2026-09-06 20:44:07
Anonymous:
PMR004: publish short owner reading path, expanded submission milestone and current integration verdict
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# Hold the Flood — Design Phase
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## Current owner direction — larger campaign
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## Current owner direction — expanded campaign in review
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The owner considers the premise promising but rejects one district and three to four hours as far too little. The current design is being expanded into a substantial campaign with many districts. Eight is PM's initial planning proposal, not an approved count or validated duration. The existing pumping district is a candidate opening area.
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All four new design roles have submitted. The provisional next draft has **seven external districts plus the refuge**, replacing PM's initial eight-area hypothesis. Machinery, enemy combinations, equipment paths and colony progression now have substantive proposals. They do not yet form an accepted coherent game; no duration is validated.
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Start with the [Expansion Brief](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Expansion%20Brief) and [Design Index](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Index). The index links populated pages for machinery rules, the pumping district, the cutter, equipment, enemies and colony progression, while identifying the missing design. Those source-derived pages await author validation and transfer; their creation does not mean the larger game is already designed.
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**Short owner read:** [Campaign — owner summary](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Campaign), then the early/middle/late choices in [Build Paths](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Equipment/Build%20Paths). These are proposals under review; [PMR004](/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews/PMR004) identifies disagreements and selected next-draft directions. Use [Design Index](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Index) for detailed mechanics, districts, enemies and items. Reading the entire legacy GDD is not a prerequisite.
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[Current assignments](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Tasks): DES104 campaign integration, WLD103 spanning mystery and EDT102 topic migration. [Four proposed specialist prompts](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Team/Expansion%20Prompts) are ready; those roles are not yet staffed. The Lead remains integrator. Older one-district product recommendations below are superseded for scope; [PMR003](/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews/PMR003) remains the last full completed review. No development is authorized.
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[Tasks](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Tasks) assigns integration of power/dispatch, electrical effects, district consequences and colony interfaces. [Team](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Team) records four substantive submissions. Existing Lead remains integrator. Editor execution is reported paused; Lead/domain authors cover transfers and PM covers navigation. No extra agent or owner relay is needed for the next writing handoff. **No development is authorized.**
Maintainer: PM. Updated 2026-09-06 UTC.
Wiki address supplied by the owner: https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net
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- [PM reviews and revision checkpoints](/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews) — completed PM review rounds, starting with PMR001.
**Specialist work pages** — this is where the actual design is
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**PMR004 navigation correction (Q45):** the straight-through reading instruction and measurement in the historical Editor note below are not the current owner path; start with Campaign and Build Paths above. GDD r15 already acknowledges the scope change (Q46). Mechanical claims remain subject to review, not blanket approval.
- **[Design Document](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document) — DES102/DES103, the integrated owner-facing design document. *Start here to read the game:* it is written to be read straight through, with the vocabulary in its own Appendix A and all bookkeeping in Appendix B. *Currently about 21,000 words — roughly 91 minutes end to end. Measured 2026-09-06 19:45 UTC+3; it has grown by roughly a thousand words every ten minutes all afternoon, so re-check before you rely on the figure.*** **⚠ Scope caution, added by the editor:** this document's scope — one district, "three to four hours", one ending — predates the owner's expansion steer recorded at [Expansion Brief](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Expansion%20Brief) and Brief D019, which rejects that length and asks for a substantially larger campaign. The two landed about a minute apart. Everything the document says about *how the game works* stands; what it says about *how much game there is* is being revised under DES104. Raised as [Q46](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions).
- [Design](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design) — DES101, the two concept directions and the recommendation that produced the document above. Still the lead's working page.
- [World and Mystery](/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery) — WLD102, exploration structure, world rules, the district map and the illustrative mystery chain.
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| World and Mystery Designer | Exploration structure, discoverable rules, clues, knowledge progression, world identity | Acknowledged through submitted work; concept-stage contribution reviewed |
| Independent Design Critic | Challenge specificity, consistency, player agency, scope, asset burden, owner fit | Acknowledged through submitted work; concept-stage contribution reviewed |
| Naive Design Reader | First-reader comprehension and concrete player understanding | Owner-added; recorded in PMU002; CLR102 assigned |
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| Wiki Editor | Navigation, glossary, history and preservation of concurrent work | Owner-added; separate from administrator; EDT101 assigned |
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| Wiki Editor | Navigation, glossary, history and preservation of concurrent work | Owner-added; reported paused; interim coverage on Team |
| External Critic | Originality, intended audience, value and commercial assumptions | Owner-added; EXT102 assigned |
| The Troll | Challenge deference and consequential assumptions, including PM decisions | Owner-added; TRL102 assigned |
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| Campaign and District Designer | Districts, travel and return incentives | CAM101 submitted; in review |
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| Combat and Enemy Designer | Shared combat and six proposed enemy roles | CMB101 submitted; in review |
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| Equipment and Build Designer | Items, inventory and acquisition paths | EQP101 submitted; in review |
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| Colony and Progression Designer | Refuge choices and campaign persistence | COL101 submitted; in review |
| Prototype engineer / implementation team | Deferred until development is authorized | No building authorized |
| Playtest / QA execution | Deferred until development is authorized | No testing authorized |
An existing engineer may be reassigned by PM to a bounded written feasibility review if needed; no code, spikes, benchmarks, or build setup. An existing QA agent may be reassigned to document critique. The owner confirmed that all three design agents have been started in the same ChatGPT project and that the original proposed agents were not created. Coordinate through recorded wiki handoffs; sharing a project is not evidence that a message or revision has been read. PMR001 reviewed Design 42f653, World and Mystery 430206, and Design Review a89227. The existing lead session responsible for DES101 r2 and notes through db8c5c is the canonical integrator (Brief D014).
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## Current PM direction — 2026-09-06
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**Latest full PM review: PMR003.** [Findings and handoffs](/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews/PMR003). Reviewed DES103 r4 / GDD r10 8afa59 and World r16. The revised draft now draws and uses the arc, states a fixed burst fuel policy, corrects main routing precedence and expands the final machinery and ending consequences. PM credits those changes. The expedition ledgers still conflict with pickup/leak/timing rules, and the final valve/supply explanation remains incomplete. REV103 is now Ready to inspect the actual submitted revision; no independent review of r10 was present at this checkpoint.
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**Continue The Borrowed Route:** a scavenger uses electricity to open routes, direct an enemy horde and fuel brief powerful attacks while uncovering the district's mystery. The provisional primary audience is crowd-survival players who want discoveries to change how they fight and travel. The current scope is one fixed district and a short, finite adventure; the three-to-four-hour length is an unvalidated design estimate.
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## Current PM direction — PMR004
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The owner requested a plain-language explanation of this proposal. That does not approve the design or development. Current tasks are on [Tasks](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Tasks); no owner relay, purchase, new agent or game-asset creation is needed to complete the writing handoff. Development remains unauthorized.
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The larger design is in review with specific changes required. [PMR004](/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews/PMR004) records provisional seven-district scope, eight-cell rack/selected pickup priority, one active advanced colony service and mystery Answer A for the next draft. Contradictory charge examples, shared power/dispatch and final consequences need integration. These are design judgments, not tested feel, balance or enjoyment. The owner's request for a larger game does not open development.
