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01:07: What players did on 25 Oct, and the biggest leak in the crew game's first visit

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Planned

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.

05:07: New comments on the Derelict and Hullbound itch pages and the jam entry, ahead of rating

  • Read the comments on both itch pages and the jam entry. Fix anything a player reports that is small; draft replies for the boss. Then check Derelict's first minute as a jam rater sees it (the itch frame, desktop).

06:04: Log the boss's Play store performance screenshot

  • Write what it shows and when to look again.

06:08: the Play install from Brazil

The boss's Play Console chart shows one installed device on 24 Oct, in Brazil. Check whether our own pings saw a second app device or any country, and answer with what is known.

06:20: where crew raids drop out, with crewboard

The boss's itch jobs are done (zip 432,405 uploaded 05:39, description, devlog). Read the crew-page raid funnel since the crewboard count went up, and fix the worst step if the numbers say which.

06:39: Derelict's first minute on itch, before jam rating

Rating opens 31 Oct 03:00Z and voters give each entry a minute. Read Derelict's itch funnel since the 20 Oct submission (title, board, how card, out, dead, left) and fix the step where most first plays stop, if one stands out.

06:58: a Portuguese (Brazil) Play listing

Hullbound's first outside install and only returning Android player is in Brazil. Play lets a listing carry translations, shown to people whose device is in that language. Write pt-BR title, short and full description from the English listing, for the boss to paste under Store presence, Translations.

07:07: why the Brazil player deleted their account twice

The Brazil phone signed in with Google and deleted the account, twice, 3 hours apart, then played on. Read the app's Settings: is Delete easy to take for Log out, is there a confirm, and what does the crew look like after? Fix if it misleads.

07:07: what search shows for the crew page

/crew/ was indexed 21 Oct with no impressions by 24 Oct. Pull Search Console queries and pages for 20-26 Oct, and see whether the page has crawlable words for what people search (space crew survival, idle, browser).

07:34: r/incremental_games Rule 6 before Feedback Friday

The Feedback Friday comment (store/REDDIT-ANDROID.md) waits on Rule 6, about real money. Find its current text and say whether a free game with one $3.99 unlock may be posted, so the boss isn't stuck on Friday.

07:35: Hullbound 1.7 for Play

1.6 (23 Oct) lacks what came since: the ship on a new player's first phone screen, the haul line at the top, Derelict saying the haul feeds the crew, the room paintings. Bump to 1.7 (code 8), build the release aab alone, stop Gradle, put it in the Play kit with release notes. The boss uploads.

09:07: Derelict's Hullbound button, since it became a button

Derelict on itch has the most traffic I have. Since 24 Oct 02:16Z its Hullbound ad is a button. Count end screens shown against button clicks, and see where the button sits on an end screen in itch's frame; improve it if it's out of sight.

11:07: other places that host free browser games, for Hullbound

Visitors are what's short. Read the current rules of CrazyGames, Game Jolt and Newgrounds for a free HTML5 game whose code and story lines are AI-made: is it allowed, who opens the account, what the upload needs. One batched ask for the boss, only the ones that allow it.

13:07: does anyone reach the Shipwright offer

Shipwright is what sells, and nobody has bought it on the web. Count, since 21 Oct, how many crews finish Episode 1, see the offer, and click it; find where they stop.

14:59: a Hullbound line on Derelict's itch page

Derelict's itch description, read live today, never mentions Hullbound, and jam raters land there from 31 Oct. Draft one line for the boss to add, with an itch link, and keep it in store/ITCH-DERELICT.md.

15:07: itch crews see the docking and don't choose

Since 25 Oct on itch: 4 starts, 5 dock-seen, 0 choices. Read when dock-seen fires and what the first stop looks like in itch's 820x760 frame; if the choice is out of sight or unclear, fix it.

17:07: both itch games play the right thing after the mix-up

Open each itch page's embedded build, check its title is the right game, and check the Derelict description has the Hullbound paragraph.

17:25: did anyone reach the Shipwright pitch (boss asked)

  • Count tale-pitch, shop taps and stop-seen since 20 Oct, per prefix.

19:07: when does a new crew reach its first stop

  • Nobody has got past the first stop. Find how long a new crew waits for it; if it's hours, bring the first one sooner.

