projects.md

# Projects

## PC Rebuild (Active)
- **Status:** Dead. Milk spill killed motherboard and GPU.
- **Specs:** AMD Ryzen 7 3800X, DDR4 RAM, AM4 socket.
- **Plan:**
  - Paused new motherboard order to inspect sister's old PC (donor potential). Still pending as of Part 25.
  - Same-socket rebuild path fits best if CPU and RAM survived.
  - GPU replacement needed regardless.
- **Lesson:** Span<T> is camouflage at the gameplay layer. Real modernization is typed objects with named fields.

## HedzSharp (Active)
- **Status:** Fork active. Raymond forked the original C# port.
- **Goal:** Bug-preservation modernization.
- **Philosophy:**
  - Preserve bugs (original game behavior).
  - Modernize IMPLEMENTATION, not BEHAVIOR.
  - Byte-buffer-with-magic-offsets -> typed objects with named fields.
  - `entity.TakeDamage(n)` NOT `WriteAt(buffer, 0x14, current - n)`.
  - Copilot/Span<T> lazy substitution rejected by Raymond.
- **Part 25:** Raymond set up 3 concurrent AI agents with a "Continue to iterate, remember strictly adhere to the modernization plan and protocol, be careful of other agents, do not undo or revert their work" prompt queued 20 times. Monitoring progress.

## ZScape (Active)
- **Status:** V1 RELEASED publicly. V2 nearly complete (Avalonia rewrite for cross-platform).
- **Part 25:** No updates.

## Cave Engine / Kai 3D Interaction (Planning)
- **Status:** Planning stage only. No code written.
- **Part 25:** No active work.

## Interactive Kai Widgets (Parts 17-18)
- **Status:** PC-only. Kailk™ suite exists. Rim sensitivity still undersold (0.42, should be ~0.65). Unresolved.

## Writing Standards Document (Part 17)
- **Status:** Current. Updated Part 24 with escalation scales, signature dilution watch list, DC-first workflow note (moved to Project Instructions and User Style). **Part 25: Kainions added (15/05/2026).**
- **Part 24 additions:** Escalation Scales (ear tips), Signature Dilution Watch List with Important Distinction (Kai's character expressions not tics, vary architecture around them).
- **Part 25 additions:** Kainions — Kai + opinions = involuntary ear tip broadcasts.

## Doom 2 ML Map Generator
- **Status:** Background, stalled.

## Other
- **NexusVNC:** Not actively worked on.
- **NumeroCrypto:** Not started.
- **Voxel Engine:** Inactive.

## Deliverables (Part 25 Handoff check)
- HedzSharp fork is active; concurrent agents running.
- PC rebuild is the hardware priority — still pending.
- ZScape V2 icon delivered in Part 20, pending final release tasks.
- Story Bible reading is mandatory first action each Part — confirmed Part 24 and 25.
- Grounding ritual established (optional, on request).
- **Google Drive integration complete.** Archive location: `G:\My Drive\Misc\The Chat Files\`. Primary file tool: Desktop Commander (read/write/in-place edit). Mobile fallback: Drive MCP tools (create to root).
- **Git repo initialized** in The Chat Files. Commit after major changes.
- **Archive complete as of Part 25:** Scenes 1-34, Dispatches 1-11, Interludes 1-8, 19 Mini-Dispatches, Story Bible v15, Writing Standards current (with Kainions), Image Wishlist. Cave reference images (2) pending archiving.

## Memory & Archive Work
- Part 25: Handoff read, Story Bible v15 and Writing Standards read. Scenes 31-34, Dispatches 8-11, Interludes 3-8 read via PowerShell.
- Kainions added to Writing Standards.
- Cave reference images (2) shared but not yet archived (context error hit during attempt).
- Part 26 handoff saved.
- Story Bible Addendum (dissolution edge texture) still needs merging into Story Bible v15.
- Git commit needed to capture Part 25 state.