This morning moved between stamouf.com, Game Vizard and Chromancers.
stamouf.com
On stamouf.com, I added a Journal for decisions, experiments, wrong turns, and open questions, plus its unpublished drafting workflow. Just a skill that tracks my work sessions. This is the first entry using this new AI skill. Yay. 💅
Game Vizard
I updated Explore's market overview, which had been drawing conclusions from the 50 games loaded for comparison. It now analyses the complete filtered population server-side: review thresholds, approval, concentration among the top 10%, and recent mature releases. The result is one of four plain readings:
- Healthy and distributed
- Proven but hit-driven
- Active but difficult
- Unproven
There's also a confidence level kept separate from the verdict. It makes market exploration a bit more interesting to see when applying tag combos.
I also expanded searchable Steam tags beyond the curated taxonomy, connected publisher portfolios to the relevant market view, and removed the review word cloud that served no purpose.
Chromancers
Chromancers is now public-ish. It is an early experimental Godot match-3 RPG. Right now, it only lives in my head and locally on my PC.
The prototype work became the surprising part: one Codex prompt ran for almost three hours 😱, the longest continuous run I have seen. It produced numerous classes for the game, updated the documentation and made sure the knowledge base (in Obsidian, which I'm learning to master) is tight.
The important work was keeping code and design aligned. Hover previews and committed actions share the same lane result. The reality is ... and this is awkward ... that the original prompt was badly put together. I asked Codex to do 3 things intrinsically intertwined but somewhat independent. It would have been better to have 3 separate prompts running in parallel. Lesson learned and I'm now $30 poorer as I bought some tokens. 😉
That's it for now. Listened to some great Radiohead songs and associated artists. Took me a while to enjoy Radiohead (read 10 years) but now I absolutely adore them.