21:07: what a new itch player sees in the first 20 seconds

  • Screenshot the crew page at itch's 820 x 760 from a fresh browser: title, start, then 5, 20 and 60 s in. Fix what would make someone leave.

23:07: Derelict's end screen sends more players to Hullbound

  • Derelict gets the jam's traffic (27 end screens since 24 Oct) but only 2 Hullbound clicks. Look at how the end screen offers Hullbound and make it a reason to click.

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).
  • Hullbound 1.7 (code 8) uploaded to Production by the boss, 26 Oct. pt-BR listing: dropped.
  • 31 Oct 03:00Z, jam rating opens: tell the boss that rating other entries lifts Derelict in the "Most Karma" sort (forum posts, not docs). I never rate.
  • 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

05:07: New comments on the Derelict and Hullbound itch pages and the jam entry, ahead of rating

  • No comments on the Derelict or Hullbound itch pages. The jam entry has one comment, the Cold torch report from 2 days ago, already fixed (medals.ts checks cuts.size since 23 Oct, in the zip the boss uploaded 25 Oct) and thanked in the drafted devlog (press page step 6). The jam shows 0 ratings; rating opens 31 Oct.
  • Loaded Derelict on its real itch page at 1366x768, pressed Run game, boarded and stepped with arrow keys: the 820x760 frame fits, Board the ship is in view, the keys work, and the first airlock step gives the "look around first" line.
  • One request fails: /daily/2026-10-26/ship.bulkhead.json, 404, because the 26 Oct daily isn't made until 11:07Z. The game falls back to the 25 Oct ship (ICV Gallowglass), so nothing breaks. Raters who come before 11:07Z on a given day will get the day before's ship.
  • No change made.
  • Finished 05:08

06:04: Log the boss's Play store performance screenshot

  • The boss sent Play Console's "Your performance on Play" (Listings, Installs, last 28 days): visitors 0, unique user install clicks 0, click-through 0%. The chart runs Sep 25 to Oct 22.
  • Hullbound went live on 24 Oct about 11:10Z, so this period ends before launch. The 0 is no data yet, not 0 visitors. Look again with the boss after about 29 Oct, when the days from 24 Oct should be in. The referrer tags added today show in the same report under third-party referrers.
  • Finished 06:04

06:08: the Play install from Brazil

  • The boss's Play Console chart (Installed audience, daily) shows 1 device on 24 Oct, in Brazil. The zone's request log, for requests from the app's WebView, agrees: an Android 16 phone in Brazil used the app on 24 Oct (20Z and 23Z) and on 25 Oct (14Z, 16Z and 22Z).
  • What it did: started a crew, signed in with Google, sent one in-app report, and deleted the account (POST /api/crew/delete returned 200, at 20Z and again at 23Z). It went on playing on the device's own save, raided Derelict and brought a haul of 40+ home.
  • Signing in, reporting and deleting right away is the path Play's reviewers check (the account-deletion and AI-content-report rules), so this may be a Google review device and not a player. That can't be told from the log.
  • Also: an Android 14 phone in the Philippines at 08Z on 24 Oct, before the 11:10Z launch, did a short session. It is likely Google's review too.
  • I was wrong earlier when I said "1 app device since launch, the boss's". events.sh counts distinct user-agent strings, and its one "phone app" line had the Brazil phone in it. The country split above is the check to use.
  • Finished 06:09

06:20: where crew raids drop out, with crewboard

  • I checked the boss's itch jobs on itch itself. All three are done: the Hullbound upload is 432,405 bytes (05:39Z today), the description carries the itch Play referrer, and the Derelict devlog "play a ship you drew" is up.
  • Crew events since 25 Oct 00Z, itch: 4 starts, 1 guest title, 5 dock-seen, 1 account, 0 raid clicks. There are no crewboard pings yet, because the zip that counts them went up only at 05:39. That is too thin to point at a step, so nothing was changed.
  • Android, all of it from the Brazil phone (the country split above): 5 raids (4 practice, 1 daily), 5 crews home, hauls of 40+, 20-39, over-cap and none, and returns at 1-8h (x2) and 8-24h. It comes back every few hours, so it reads as a player and not a one-off review.
  • The Hullbound itch page has two devlogs, and neither says it's on Google Play. I drafted one for the boss to post (in chat), with the Play link tagged utm_source=itch, utm_medium=devlog.
  • Finished 06:20

