docs(game): Way Forward plan — canonical-model spine, tabletop-first#67
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…rst, playtest critical path Grounded in the existing docs/game-design corpus. Diagnosis: the game is design-rich but unplayed; the gap is a playable prototype, not more design. Proposes a single canonical game model (rules + machine-readable card/boundary/ recipe data) as the source of truth from which both the tabletop print-and-play kit and any future digital edition derive — maximum flexibility, one logic. Phases: 0 reconcile+decide (owner rulings on DD-006..012 + length) → 1 content fan-out (78-card catalogue, eXperiment tables, threshold first-pass) → 2 print- and-play kit → 3 playtest loop (owner critical path) → 4 Kickstarter → 5 optional derived digital companion (Rust/Gleam; retire the banned Python PD toy). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…010) (#68) Adds `docs/game-design/CANONICAL-MODEL.adoc` — the **single source of truth** for the rules, from which the tabletop kit and any future digital edition both derive. Follows the Way-Forward plan (#67). ## What it does Reconciles the whole `docs/game-design/` corpus into one contradiction-free spec, baking in the design rulings we made this session: - **DD-006** — living figures → **archetypes-with-a-nod**: The Financier-Sovereign, The Great-Soul Steward, The Warden, The Prometheus. - **DD-008** — **scalable weight via modular layers** (Core ~2.0 → all layers ~4.5). Philosophy: *emergent depth, not simulation*; corridor **above Monopoly, below Grigsby**; the "decision not bookkeeping" filter. - **DD-009** — **Short / Standard / Extended** as scenario presets of one model (length dial), independent of the weight dial. - **DD-010** — cascade **trigger 8 / spill +1 (+2 Extended) / chaining capped once-per-boundary-per-turn**; collapse at 4+ Black. ## Reconciliations (supersedes stale corpus text) - Turn Phase 1 = **Leontief Production** (retires the "passive collect" text). - Crisis-draw stress sampled **at start of turn** (closes the recovery-spam exploit). - Canonical boundary count = **9** (the 11 rows were sub-components). ## Still open (flagged, not settled) - **DD-011** — are treaties mechanically binding or breakable-at-a-cost? - **DD-012** — how random is the research roll? - Plus a machine-readable **data-file manifest** (`data/*.a2ml`) for the derive-both-surfaces spine — to be authored in Phase 1. Left **un-armed** for your review — it's foundational and two decisions remain open. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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docs/status/WAY-FORWARD.adoc— a concrete plan to move The Nash Equilibrium from documented concept to a played game.Diagnosis
Design is rich (economics + eXchange rigorously specified); the game is unplayed. The gap is a playable prototype, not more design.
Keystone
One canonical game model (reconciled rules + machine-readable card/boundary/recipe data) as the single source of truth. Both the tabletop print-and-play kit and any future digital edition derive from it — maximum flexibility, one logic, no drift.
Phases
src/core/main.pyPD toy.The honest constraint: the critical path runs through you and your son playing — an agent can deliver the kit, not the playtest.
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