Project State

Project Reference

See: .planning/PROJECT.md (updated 2026-05-08)

Core value: Every idle mechanic must function as a metaphor that the player absorbs without being told. When economy and meaning conflict, meaning wins. Current focus: Phase 1 — Foundations & Doctrine

Current Position

Phase: 1 of 8 (Foundations & Doctrine) Plan: 0 of TBD in current phase Status: Ready to plan Last activity: 2026-05-08 — Roadmap created, 77 v1 requirements mapped across 8 phases.

Progress: [░░░░░░░░░░] 0%

Performance Metrics

Velocity:

Total plans completed: 0
Average duration: —
Total execution time: 0.0 hours

By Phase:

Phase	Plans	Total	Avg/Plan
1. Foundations & Doctrine	0	0	—

Recent Trend:

Last 5 plans: —
Trend: — (no plans completed yet)

Updated after each plan completion

Accumulated Context

Decisions

Decisions are logged in PROJECT.md Key Decisions table. Recent decisions affecting current work:

Phase 1 will land all retrofit-hostile foundations (versioned saves, content/asset pipelines, sim/render firewall, anti-FOMO doctrine, Season 7 end-state design) before any feature code — research from all four researchers converged on this ordering.
Phase 2 will ship Season 1 as a complete vertical slice that could plausibly ship as a free standalone prologue ahead of Seasons 2-7, defending against the 7-Season scope risk.
Phases 4-7 deliver the remaining six Seasons in mechanic-introducing pairs (Season 2 alone with prestige, Seasons 3-4, Seasons 5-6, Season 7 alone) — at most one new mechanic per Season per the scope-defense doctrine.

Pending Todos

None yet.

Blockers/Concerns

Carry-forward banner concerns from research:

7-Season scope risk is the project's biggest risk; defended by the standalone-Season-1 escape hatch (Phase 2) and the one-mechanic-per-Season cap.
Story ends but the loop doesn't — Season 7 end-state design must land in Phase 1 (PIPE-05); finite Roothold ceiling enforced in Phase 4 (SEAS-04); credits/coda rest-state in Phase 7 (SEAS-10).
AI asset style drift — provenance + curation + locked north-star reference set must land in Phase 1 (AEST-08, AEST-09, PIPE-03) before any production-volume asset generation in Phase 5+; visual regression testing in Phase 8 (PIPE-04).

Deferred Items

Items acknowledged and carried forward from previous milestone close:

Category	Item	Status	Deferred At
(none)

Session Continuity

Last session: 2026-05-08 Stopped at: Roadmap created and committed; ready to begin Phase 1 planning. Resume file: None — next action is /gsd-discuss-phase 1

2.7 KiB Raw Blame History