Week Ending 2026-09-06

Recommended Actions

• Analyze Matchy Cat and Color Cat Care recordings side by side to diagnose short-session exits and select next steps.
• Specify Mine Quest first-run funnel checkpoints for shell ready, Home, cutscene skip, and first mine entry.
• Finalize Breakfast Cooking Time implementation to establish its initial playtest baseline.
• Prepare Fruits Inc 3 farm-to-pie adaptation build for Poki playtest submission.

Sent Message

MM Weekly Planning
Generated: 2026-09-06T22:30+00:00
Window reviewed: 2026-08-31 to 2026-09-06

Current Weekly North Star
By the next review around 2026-09-16, get at least four different candidate games into fresh Poki playtests, starting with Breakfast Cooking Time, Fruits Inc 3, Matchy Cat, and Mine Quest, while allowing fast substitution if implementation uncertainty makes a candidate a poor use of limited travel-week time.

Proposed Weekly North Star
Resolve early-exit friction across Matchy Cat, Color Cat Care, and Mine Quest while advancing Fruits Inc 3 and Breakfast Cooking Time.

Success signals
- Side-by-side recording analysis determines whether Matchy Cat is parked or given a narrow onboarding repair.
- Mine Quest funnel instrumentation isolates drop-offs between black overlay, Home, cutscene, and first block break.
- Color Cat Care pacing experiment is defined to address exits around puzzles 2 and 3.
- Breakfast Cooking Time completes implementation and Fruits Inc 3 reaches playtest submission readiness.

Not this week
- Do not write new Matchy Cat code before completing the side-by-side exit analysis with Color Cat Care.
- Do not add Patience, recovery meters, or meta progression to Color Cat Care before fixing level pacing.
- Do not make uninstrumented Mine Quest gameplay changes until fresh-player drop-off points are measured.
- Do not start new web-port redesigns while My Pet Shop and portal baseline tests remain waiting.

Recommended actions
- Analyze Matchy Cat and Color Cat Care recordings side by side to diagnose short-session exits and select next steps.
- Specify Mine Quest first-run funnel checkpoints for shell ready, Home, cutscene skip, and first mine entry.
- Finalize Breakfast Cooking Time implementation to establish its initial playtest baseline.
- Prepare Fruits Inc 3 farm-to-pie adaptation build for Poki playtest submission.

Portfolio
- 30 validation snapshots; 95.85s avg; 60.5s median; 11.88% 3m reach
- 0 live rows; 0 sessions
- 154 domain events; 6 submitted-build evidence; 0 live snapshots

Actionable games
- Breakfast Cooking Time [implementing]
- Fruits Inc 3 [experiment ready] - Farm-to-Pie Fantasy Adaptation
- Matchy Cat [needs analysis] - Build011 Reverse-Requirements Station Loop
- Color Cat Care [needs analysis]
- Mine Quest [needs analysis] - First-Run Funnel Instrumentation

Approval
No MM-DOS changes have been written. Accept the plan through the normal MM-DOS flow.

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