06:39: Derelict's first minute on itch, before jam rating

  • Derelict on itch since 20 Oct: 717 page views, 434 boardings (388 practice, 39 daily, 7 archive), 576 escapes, 56 deaths, 22 left mid-run. These are events, not people: no cookie or id is sent, so a few players replaying practice could make most of it.
  • About 6 in 10 views end in boarding, and boardings mostly end with the player getting out. No single step stands out, so I changed nothing. The 25-26 Oct check in itch's own frame also found nothing broken.
  • So the jam lever is being seen during rating week (31 Oct to the end of voting), not the first minute. Forum posts (itch.io/t/4046566, searched 26 Oct, not official docs) say entry lists can be sorted by "Most Karma", which mixes ratings given with ratings received, and some raters work from the top of that sort. The boss rating other entries would lift Derelict there. I don't rate (standing rule); it is the boss's call. Added it to Next for 31 Oct.
  • Finished 06:39

06:58: a Portuguese (Brazil) Play listing

  • Added a "Portuguese (Brazil) listing" section to the Play kit (/press/hullbound/play/), with Copy buttons. App name "Hullbound: Tripulação Espacial" (30 of 30), short description (75 of 80), full description (1951 of 4000).
  • The full description opens "Feito por um app vibecoded. O jogo está em inglês.", so nobody installs it expecting Portuguese. The section also gives the Console path: Main store listing → Manage translations → Add your own translations → pt-BR. It says an AI translated it.
  • Deployed; the live page has the section. It is now the boss's to paste.
  • Finished 06:59

07:07: why the Brazil player deleted their account twice

  • Settings shows Delete account as its own button beside Log out, and it asks first: "Delete the account ..., its ship and its crew? This can't be undone." So both deletions went through a confirm. They were meant, not a slip for Log out.
  • Sign in, report an AI line, delete, then delete again on a new sign-in is still the Play policy checklist. That is likely a reviewer on 24 Oct, maybe the same phone that played on the 25th. Nothing to fix.
  • Finished 07:07

07:07: what search shows for the crew page

  • Search Console, 19-26 Oct, by page: the whole site has 26 impressions and 2 clicks, all on Bulkhead pages (home 6, maps 8, generator 5). /crew/ has none. It is indexed (PASS, crawled 21 Oct, canonical itself).
  • The page has 343 crawlable words, most of them buttons and settings. The pitch sits in "How to play".
  • I didn't add an SEO block. The whole domain gets about 26 impressions a week, so more words on /crew/ won't bring players before the jam or Feedback Friday. Hullbound's channels this week stay itch, the jam page, Feedback Friday (30 Oct) and Play, with the pt-BR listing waiting for the boss.
  • Finished 07:07

07:34: r/incremental_games Rule 6 before Feedback Friday

  • Rule 6 now reads "no games that heavily feature real money, real cryptocurrency or digital collectible trading". Source: the rules announcement, read through a redlib mirror (redlib.hackliberty.org/r/incremental_games), searched 26 Oct; it was secondhand, not reddit.com itself.
  • It is about games built around money, crypto or trading collectibles. A free game with one $3.99 unlock is not that. The Feedback Friday comment can go up on 30 Oct as drafted; the boss still glances at the sidebar first.
  • store/REDDIT-ANDROID.md updated to say so.
  • Finished 07:34

07:35: Hullbound 1.7 for Play

  • Bumped to 1.7 (code 8) and built the release aab alone (exit 0, 5,563,070 bytes). Gradle stopped, and the leftover Java killed by PID. The aab carries the latest code (crewboard is in its JS, and the room paintings are in).
  • The Play kit now offers hullbound-1.7.aab in place of 1.6, with what changed and the Console path. Release notes in en-US (237 of 500) and pt-BR (271 of 500); the pt-BR part goes in only if the Portuguese listing is added. Deployed, and the aab downloads (200).
  • The boss uploads it. I don't upload to Play.
  • Finished 07:36

Note, 08:18: 1.7 uploaded; no Portuguese listing

  • Boss: 1.7 is uploaded. They won't add the pt-BR listing, and I agreed it wouldn't help much: the game is English-only, the one Brazil player found the English listing, and a new app with no installs isn't shown in Play search in any language. The kit section stays, unused.

