished runs are kept. Saving the middle of a run is not worth it before the jam.
• Browser check on a dev server: leave, reload shows the saved result, practice still starts fresh, and leaving is blocked until the first step; no page errors. New test/record.test.ts (4 tests). Full suite 87/87.
• Finished 06:06
• Deployed after the push; the live page named the new bundle (and it returned 200) on the first check. In a fresh browser, live /derelict/ opens a run with Leave hidden, nothing stored and no page errors. Checked 06:06.

07:07: Derelict, day 5: a build that runs inside an itch page

• public/_headers now sends Access-Control-Allow-Origin: on /daily/. Those are the free daily maps, already public. Live, checked with an itch Origin header.
• vite.itch.config.ts plus scripts/build-itch.sh make app/derelict-itch.zip (git-ignored): 40 KB, 4 files, index.html at the root, relative assets, no favicon. The ship is fetched from the live site every day, so the zip never needs a rebuild for a new day.
• Inside another site's frame, the end-screen links (Bulkhead, today's map) now point at the real site and open in a new tab.
• Stand-in for itch: the zip served from 127.0.0.1:5300 inside an iframe on localhost:5301. It loaded RSV Nettle from the live site, a tap walked (113 to 108 air), and the links were absolute with _blank. The one console error is the 16 Oct ship 404 before 11:07Z, which the page falls back from.
• app/store/ITCH-DERELICT.md has the page settings and description for the boss: free, HTML, 820x760, mobile friendly, AI disclosure for code, text and graphics, and an "made by an AI agent" paragraph. Cover and screenshots are still to make.
• Full suite 87/87 before the push; deployed alone after it. Nothing uploaded to itch.
• Finished 07:16

09:07: Derelict, day 6: cover and screenshots for the itch page

• A script plays the 15 Oct ship through the real UI on a dev server, with full-knowledge pathing through a dev-only window.derelictEngine hook. It picked up 3 items and got out with 38 air, scoring 230. It took shots at the first log, the first hazard and the end screen, at 900x760 and at 390x844.
• Kept in app/store/itch-derelict/: cover-630x500.png (1260x1000, made from the in-game hazard view with the title above it; cover.html is the source), desk-hazard, desk-log, phone-hazard and desk-end. I looked at each one. ITCH-DERELICT.md lists them in order.
• Found from the shots and fixed: - The share line used the page's own address, which would be localhost here and itch's domain on itch. It now always gives https://bulkhead.bananafest-destiny.com/derelict/. - Hazard text started in lower case; it is now capitalised. - Hazard text carried tabletop dice lines ("roll for an encounter when they start"). New forPlay() drops those clauses in the game only; the maps keep the full text. A test across 60 ships checks that none are left and none are emptied.
• Checked that the share row was right: the run entered 4 rooms and looted all 4, so 4 🟨 and no 🟦 is correct.
• Full suite 88/88.
• Finished 09:26
• Deployed alone after the push. At 09:26 the live page named the new bundle and it returned 200. The itch zip was rebuilt from this code (40 KB, git-ignored).

11:07: Daily run for 16 Oct, then the boss's itch steps for Derelict

• Daily ran by hand at 11:07Z (the timer isn't installed): exit 0, npm run status all 31 clear, Bluesky post recorded in meta.json. Live Derelict loads the 16 Oct ship (Dray Station, air 103) on a phone-sized screen.
• Moved the AI line in the itch description to the top ("Made by an AI agent (Claude) for AI Browser Game Jam 5.") and dropped the duplicate jam line at the end.
• Boss step page at /press/derelict.html, with the itch zip (rebuilt, 39 KB), cover and four screenshots under /press/derelict/. All noindex through the /press/* header.
• Deployed. https://bulkhead.bananafest-destiny.com/press/derelict (the .html address redirects there) returns 200 with noindex; the zip, cover and four screenshots under it all return 200.
• Finished 11:15

13:07: Derelict day 7, a reload keeps the run you are on

• The engine now records every move that happened (N/E/S/W, C for a ladder; a bump into a wall isn't recorded), and replay() plays them back onto a fresh game. The counted daily saves its moves in the browser after each move and clears them when the run ends. On a reload it replays them and says "Back aboard ... where you left off". Practice and ?day runs don't touch it.
• Tests: a replay matches the original in position, air, items, rooms and outcome on 12 random wanders; a wall bump records nothing; the saved moves are read back only for their own day, and junk or storage that throws is ignored. Full suite 91/91.
• Browser (dev server, 16 Oct ship): 8 steps took air from 103 to 95; after a reload it was still 95 at the same square, with no page errors. Opening practice left the saved run alone.
• Deployed. The live /derelict/ page names the new bundle and returns 200. A fresh browser on the live site went from 103 air to 98 in five steps; after a reload it still had 98 and said "Back aboard". No page errors. (That live test used a throwaway browser, so no real player's run was touched.)
• Finished 13:16

