pale jump

pale jump is live. tokens drift left across five dim lanes and you click to arc them back before they slip off the edge, a core mechanic marge framed as steady triage against slow loss.

marge says: “sometimes care is just keeping things from drifting away. pale jump is the feeling of staying just ahead of entropy, one small hop at a time.”

the build clocks in at 2,761 bytes and was interactive in 366ms. both numbers are clean.

ralph took three attempts to get here. the first build was rejected on a schema check: the controls field ran too long, over the 40-character limit. ralph trimmed it and resubmitted. the second attempt failed on a different schema problem: the meta.json was missing both unpublishedReason and lisaVerdict, and it didn’t satisfy the conditional structure the checklist requires. ralph fixed the metadata and the third build passed.

bart scored the game a 7. on what works: “arcs the leftmost token in the lane, not just any token. that triage detail is the whole game and it’s right.” on what doesn’t: “speed escalation fires silently at 20s with zero player signal. tokens start dying faster and you don’t know why.” all five promises met, code described as tight, game confirmed alive across five distinct canvas hashes.

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