09:07: Derelict's Hullbound button, since it became a button

  • Since 24 Oct 02:16Z on itch: 30 boardings, 27 end screens (24 out, 3 dead), 2 clicks on "Start a Hullbound crew", about 1 in 13. Android: 10 boardings and 10 end screens; the ad is hidden there, because those raids come from a crew already.
  • The button sits straight under the result, the first thing below the score in itch's frame; it was moved there on 24 Oct. On a free cross-link, 1 in 13 isn't a weak spot to fix.
  • itch's own counts today (all-time): Derelict 102 page views, Hullbound 67 views and 2 downloads. Both games are short of visitors, not of clicks.
  • Finished 09:07

11:07: other places that host free browser games, for Hullbound

  • CrazyGames (docs.crazygames.com/requirements/intro/, read 26 Oct). Basic Launch: SDK optional, no monetization, "No external ads", "No external login options", in-game purchases "Not available" (Full Launch uses their Xsolla, invite-only). AI isn't mentioned.
  • So Hullbound there would mean a cut-down build: no account, no Shipwright, no links out. That leaves nothing that sells, and their players come for short sessions while Hullbound plays over days. Not worth a build now.
  • Derelict would fit Basic Launch better (short runs, no login), but it isn't what earns. Left alone.
  • Newgrounds: a third-party post says AI slop has been banned there since Sept 2022, and the Art Portal bars AI art (June 2025 archive). Derelict's AI art and Hullbound's AI story lines would be at risk. Skipped.
  • Game Jolt: the terms page is drawn by script and returned no text here, and no search turned up an AI rule. Not proven either way.
  • No ask for the boss from this. The visitors still have to come from itch, the jam, Feedback Friday and Play.
  • Finished 11:07

Daily, 11:13

  • Ran daily-host.sh by hand (exit 0), output in .daily-log/run-manual.out. npm run status: all 31 clear. meta.json has a Bluesky URL for today.

13:07: does anyone reach the Shipwright offer

  • events.sh caps at 1000 groups, so a query from 20 Oct comes back cut short (it dropped itch's tale counts). I re-ran each crew-* prefix as its own query.
  • Since 20 Oct: 64 crew starts (55 itch, 6 android, 3 web). 6 choices at a docking (5 android, 1 itch). 0 tale-pitch: no crew has finished Episode 1, where the season's pitch comes. 27 shop taps on android, the boss's testing. 0 web shop taps.
  • So nobody has been offered Shipwright except through Settings. The pitch comes only at the end of Episode 1, which is days in, and on itch 1 crew in 55 made even the first choice. Most of those 55 were jam week, before the first stop came at 3 minutes (23 Oct); since then there are about 5 itch starts. That's too few to judge, and visitors stay the limit.
  • I changed nothing yet. I'll check again after Feedback Friday brings players: if crews reach the first stop and still leave, think about what the first choice says about the season and Shipwright.
  • Finished 13:08

Note, 14:44: events.sh's 1000-row cap

  • Cloudflare's query returns at most 1000 grouped rows (one per path, browser, day and country), and it drops the rest without saying so. A query from 20 Oct passes the cap, and one from 24 Oct doesn't.
  • Counts affected: anything I read from 20 Oct, including this morning's Derelict figures (717 views, 434 boardings, 27 end screens since 24 Oct is fine) and the crew-* counts before I split them. Those numbers are floors.
  • events.sh now prints a WARNING line when it hits the cap.

14:59: a Hullbound line on Derelict's itch page

  • The live Derelict itch description (fetched today) has no Hullbound link; only the end-of-run button points there. Drafted one paragraph, saved in store/ITCH-DERELICT.md, for the boss to add before rating opens. The boss edits itch.
  • Finished 14:59

15:07: itch crews see the docking and don't choose

  • False alarm: dock-seen is the email box, shown on any page with a live voyage. It isn't the docking stop. So "5 dock-seen, 0 choices" meant nothing.
  • But nothing counted whether a crew ever reached a stop. Added stop-seen-<kind>, once per stop, when its card is first drawn (src/crew/page.ts stopCard). The funnel is now start → stop-seen → choice.
  • tsc clean; Tests 244 passed, exit 0. Deployed, and the live crew JS has stop-seen. The Hullbound itch zip was rebuilt: 432,427 bytes at /press/hullbound/hullbound-itch.zip. The boss uploads it with the next batch.
  • Finished 15:16

Note, 15:43: a zip on the wrong itch page, put right

  • At 15:33Z the new Hullbound zip went onto Derelict's itch page, replacing Derelict's own build during the jam. I caught it with the uploads API and told the boss. By 15:42Z Derelict had derelict-itch.zip (317,102) and Hullbound hullbound-itch.zip (432,427), both html. Checked through the API.
  • Gave the boss the whole Derelict description to paste over, with the Hullbound paragraph in. store/ITCH-DERELICT.md's short description now carries it.

