v0.2.0 — the polish wave

0.2.0 — 2026-08-14

Added

• Evolution ceremony: stage-ups dim the screen, flash a silhouette, and
  reveal the evolved pet with a name card. Skippable, ~3.2s, reduced-motion
  gets a quiet name card only.
• Lineage: past-stage heroes are archived instead of overwritten, and each
  den card shows a stage timeline.
• Diary: the pet keeps a journal — hatch day, evolutions, renames, the
  first failure of the day, 25/50/100-turn milestones, art touch-ups.
• Treats: every 10 completed turns earns a treat that drops from the top of
  the window, falls with physics, lands on the terrain, and gets eaten (+2 XP,
  a 60-second sparkle buff). Extras bank in a jar.
• Fetch: throw a pixel ball; the pet sprints it down and carries it back to
  where you threw from (+2 XP). Both treats and fetch work in the overlay and
  in the Habitat panel.
• Per-pet voices: chirps are pitched and timbred from the pet's id, so two
  pets no longer sound identical. Soft footsteps tick in time with walk frames,
  plus a quiet/normal volume dial.
• Hatchery refinement: pick a draft, type "rounder" or "make it teal", and
  the draft is redrawn in place — no full re-roll, no wasted candidates.
• Theme and seasonal accents: a subtle drop-shadow keeps sprites readable
  on light themes, and festive months pin a tiny accessory above the pet
  (togglable, off during naps and ceremonies).
• Onboarding tour: a 10-step guided walkthrough that auto-starts on first
  run, follows the pet while it demonstrates, and is re-runnable from the menu
  or the panel.
• Paw button in the sidebar for quick access to the pet's menu.
• Developer panel (setting-gated): live state/elevation/act/fps line, a
  40-entry event feed with copy-to-clipboard, and a ceremony preview.
• Accessibility: bubbles mirror into an aria-live region, and a
  high-contrast accents toggle thickens the ring and strengthens the badge.
• Reaction tiers: minor/standard/major celebrations, so ordinary
  completions stay quiet and milestones get the full burst.
• Staleness handshake: the overlay notices when the server ships a newer
  bundle and asks for a window reload.
• Retry skipped states in one click from the generation warning, cost
  hints on every button that spends API money, and glow-up nudges when
  artwork lags the pet's stage.
• Chrome inspection: the autonomy director now investigates the paw button,
  the nav row, and pane headers.
• Generation job queue: art jobs run in order and survive navigation.
• First test suite: 63 unit tests covering the atlas, the renderer core,
  personality, and quantization.

Fixed

• Resizing no longer depends on the current pose — scale is anchored to the
  idle frame, so the pet keeps its size mid-animation.
• Sleep no longer restarts its lie-down transition on every loop.
• The pet menu no longer swallows the item you were selecting.
• Silent 400s from the image API now surface as real, readable errors.
• Speech bubbles clamp to the viewport and coexist with the emotion badge.

Performance

• The render loop fully pauses while the window is hidden and drops to
  quarter-rate when the pet is provably motionless.
• Overlay and Habitat now share one renderer core instead of two divergent
  copies.
• Pruned an unused dependency from the bundle.