15:07: Derelict day 8, put something down to make room

• Engine: drop() (unused) is replaced by swap(item). With full hands it puts a carried find down where you stand and takes the one lying there. It is recorded in the moves as D<n>., so replay and a reload keep it. It does nothing if nothing lies here or the item isn't carried. The saved-moves check now accepts the D form.
• Page: the "hands are full" card names what's here and its worth, then gives one button per carried find ("three rifles, 70"). Labels are cut at a word under 40 characters. Buttons are at least 40 px tall for fingers.
• Tests: a new swap test (full hands, walk onto a fifth find, swap, refuse to put down what isn't carried, replay matches); record test covers the D form. Full suite 92/92.
• Browser (dev, phone 390x844, practice ship): walking onto a fifth find showed four buttons. Tapping one took the 99 find, still 4/4, salvage up. No page errors.
• Deployed. The live /derelict/ page names the new bundle (200), which has the swap code, and a practice ship loads with no errors on a phone-sized screen.
• Rebuilt the itch zip, which was built before the reload save and the swap, and replaced the copy at /press/derelict/. The live download matches the local one byte for byte (39357 bytes).
• Finished 15:17

15:21: The boss asked to look at last time's jam games

• Read the jam 4 page, all 7 results pages, the AI Usage results, and three game pages (the 1st, the 3rd, and Neon Abyss Salvage, the nearest to Derelict). Findings are in LEARNED.md under "The last AI jam".
• Short version: 125 entries, 7 ratings at the median, and the score is cut below the median. Audio is one of six categories and Derelict has none. The winners were small, finished, with sound and a plain AI disclosure. The salvage-on-oxygen entry came 39th.
• Finished 15:23

16:26: Boss will rate entries; Derelict day 9, sound

• FACTS.md: the boss said "No problem" to playing and rating about 10 entries after submitting.
• Sound added (src/game/sound.ts, WebAudio, no files): - a quiet hull drone that starts on the first move and stops at the end - a footfall on each step and a hiss for doors - a two-tone alarm for hazard rooms, a chime for logs and a clink for salvage - a buzz when your hands are full and three rungs for a ladder - a double beep once when air drops below a quarter - an airlock rush for getting out and a falling groan for being lost
• A "Sound on/off" button in the HUD is remembered in the browser. Replay on reload is silent.
• Browser check (dev, phone size, practice ship): no audio before the first move. Four steps made one context, the drone and four step sounds. Muting stops new sounds and survives a reload. Running out of air played the end sound and showed the end screen. No page errors. I can't listen, so levels are set by numbers (each sound peaks at 0.12 or less, under a 0.8 master).
• Full suite 92/92.
• The itch text now has a "How it was made" list (code, graphics, text, sound, and what made each), after the plain disclosure TECHNICAL DEBT was praised for. The AI disclosure to tick is now Code, Graphics, Sounds and Text. The step page is updated to match.
• Deployed. The live /derelict/ page names the new bundle (200) and has the sound button. The rebuilt itch zip (with sound) is live at /press/derelict/ and matches the local build byte for byte (40827). The live step page shows the new disclosure.
• Finished 16:36

16:48: VibeCider footer line on every Bulkhead page

• The link resolves: the VibeCider page returns 200 with ?from=bulkhead kept. RULES.md has nothing against it.
• The site has no single shared footer. The shared last line on every page is the "Built in public by an autonomous agent" note. The new line goes right under it, in the same small type: - 56 static pages (31 daily days, the daily archive, the 12 map pages, the guide, about, 404, the landing pages) - both page generators (scripts/daily-derelict.mjs and scripts/map-pages.mjs), so new pages carry it - the editor (index.html)
• Left out on purpose: - the paid one-file build (vite.single.config.ts strips it; the test build has no "vibecider" in it) - obr.html (the Owlbear store extension) - Derelict (its page goes into the itch zip) - /press/ (boss-only pages) - every export, pack and module file
• The first try gave the editor line an id and broke the entry-pages test (index.html and obr.html must share ids). Changed to a class; that test passes 7/7, and the rest of the suite had passed 91.
• Deployed. Fetched live: the exact line, with the link and ?from=bulkhead, is in the HTML of /maps/, the editor (/), /daily/, today's day page, a map page, /guide/ and the 404 page. As planned it is not on /derelict/ or /obr.
• Finished 16:58

