Releases

v0.1.1 - Market Taste Cycle & Seeded Randomness

Highlights

Slow, believable market trends. Each genre now draws a long-term taste target (in fashion / ordinary / out of fashion) and holds it for 2-4 in-game years, with demand settling toward it over roughly six months. The fast noise/momentum layer runs at half strength on top, so a genre that's hot when you start a game is still hot a year later ~70% of the time (up from ~13%). The Market Pulse trend arrow now follows this long-term target instead of short-term weekly noise.
Fully seeded simulation. Every save now stores its own RNG seed. Market drift, taste shifts, the rival studio roster, and rival releases all derive from that seed via a new deterministic RNG helper (core/rng.js), so a run replays identically across save/load.
Quieter, more meaningful industry news. Rival hit/flop headlines are now limited to studios with average quality ≥ 0.6, cutting volume from ~17/year to ~6-9/year. Every release still moves the market and still shows up in the Market Pulse cause list - just not all of them make headlines.
Assist defaults tuned. Snap to hints / Auto-snap (the strongest assists) are now off by default.

Under the hood

Reworked balance/constants.js, market/market.js, rivals/rivals.js, and events/news.js for the two-layer market model and quality-gated news.
Added core/rng.js (seedable RNG) and wired seed persistence through core/state.js.
Updated README and roadmap to reflect the new market behavior and what's still pending before the v0.1.x foundation work is considered complete (full in-game balance pass, in-game verification of 0.1.0/0.1.1 features).