01:07: What players did on 25 Oct, and the biggest leak in the crew game's first visit
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01:07: What players did on 25 Oct, and the biggest leak in the crew game's first visit
- Read events since 25 Oct 00:00Z: crew starts, raids, hauls home, dock box seen, returns, Play installs. Pick the step where most new crews stop and fix that one thing if it is small, with tests and a deploy.
03:07: Count the clicks we send to the Play listing, tagged by where they came from
- A /play redirect in the worker, counted like /hb, that goes to the Play listing with a referrer tag (utm_source by page), so Play Console's store performance splits our visitors out. Point the crew page and press page links at it. Tests, deploy, check the redirect.
Next
- Docent's three Hullbound clips are up and mailed (25 Oct). 1 Nov: send Docent a week of /hb counts (crew-from-hb, crew-start-from-hb). Same /media/ spec plus claim JSON; the speed-up is said in notes. 1 Nov: send Docent a week of /hb counts.
- 25 Oct after 11:07Z: the daily, if today's derelict is missing.
- DERELICT (AI Browser Game Jam 5, submitted 20 Oct): competition check today. Rating opens 31 Oct; never rate entries myself.
- HULLBOUND (main work), live on Google Play since 24 Oct. Waiting on the boss: - itch: (zips uploaded by the boss 25 Oct 17:31Z, checked) before 31 Oct 03:00Z: post the "Rooms have pictures now" devlog (press page step 6), put desk-rooms.png first in the Derelict screenshots, upload the Hullbound zip again (432,405: the haul said at the top, a count of boards from the crew page, and the Play line for Android browsers), and paste the Hullbound description from /press/hullbound/ (25 Oct: episodes, Shipwright and the Play line together). - Reddit drafts in app/store/REDDIT-ANDROID.md (r/AndroidGaming [DEV], r/MobileGames). The next Reddit ask is not before 27 Oct. - Phone: check that Shipwright stays hidden after buying; uninstall com.bananafestdestiny.hullbound.test; turn off wireless debugging. - Offered, not yet decided: move the deck wall into the first session; count a Bulkhead purchase as Shipwright.
- Hullbound watch, each day: Android installs from strangers (events.sh distinct phone-app browsers above 1); crew-from-hb, crew-start-from-hb, crew-play-dock; tale-* pings; writer spend in crew-stats.sh against MONTHLY_CAP $10.
- Feedback Friday on r/incremental_games, 30 Oct, sidebar first (Rule 1D).
- BULKHEAD (upkeep): the daily keeps running. The boss sets the itch price from $12 to $9. Build the 1.20 upload round (plan/2026-10-22.md Next) only when the boss has an upload slot.
- 27 Oct: re-read sittings.sh (as in plan/2026-10-22.md Next) only if there are 20 or more web sittings.
Actual
01:07: What players did on 25 Oct, and the biggest leak in the crew game's first visit
- 25 Oct was quiet: 89 game events, 63 page views. Hullbound had 1 phone (the boss's app) and 4 desktop browsers. 0 itch purchases anywhere.
- Since 21 Oct, crew game on itch: 49 crews started, 24 raids started from the crew page, 10 of those raids finished in Derelict (crewhome), and 4 hauls reached the crew. The 14 that never finished are the biggest leak, but Derelict's own board/out counts mix in the jam page's players, so I can't tell whether they boarded.
- Checked the Derelict title card from a crew raid at itch's frame size (820x760) and at phone size: Board the ship is in view in both. No bug found.
- Added a count, crewboard, when a crew-page raid boards (src/game/main.ts board()); events.sh files it under Hullbound. tsc clean; tests 244 passed. Deployed; live Derelict has it.
- Rebuilt the Hullbound itch zip with it: 432,180 bytes, live at /press/hullbound/. This replaces the 432,175 the boss was due to re-upload, so the one pending re-upload carries both changes.
- Finished 01:16
03:07: Count the clicks we send to the Play listing, tagged by where they came from
- Changed course from the plan: no /play redirect. The crew page already counts clicks on its one Play link (play-dock): 0 since 21 Oct, from 15 showings of the email box it sits in.
- A browser on an Android phone (not the app) now gets a line under the raid buttons: "On Android? Get Hullbound from Google Play: the app tells you when the ship docks." Clicks count as crew-play-android-web.
- Both Play links on the crew page carry a referrer: utm_source site or itch, utm_medium crew, utm_campaign dock or android-web. The itch description's Play link carries utm_source=itch and utm_medium=description (press page and store/ITCH-HULLBOUND.md). Play Console's store performance can then split these visits by source.
- Checked on the local dev server with an Android user agent: the line shows, the referrer is right, no page errors. Desktop: hidden. Gave both links a readable colour on the dark page.
- My first try used PHONE, which is declared later in the module and would have thrown on load; I changed it to SHELF before running anything.
- tsc clean; tests 244 passed. Deployed; live /crew/ has the line and the live press page has the tagged link.
- Hullbound zip rebuilt: 432,405 bytes. It replaces 432,180 as the one the boss re-uploads.
- In chat I told the boss the email box was hidden on phones. It is hidden in the app, not in phone browsers, and I corrected that.
- Finished 03:16