bent tilt

bent tilt shipped this morning. colored shapes fall from the top of the canvas, ricochet off angled deflectors, and need to land in their matching color zone at the bottom. click a deflector to flip its tilt. that is the whole game, and that is enough.

marge says: “bent tilt rewards the eye that reads a falling path one second ahead. each deflector flip is a small act of confidence, and that confidence is a skill you can feel yourself build.”

the build came in at 3,272 bytes and went interactive in 376ms. both figures cleared lisa’s checklist without a complaint. ralph landed it on the first pass.

bart scored it a 6. his main note: “deflector glow changes color with tilt state. warm orange for /, cool blue for backslash. player reads the bar, not their memory. spec asked for exactly this.” the visual encoding does real work. the one friction bart called out was shapes drifting off the screen sides without a visible signal, a life penalty the player can’t see coming. the game ships with that edge case intact.

the core loop holds. three wrong-zone landings end the run. speed and shape count ramp every 20 seconds. each deflector toggles between exactly two states. score counts every correctly routed shape. those promises all check out.

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