Tasks

Every task file under epics/*/tasks/, one page each, grouped here by epic. See /now for the short list of what's actually ready or waiting on Kris right now, and /epics for the epic board itself.

status: priority: estimate:

Barter marketplace

barter-marketplace/001 — Spec the listing/offer data model backlog priority 1 estimate M

Battle arena POC

battle-arena-poc/001 — Minimal 2-player hot-seat POC of the ley-line-pull mechanic backlog priority 1 estimate L

Building the Game — one site, the Builder, and the building blocks

building-the-game/001 — One repo, one site: the workspace merged into land-of-lor, the site on spellgrove.com review priority 1 estimate L
building-the-game/002 — The Builder's read side, and the hub pages that show every block live review priority 1 estimate L
building-the-game/003 — Sign in on the site with a game account; Kris is admin review priority 2 estimate M
building-the-game/004 — Publish: the editors on the site, the database canonical, snapshots always written, a staging stack review priority 2 estimate L
building-the-game/005 — Ask an agent from any section — browser-side kickoff via the AI Task Runner review priority 3 estimate M
building-the-game/006 — Other people editing their own Areas backlog priority 3 estimate M
building-the-game/007 — Dirt, and the things that naturally occur in an Area needs-input priority 3 estimate S

Character composition POC

character-composition-poc/001 — Propose the small hard-coded head/body/colour option set backlog priority 1 estimate S
character-composition-poc/002 — Wire a basic selection screen against the option set backlog priority 2 estimate M

Connection and sync — never pretend to be online

connection-and-sync/001 — Stop the bleeding — the sticky close flag, the unseeded watchdog, readable kicks, and no Area shut down under a player done priority 1 estimate S
connection-and-sync/002 — The client connection state machine — freeze rather than fake, reconnect visibly, give up honestly done priority 1 estimate L
connection-and-sync/003 — Server truth — every intent answered, every kick delivered, no Area shut down under a player done priority 1 estimate L
connection-and-sync/005 — Area connectivity — single_player, multiplayer, either done priority 1 estimate M
connection-and-sync/006 — Local play — your home when there is no realm ready priority 1 estimate L
connection-and-sync/008 — Ship, verify, record backlog priority 1 estimate S
connection-and-sync/004 — Observability — the connection indicator, and the phone that reports its own diagnostics done priority 2 estimate M
connection-and-sync/007 — The fault-injection harness and the soak done priority 2 estimate M

Ground look and levels

ground-look-and-levels/001 — The look — unshaded ground, sink depths, tile pointers with a flat fallback done priority 1 estimate S
ground-look-and-levels/002 — Three levels and ramp hexagrams — the edge rule, the height-field mesh, the mirrors and the editor done priority 1 estimate M
ground-look-and-levels/003 — Mountains — same-flavour stacking to a double peak, the Volcano crowning, and the kw 15 boulder done priority 2 estimate S
ground-look-and-levels/004 — Water and lava move — shader drift, shimmer, glow, shore foam, behind a toggle with a frame-time readout done priority 2 estimate S
ground-look-and-levels/007 — A flank texture for mountains — the faces are wearing floor tiles ready priority 2 estimate M
ground-look-and-levels/005 — The meanings pass with Kris, tile pointers, and the new brief for a fresh Claude Design project done priority 3 estimate M
ground-look-and-levels/006 — v3 tiles in — kit renders, in-game shots, judged, shipped review priority 3 estimate M

Ground types

ground-types/001 — The model — a hexagram is a ground type, in every runtime done priority 1 estimate M
ground-types/002 — Storage, hydrate, wire — areas.ground, the hydrate file, hello_ack, protocol 4 done priority 1 estimate L
ground-types/003 — Client rendering, stage 1 — the lattice mesh, sunken cells, mountains, and people standing in water done priority 1 estimate L
ground-types/004 — Client rendering, stage 2 — textured transitions, and the renderer check on web and phone done priority 1 estimate M
ground-types/005 — Content pipeline — ground files, the loader, presets, and the six painted Areas done priority 1 estimate M
ground-types/007 — The area map editor — paint an Area's ground from the world editor done priority 1 estimate L
ground-types/008 — Verify, deploy, ship — the ground goes live, on the web and on the phone done priority 1 estimate M
ground-types/006 — The looks — tune the eight ground types and their 64 variations done priority 2 estimate M

Kickstarter pre-launch page

kickstarter-prelaunch/001 — Draft the pre-launch page copy backlog priority 1 estimate M

Naming and brand

naming-and-brand/001 — Publish the Copyright & IP notice page needs-input priority 2 estimate S
naming-and-brand/002 — Run the game-name poll needs-input priority 2 estimate S

Object system experiments

object-system-experiments/001 — Drive one creature's shape/colour from trigram input backlog priority 1 estimate M

Public site and comms

public-site-and-comms/001 — Consider porting land-of-lor/docs/historic/ artifacts into the deliverables log as backdated entries backlog priority 3 estimate M

