Back to collectionA Working Battle Contract, with Rules Still to Clarify
Background: Final Form had just settled on an auto-battler built around deck construction, and the card sketches had won internal approval. Today: BTC reached $41,900 before retreating, and someone in the studio could not resist checking the market. Consequences and next steps: What had been an outline of the gameplay now had an implementation everyone could inspect.
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Background: Final Form had just settled on an auto-battler built around deck construction, and the card sketches had won internal approval. A-Zhen, an early engineer, needed to turn the whiteboard rules into a working sequence so her colleagues could see how a battle actually ended.
Today: BTC reached $41,900 before retreating, and someone in the studio could not resist checking the market. A-Zhen nevertheless got the first version of the battle contract running on the testnet. She then asked colleagues to look for problems from card play through settlement: code that could finish a match did not necessarily make the rules clear.
Consequences and next steps: What had been an outline of the gameplay now had an implementation everyone could inspect. A-Zhen planned to record ambiguities in the rules separately from execution problems, then rerun them one by one. How complex a match this version could handle, and whether players could understand its settlement, still needed exploration.