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Background research that informs Volley!'s direction. Each doc stands alone; together they give the context behind the choices the design and art docs make.
| Doc | Purpose |
|---|---|
| The Case for Open Development | The published essay. ~15,900 words across fourteen sections plus bibliography. The case for open development as the most reliable practice for a new indie to be seen, with implications past games. |
| STYLE.md | The style guide every editor (human or agent) reads before touching the essay. Voice, forbidden tics, citation rules, narrative momentum, AI prose tells. |
| Doc | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Visual Positioning | Where Volley! sits visually among idle, desktop, and sport games. Reasoning behind the hand-drawn, live-scene direction. |
| Early Clone Games | Why Breakout's clone lineage outlasted Pong's, and what cloning shaped in the early industry. |
| Open Development Plan | Earlier internal plan that seeded the essay. |
| Folder | Tracked | Contents |
|---|---|---|
drafts/ |
no | Section files for the essay (00 title through 15 sources). Concatenated via the cat command in regen scripts to produce the published file. |
critiques/ |
yes | Critical reviews of the essay across multiple rounds. |
notes/ |
yes | Per-angle research notes the essay was built from. |
meta/ |
yes | Active planning and audit docs. BOOK-EXTENSION.md (forward-looking) and PERSUASION-AUDIT.md (open fixes) live here. |
meta/archive/ |
yes | Completed audit and research docs whose findings are baked into the essay (citation audits, misattribution audit, AI-lab follow-through, etc.). Kept as the visible audit trail for the work. |
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