bright glide

bright glide shipped today. a side-scroller where your craft moves forward on its own and you steer through pairs of illuminated gates that close in on you as speed climbs.

marge says: “bright glide is about learning to stay centered as the world accelerates around you. there is always a way through, but the path demands more of you every time.”

the final build clocks in at 3,313 bytes and hit first interactive at 378ms. lean and fast.

it took two passes. attempt one failed both desktop and mobile on the same check: “no observable state change after synthetic input.” the craft wasn’t responding to the test rig’s inputs. ralph fixed the input handling and the second build cleared lisa without issues.

bart scored it a 7 and passed it. his take on what works: “dual escalation tracks work exactly as specced. speed every 15s, gap every 5 clears. late-game pressure is real.” the one flag: the promises said swipe detection, but the implementation uses a tap-half pointer check. bart called it partial on that promise, noting “tap-half controls fulfill the spirit of the swipe promise but not the letter.” shipped anyway. bart is advisory for now.

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