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Adding content to a browser game is not free. Why the fish index hit a wall long before 172, what I had to rewrite before it could grow, and how the same fix later rescued a completely different game.
The last thing between Creature Raising Kit and release was a build that took down the editor itself, with no error and an empty output folder. What actually caused it, the human-faced creature I cut after looking through the real game camera, and the island that started out brown.
How the first balance curve failed, then a worked check of boss health, gold rewards, critical hits and prestige in the current build.
How kana length selects your soldiers, how the daily boss rotates, and how typing speed, accuracy and boss strength determine your score.
Both are repetitive finger drills, but people quit one in a week and do the other for decades. I built home-row practice as an actual instrument, then spent nearly all my time fighting audio latency.
A Swordsman buys a point of damage per second for 40 gold. The Demon God buys the same point for 500,000. Gold per DPS for all twenty units, the two that break the curve, and when to actually hit Rebirth.
Popcorn Typing looks like an idle game, so players buy the machines. I wrote the machines to be deliberately weak and never told anyone. The real engine is your hands, and here is the combo table that proves it.
My changelog is a list of problems that have never inconvenienced a living person. On making browser games for the old internet, and what maintenance means when there is no audience to maintain them for.
Every boss stat, every unit stat, and the design decision nobody would guess: the enemies never get stronger. Wave 2 is a 7.2x jump and the Demon Lord has less than half the HP of the fight before it.
Forty Cthulhu Mythos bosses, drawn by someone who is not me, for a free game with no revenue. Why the art was the one thing worth paying for, and why clicking summons instead of attacks.
Added a What's New section, on-site article pages, and embedded in-page game play. Everything is now easier to play and easier to read.