16:58: Derelict day 10, fix the controls the boss hit

• Walks go the cheapest way in air, and the straightest at equal cost. This uses a Dijkstra over square and heading, so no more zigzags. A test over 10 ships checks more than 200 targets: the new walk never costs more air than the old one, and it turns no more often at equal cost.
• The first tap more than one square away shows a dashed path, the steps and air it costs, and what's there. The second tap walks it, and an adjacent tap steps at once. A new test walks over 100 planned routes on 12 ships, and the air each preview promised always matched the air spent. It caught one bug: the hazard of the room you stand in was counted twice in the preview. Fixed.
• Touch screens get a big arrow pad that moves one square per press. A legend under the bars now says what each thing is: ◆ salvage, ▬ log, ▢ airlock.
• Checked on a Pixel 7-sized browser: legend and pad visible, tap 1 shows "4 steps, 6 air (you have 50). Tap there again to go.", tap 2 walks exactly 4, and each pad press moves 1. The plan text no longer sticks around after the walk.
• 94/94 tests pass and tsc is clean. Commit be1023c is pushed and deployed, the live /derelict/ page serves the new bundle (200), and the itch zip is rebuilt and live (42137 bytes, the same size locally and live).
• Finished 17:12

17:12: Derelict, why the boss died in the first room

• Simulated explorers on 24 practice ships. Nobody died in the first room; even the worst case still had 76% of its air on reaching it. The real trap came later: the way back costs more than the step count suggests (doors, thick rooms), and the game never said what it costs. Even a "careful" bot that turned back by step count often ran dry.
• Fix: the bar now shows "· N to get out" beside your air, the cheapest way back over squares you've seen, counting hazards. It turns red when your margin is 6 or less, and the first time that happens a beep stops your walk with "Time to head back. Getting out from here takes N air and you have M." A test on 12 ships checks the number against what walking home really costs.
• Phone check: the readout shows "· 3 to get out" in red with the head-back message. 95/95 tests pass. Pushed, deployed, and the live bundle has the text; the itch zip was rebuilt (42605 bytes, the same live).
• The boss then put a video of a sub game from last year's jam in inbox/, to compare against.
• Finished 17:34

17:48: Derelict, make the things you can take unmistakable

• The ship is now washed dark so it reads as scenery. Chairs, consoles and crates no longer look like loot. Things you can take glow and carry a label: SALVAGE is a green diamond, LOG a gold data pad with text lines. The exit is a lit blue square marked EXIT. You are now a white suit with a visor, labelled YOU, so gold means only logs.
• Tapping furniture now says what it is: "There: a console, part of the ship. Nothing to take; things you can take glow and are labelled." The legend is now "Take what glows: ◆ SALVAGE · ▮ LOG · ▢ EXIT".
• Checked on a Pixel 7-sized browser on a practice station: the log, exit and you are plain at a glance, and the chairs and consoles are dim. 95/95 tests pass and tsc is clean. Pushed and deployed, the live bundle has the change, and the itch zip is rebuilt (43329 bytes, the same live).
• Then the boss asked whether I'm trying to rank or just making a game someone tries once, and sent a screenshot of what looks like the jam 4 winner (Plug & Prosper).
• Finished 17:59

18:14: Derelict art, a first image-model test with the new keys

• Both key lines are present (checked by name only, never printed). Made one test image with gpt-image-1 at medium quality, 1024², with a transparent background, for about $0.04. It's a 2x2 sheet: a chunky white-suited salvager with a cyan visor, a green crate, an orange data log with a glowing screen, and a teal airlock hatch. The style is bold outlines and soft cel shading, it reads well small, and the alpha channel is truly transparent.
• Not used in the game yet. I've asked the boss before making the full set (about 10 images, under $1).
• Finished 18:15

18:22: Derelict, an honest look at the game before any art

• Played today's ship and four practice ships with a careful-person bot (nearest unseen, take what's there, home when the margin is thin). Today: 103 air, 8 things in 7 rooms over 2 decks; the bot saw 2 of 8 things, entered 3 of 7 rooms, found 0 of 3 logs, and got out with 37 air to spare and 5 ways unexplored. Across all six runs: hands were never full (2-3 of 4 carried), logs found were 0-2 of 3, hazards hit 0-1 per run, and most runs ended with a third of the air unused.
• Verdict: the engine is fine, the loop is thin. The only decision is "further or back", the values and rooms are hidden until you're in them so nothing is a choice in advance, nothing changes during a run, the carry limit almost never bites, and the logs (the one thing that's ours) mostly go unfound. Art would make it prettier, not better. Told the boss, with the design changes I'd make before art.
• Finished 18:24

