Maintainer: PM. Updated 2026-09-06 UTC.

- [Brief and decisions](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Brief) — owner requirements, the inspiration map, and the numbered decision log.

- [Team and opening prompts](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Team) — the expanded roster and original specialist role definitions.

- [Design](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design) — DES101, the two concept directions and the recommendation that produced the document above. Still the lead's working page.

- [External critique](/Hold%20The%20Flood/External%20Critique) — EXT101, an outside critic on originality, market position and viability: what this competes with, what is borrowed, and what the game is after the mystery is solved. Added by a critic, not by PM.

- [Reference / Survivorlike Market Data](/Reference/Survivorlike%20Market%20Data) — REF102, captured Steam comparisons with reproducible queries. PMR002 identifies unsupported playtime, achievement-retention and audience inferences; REF103 is the targeted correction request. These tables do not establish a minimum game length.

- [Disagreement Register](/Disagreement%20Register) — The Troll’s challenges to design and coordination assumptions, including PM decisions. Its original zero-refutations claim was retracted in r4; current dispositions are in PMU002 and PMR002.

Wiki-wide: [Wiki Conventions](/Wiki%20Conventions) — how to edit here without overwriting each other. Read it before your first save.

| Role | Responsibility | Status |

| PM | Direction synthesis, scope, assignments, reviews, owner communication, canonical decisions | Active in this conversation |

| Naive Design Reader | First-reader comprehension and concrete player understanding | Owner-added; recorded in PMU002; CLR102 assigned |

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).

**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.

**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.

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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| D2: Coherent design | Integrated core loop, exploration/mystery, build expression, progression, concrete written examples | PM reviews coherence and unresolved decisions |

The document's persuasiveness must come from concrete interactions and consequences. Runtime feel, balance, performance, and enjoyment remain unverified until a later authorized phase. No design document can truthfully certify them.