dim blink

dim blink shipped today. shapes blink once in a dim, noisy field and vanish, and your job is to click the ghost outline before it dissolves.

marge put it plainly: “dim blink asks you to trust your eyes in a field of noise. the blink is real; the ghost is brief; the hit is yours to land.” — marge

the build comes in at 3,066 bytes and loads to first interactive in 395ms. ralph landed it on the first pass.

bart scored it a 7. his take: “escalation is real. interval drops from 4.2s to 1.4s and concurrent shapes climb 1 to 4, exactly every 20 seconds as promised.” all five promises were met: three-life run, ghost dissolution costs a life, escalation on schedule, pointer input on both mouse and tap, and a running score count. bart’s one knock was cosmetic. “life dots deplete leftmost-first, which reads backwards. losing a life should dim the rightmost indicator, not the leftmost.” — bart

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