18:28: Derelict redesign 1, you can see the deck plan from the airlock

• The engine now knows every floor square of every deck from the start (known). Tap routing and the "N to get out" readout run over the plan, so you can walk straight to a room you've never seen. What's in a room still shows only once you've looked.
• Drawing: the whole deck is drawn, and rooms you haven't looked in are darker. Each room with a hazard is tagged (SEALED +4, HURTS +5, +1 A STEP), so a route's cost is visible before you commit.
• Phones: the map is zoomed for fingertips, so a small overview of the whole deck sits in the top corner, showing you, the exit, items you've seen and the part on screen. Tap it to look there.
• The intro says you have the deck plan. "0 to get out" is hidden at the airlock.
• Tests: 95/95 pass and tsc is clean. Committed 0880170, deployed, and the live bundle has the new text. The itch zip is rebuilt and live at 44050 bytes (the local file matches).
• Finished 18:40

18:40: Derelict redesign 2, logs point at loot and values show on sight, carry 3

• Each log now points at its own cache: the salvage farthest from the airlock, worth 100 more. Reading the log marks a gold ★ CACHE N where it lies, even in rooms you haven't seen. If it's on another deck, the message says so.
• Seen salvage shows its value on its tag (SALVAGE 45, ★ CACHE 160). CARRY is now 3, and loose salvage went from "every other one, at most 4" to "at most 6", so there is more than you can carry.
• On phones (and on big decks on desktop), a small overview map sits in the corner.
• A greedy bot played the last 20 daily ships, before and after the extra salvage: - Before: all 20 got out, median score 285. It read 26/59 logs, took 28/59 caches and saw 88/193 rooms. It ended with full hands in 6 runs and hit "hands full" once. It left with 12% of its air. - After: all 20 got out, median score 340. It read 29/59 logs, took 35/59 caches and saw 100/193 rooms. It ended with full hands in 11 runs and chose what to drop 10 times. It left with 8% of its air. - So the carry limit now bites, and the air is tight without being lethal.
• The bot also confirmed the "N to get out" readout across decks: on every multi-deck ship, the cheapest way home via a ladder equalled airOut.
• The bot found one known gap: the room you board in is never counted in game.rooms, because entry is counted only when you cross from another room. Its hazard is never charged. That's harmless for now; noted.
• New test: logs point at distinct caches, the caches are deterministic, and reading a log marks its cache. 18/18 game tests, the full suite 95+1 and tsc pass. Committed 1cd14fe, deployed, and the live bundle has "mentions a cache". The itch zip is live at 44535 bytes, matching local.
• Finished 18:54

18:54: Derelict redesign 3, the ship is dying while you're aboard

• Every 10 steps the ship decays near you. A door jams (+4 to force it, red bar and JAMMED +4 on the map), smoke spreads into a room (+1 a step, grey haze and a SMOKE tag), or a pipe bursts (-3 air). The type comes from a hash of the ship's name and the count, so a replay meets the same ship.
• Walks stop when it happens, and the line is added after anything else the step said.
• It never kills you: with less than 8 spare over the way out, the ship holds. Without that, the bot died on 1 of 20 ships to a burst pipe at a 3-air margin. That felt cheap, not earned.
• Routes, the walk-cost preview and "N to get out" all count jammed doors and smoke (stepAt/thick in the engine). Room tags drop SEALED/HURTS once you've paid them and combine with SMOKE.
• Bot on the last 20 dailies (rewritten; kept in the scratchpad, not the repo): 20/20 out, median 340, logs 27/59, caches 34/59, rooms 89/193, full hands at the end 10/20, 12% air left, about 7.5 decay events per run.
• Tests: decay fires on the 10-step beat and replays identically, a jammed door costs +4, and the planned-walk test now checks the part walked before the ship changed. 98/98 pass and tsc is clean. Committed fc927b1, deployed, live bundle checked. The zip is live at 45471, matching local.
• Finished 19:08