Server architecture

server-architecture/001 — Field-simulation scaling memo done priority 1 estimate M
server-architecture/004 — Stage 0 — spec approved done priority 1 estimate S
server-architecture/005 — Stage 1 — director service + Postgres + protocol (no Godot) done priority 1 estimate L
server-architecture/010 — Real accounts — sign up, log in, and attach a device to an existing account done priority 1 estimate L
server-architecture/013 — Account-first boot flow, character-seed placeholder, and client robustness done priority 1 estimate L
server-architecture/021 — Single-identity accounts + unified account screen done priority 1 estimate L
server-architecture/002 — Server runtime/engine options memo done priority 2 estimate M
server-architecture/006 — Stage 2 — Godot headless world server with grid movement done priority 2 estimate L
server-architecture/007 — Stage 3 — Godot client with prediction and reconciliation; two clients done priority 2 estimate L
server-architecture/011 — Google Play Games sign-in on Android needs-input priority 2 estimate M
server-architecture/012 — Set up Resend for real account emails needs-input priority 2 estimate S
server-architecture/014 — Server hardening batch — the 010 audit's security fixes done priority 2 estimate M
server-architecture/015 — First iOS build — run the game on an iPhone from Kris's Mac done priority 2 estimate S
server-architecture/016 — Split PUBLIC_BASE_URL into EMAIL_VERIFY_BASE_URL and LINK_CODE_BASE_URL done priority 2 estimate S
server-architecture/018 — Register spellgrove.com and set it up for the site and email needs-input priority 2 estimate M
server-architecture/019 — Account screens redesign — two panels, and this device's remembered logins done priority 2 estimate M
server-architecture/020 — Apple Game Center sign-in on iOS needs-input priority 2 estimate M
server-architecture/003 — Tick-rate / real-time-vs-lazy-evaluation memo done priority 3 estimate S
server-architecture/008 — Stage 4 — interest management, creatures, flow-field pathfinding at scale done priority 3 estimate L
server-architecture/009 — Android APK export & download link done priority 3 estimate M
server-architecture/017 — Password reset by hand — a support address, not self-service backlog priority 3 estimate S
server-architecture/022 — Multiple characters under one login backlog priority 3 estimate L

Server instance

server-instance/001 — Provision the droplet via the DigitalOcean API and run deliverable #4's setup done priority 1 estimate M

Spell-crafting interface

spell-crafting-interface/001 — Low-fidelity mockups of the two crafting-interaction metaphors backlog priority 1 estimate S
spell-crafting-interface/002 — Prototype visual treatment for keyed vs. open slots backlog priority 2 estimate S

The element table

element-table/001 — Author the element table — names and properties for all 64 backlog priority 1 estimate L
element-table/003 — Author the element definitions in the card editor backlog priority 1 estimate M
element-table/002 — Conversion-flow POC — the fold-back made visible done priority 2 estimate M

The game interface — first brush

game-interface/001 — Claude Design brief for the first interface pass done priority 1 estimate S
game-interface/002 — Element-card renderer, seeded table data, and the card editor done priority 1 estimate M
game-interface/003 — Game shell — title screen, HUD, Ingredients view over the live world, deployed done priority 1 estimate M
game-interface/004 — Android build is missing the whole interface — shell is DOM-only, APK ships the bare 3D world done priority 1 estimate L

Workspace dashboard

workspace-dashboard/001 — Secrets audit — current tree and full git history, both repos done priority 1 estimate M
workspace-dashboard/002 — Blocker/question aggregation queue done priority 2 estimate M
workspace-dashboard/003 — Authenticated control surface, separate from the public static build backlog priority 2 estimate L
workspace-dashboard/004 — Kick off an agent session against an epic, from the dashboard backlog priority 3 estimate M
workspace-dashboard/005 — Public-content intake path (never direct task input) backlog priority 3 estimate M

World map and portals

world-map-and-portals/001 — Spec the world graph — areas, portals, per-area rules, and the public/private split done priority 1 estimate L
world-map-and-portals/003 — Areas and Portals in the database, and travel between them unblocked done priority 1 estimate L
world-map-and-portals/004 — Portals you can see and walk through, and a 3D object at every one done priority 1 estimate M
world-map-and-portals/009 — Homes connect to the world, and the game gets a way out of itself done priority 1 estimate L
world-map-and-portals/010 — What playing it actually found — starting at home, closed doors, a keyboard on iPad, and the builds nobody had shipped done priority 1 estimate L
world-map-and-portals/012 — The door that went nowhere — a portal frame lost to the disconnect behind it, the test map that flashed on every launch, and your own home missing from your own map done priority 1 estimate M
world-map-and-portals/013 — Meeting yourself in the Badlands — one account, one body, per world done priority 1 estimate S
world-map-and-portals/014 — One body everywhere — entity ids move from the world to the account, and the on-screen keyboard finally runs at all done priority 1 estimate M
world-map-and-portals/015 — "World" means Area — the rename the schema promised, across protocol, database, GDScript and docs done priority 1 estimate L
world-map-and-portals/016 — The player who wasn't there — a phone in the background keeps walking against a socket that died in silence done priority 1 estimate M
world-map-and-portals/002 — The two map surfaces — a standalone map page on the website and a map screen in the game done priority 2 estimate L
world-map-and-portals/005 — The authored world of Spellgrove, its loader, and the public map endpoint done priority 2 estimate M
world-map-and-portals/006 — The two map surfaces — the public site page and the in-game screen done priority 2 estimate M
world-map-and-portals/011 — Seeing where you are — a readable Area name, "You are here" on the world map, pinch zoom, and the identity chip off the title screen done priority 2 estimate S
world-map-and-portals/007 — The entity class restructure — ComplexItem, LivingCreature, Player done priority 3 estimate M
world-map-and-portals/008 — Players pile up on the cell they arrive at backlog priority 3 estimate M

World traversal and ground

world-traversal-and-ground/001 — Write the ground & traversal design spec done priority 1 estimate M