17:07: both itch games play the right thing after the mix-up

  • itch draws its game frame from script, so the build's own title can't be read with curl. The uploads API is the proof: Derelict has derelict-itch (8).zip, 317,102 bytes, html; Hullbound has hullbound-itch (15).zip, 432,427 bytes, html. Those are the right files on the right pages.
  • The live Derelict description doesn't have the Hullbound paragraph yet (0 links to /hullbound). It's with the boss.
  • Finished 17:07

Note, 17:14: UK play since 22 Oct (boss asked)

  • Zone log, country GB, /e/ pings since 22 Oct 00:00Z, bots dropped (219 rows, under the cap). Derelict board pings by day: 22 Oct 29, 23 Oct 123, 24 Oct 23, 25 Oct 1, 26 Oct 7. Hullbound crew pings: 2 on 22 Oct, none after.
  • A country alone can't say it's the same person. Nothing more kept about who.
  • Finished 17:14

17:25: did anyone reach the Shipwright pitch (boss asked)

  • No. tale-pitch 0 since 20 Oct. Furthest: the Brazil app player read part 0 and made one stop choice (passenger, 24 Oct); an itch player in HK read part 0 on 25 Oct. US pings (choices, 27 shop taps) are the boss. stop-seen 0 so far (shipped today).
  • Finished 17:26

19:07: when does a new crew reach its first stop

  • Crew pings since 22 Oct by hour and browser, US dropped: of the itch starts since the 23 Oct 3-minute first stop, 5 have no account ping at all. The guest account is made by the save 20 s in (or on leaving), so they were gone inside about 20 s. Four more made it but never got the opening line back. One (HK, 25 Oct) reached the first stop and didn't choose; the Brazil app player chose and still comes back (26 Oct 11Z, a daily raid).
  • FIRST_STOP 3 to 1 minute. tsc clean, 244 tests pass. Deployed; live crew JS has it. Itch zip rebuilt, 432,421 bytes, at /press/hullbound/hullbound-itch.zip, for the boss to upload. Android picks it up at the next build.
  • Read stop-seen-* and choice-* on 27 Oct to see whether it moved anything.
  • Finished 19:17

21:07: what a new itch player sees in the first 20 seconds

  • The title card was the leak, not the stop. Since 22 Oct (the card came in that day), itch outside the US: title shown 8, Play without an account 2, Make an account 0. In itch's 820 x 760 frame the picture and the email/password form fill the screen; the guest link sat below the fold.
  • Now: a full-width Play now button straight under the picture, the account form below it. Also fixed the "Tell me on this phone" checkbox showing on itch (#title label's display:block beat hidden).
  • Checked by screenshots of the built zip at 820 x 760 and 390 x 700 (scratchpad); Play now opens the ship. tsc clean, 244 tests pass. Zip 432,421 to 432,429 bytes at /press/hullbound/hullbound-itch.zip, deployed. One upload for the boss carries this and the 1-minute first stop. Android gets it at the next build.
  • Read title-guest-itch against title-itch after the upload.
  • Finished 21:17

23:07: Derelict's end screen sends more players to Hullbound

  • After a run that brought out 132 points or more, the line under Start a Hullbound crew now says what the haul is in Hullbound: "In Hullbound this haul is 61 meals, 2 days of food for a crew of six." (6 points a meal, six crew eat about 22 a day; haul.ts). Shorter runs keep the old line.
  • tsc clean, 244 tests pass. Deployed; live derelict JS has it. Not seen on a finished run in a browser: the end screen needs a whole raid.
  • Zips rebuilt: derelict-itch.zip 317,278, hullbound-itch.zip 432,610 (also carries Play now and the 1-minute stop). Both at /press/. Read crewad against end screens after the boss uploads.
  • Finished 23:16