State ownership
Keros arrival distance: two paths, two positions
Last Run taught a real Keros ↔ Belu warp. The return jump did not share the scripted near-dock pose.
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CONTRABAND development cases
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CONTRABAND: Edge of the Fold
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CONTRABAND development cases
Input / UX
Pointer lock vs clickable dialogue
Flight wants the mouse captured. Choice buttons 1/2 need the mouse free. Those states collided in Last Run.
Read the caseRendering / lifecycle
WebGL context lifecycle: dispose is not free
Shipyard, lock hologram, 3D map, hangar, and inventory each opened a GPU context. The flight canvas paid the bill.
Read the caseEconomy / progression
Survival progression: threshold, duplicates, difficulty
Hull unlocks, kill pay, and ten difficulty profiles had to stay independent contracts.
Read the caseRelease engineering
Release gates: QA, cloud, then a build
A Steam App ID on the store is not a substitute for a local gate that can fail.
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