19:08: Derelict redesign 4, a par score per ship so a run means something

• The bot's share of the best possible score (all logs plus the top 3 salvage) ran from 0.06 to 1.0 across the last 20 dailies, so a flat share would make a bad par.
• Par is instead a greedy tour that knows where everything is, kept to a share of the air and rounded to 5. The bot beat par at each share as follows: - 50% of the air: 15 of 20. - 60%: 11 of 20, about half, as planned. Taken. - 70%: 6 of 20.
• Par shows in the airlock message, in the bar ("worth N · par P") and on the end card ("over par" / "N short"). The share line now leads with the score ("340 (par 320 ✓)").
• It's worked out on first use, about 79 ms in the browser on today's ship. Computing it in the constructor timed out tests that build hundreds of ships.
• Test: par is deterministic, a multiple of 5, above 0 and no more than the best possible. 99/99 pass and tsc is clean. Committed da6c8f8, deployed, and the live bundle has "over par". The zip is live at 45815, matching local.
• Air budget: left as it is. The bot ends with 12% of its air and sees about 46% of rooms, and par makes a short run feel complete. A human who reads the logs should see more.
• All five design changes the boss said "Do it" to are now live. Art comes next, and the boss is asked first, as agreed.
• Finished 19:28

19:28: Derelict's itch copy and press page say what the game is now

• ITCH-DERELICT.md and /press/derelict rewritten for the game as it is now: the deck plan from the airlock, three things in hand, logs that point to a ★ cache, a ship that keeps decaying, and a par per ship. Also fixed the "every day every day" typo.
• Four new screenshots made by a throwaway Playwright bot on practice ships: a log marking its cache, a door jamming, an end card over par, and a phone view. They're in store/itch-derelict/ and public/press/derelict/, and the live PNG sizes match the local files.
• Found a small wording bug while shooting: a score equal to par read "over par … You beat it." It now reads "on par … You matched it." Tests 99/99, tsc clean.
• Rebuilt the itch zip (45836 bytes) and deployed. The live zip, the bundle text and the press page all check out.
• Finished 19:41

19:41: Ask the boss about Derelict art

• I asked the boss and they answered "Yes, up to $1" (recorded in FACTS.md).
• Made 9 gpt-image-1 images, all at medium quality and 1536x1024, each 1568 output tokens. That's about $0.57; one image is kept in reserve.
  • The cover is a lone figure at an amber-lit airlock. The other eight are one empty room for each cause of death: swarm, reactor, quarantine, mutiny, boarded, misjump, cold, specimen.
• The end card now shows the cause's picture above "What happened here". It's picked by causeOf() from the ship's brief. - The images are webp files at 768x512, 79 KB for all eight, bundled through import.meta.glob, so the itch zip carries them too (126770 bytes). - All 20 dailies so far and 400 generated ships map to a cause. A new test checks there's one picture for each cause.
• The itch cover was re-rendered from cover.html over the painting.
• Disclosure: ITCH-DERELICT.md and the press page now say the cover and the eight end pictures came from gpt-image-1, and that the map, items and interface use no generated images.
• Removed the stray art-test-1.png from /press (live now returns 404).
• zz-img.mjs is deleted.
• Tests 100/100, tsc clean. Deployed, and the live bundle serves the webp files.
• Finished 19:59

21:07: Derelict's map labels stop colliding, and the minimap box sits true

• Every pill tag on the map (hazard, JAMMED, EXIT, item, cache) now registers its box. A tag that would cover an earlier one steps down a line, up to 3 times.
• Room names are no longer drawn by render(). The game draws them last, at 60% alpha, so they still read as scenery. Each one tries its own spot first, then one line down, one up, two down, two up, whichever doesn't cover the player, the exit square, an item or a tag.
  • Checked on a desktop practice ship: "CREW" stepped below a ★ CACHE tag, and nothing overlaps.
• Minimap: the viewport box was already in the right place, just faint against the minimap's border (checked against the scroll numbers). It now uses a 1.5px brighter line and measures from the canvas's on-screen rect, so a margin can't throw it off.
• Tests 100/100, tsc clean. The itch zip is rebuilt (127133 bytes, live matches) and deployed, and the live bundle has the change.
• Finished 21:17

23:07: Derelict's boarding room plays by the same rules as every other room

• The gap was worse than the plan said. The boarding room wasn't in game.rooms, so walking back into it on the way out charged its SEALED/HURTS cost. The "to get out" readout counted that cost too, so it was consistent but unfair. The room's tag also never went away.
• Fix in the Game constructor: if the boarding square is in a room, that room counts as entered from the start, with no charge. A thick room still costs +1 a step. - Par is unchanged, because parFor ignores hazards. - A run replayed from saved moves only gains air.
• New test: on 60 generated derelicts, every boarding room counts as entered. Tests 101/101.
• I didn't rerun the bot. The change only removes a charge.
• Deployed. The live page names the new bundle, and the itch zip matches (127158 bytes).
• The leaderboard question is still with the boss. Nothing has been built for it.
• Finished 23:15