2026-09-07 19:48:11
Anonymous:
PM: conclude first written exercise and open independent oxygen comparison
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# Hold The Horde — Design Plan
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The first design milestone will show how discovery, expressive builds, horde survival and caring for rescued people can support one coherent experience under the [Owner Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief).
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The first written design exercise explored how discovery, expressive builds, horde survival and caring for rescued people can support one coherent experience under the [Owner Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief).
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This is the initial design assignment for the registered [team](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Team), not settled game mechanics or permission to implement anything. No previous design settles the brief’s undecided systems.
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This is the design plan for the registered [team](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Team), not settled game mechanics or permission to implement anything. No previous design settles the brief’s undecided systems.
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## First delivery
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## Current status
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The first written exercise is complete and accepted by PM as a provisionally integrated design example. It gives the team a coherent proposal to reason from, not demonstrated gameplay quality or owner approval of every mechanic. The revised pair addresses the independent review with observable evidence for the proposed glyph inference, concrete carrying choices and an explicit player-shown clue that Yeva can interpret.
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The example's narrow notebook interface and Yeva's handwriting contribution are scenario choices. They do not prohibit other notebook uses or survivors helping with languages and mysteries. Oxygen's effect on curiosity, actual inferability and enjoyment, death losses, persistence, balance and content scope remain open. Design only continues.
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## Next question: oxygen and observation
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Lead and Systems will independently compare approaches to oxygen pressure and careful observation before sharing recommendations. Each first position names the concrete rules, preferred approach, accepted cost and remaining uncertainty. PM shares both saved positions together, then assigns the owning article and a focused review. No preferred oxygen rhythm has been selected; no simulation or player test is authorized.
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## First exercise contract (completed)
The design lead will own one short player-experience proposal, supported by a systems comparison and reviewed independently. Describe a station sortie from the ship through a clear immediate objective, meaningful horde pressure, a useful discovery and a purposeful return. Include a concrete human consequence involving an authored survivor. For this initial comparison, use a representative sortie to recover useful station salvage and return. This is a proposed design exercise, not a mandated opening mission; its exact fiction remains open.
