TL; DR · · · 37 people, 9 provided tablets and phones, A/B test Playtest 1 happened on Sep 29, in Dr. Berbiguier‘s K-pop class. Four things we learned Each of these showed up in more than one independent place: survey, observation sheet, and what people said out loud. ·…

TL; DR · · · V1 runs on Android The build is packaged as an APK, installed on an Android phone, and talking to the live backend. The first joint test between the two passed on Sep 23. The run, end to end: Playtest 1 is Monday, Sep 29. That’s…

TL; DR · · · Cutting V1 to one clean run Quarters gave us a build worth showing and a clear read on what wasn’t going to be finished. So we scoped V1 down to a single uninterrupted run. What moved out: Cut Where it went F9 Expression class V2…

TL; DR · · · The Opening, Rebuilt Two pieces of feedback landed last week, and both were right. The problem What we did “The two-layer world is too hard to grasp.” One world. A near future where living virtually is simply normal. No lore, no slogan, no “Aidol” label.…

TL; DR · · · The map: F1 to F13 V1 is thirteen numbered modules. Here’s the whole journey in one table. # Module What happens Status F1 Opening Storyline 60-second intro: alarm → phone → street → recruitment pop-up ✔ F2 Neural-Match Interview 8-question dialogue producing a 16-cell archetype…

TL; DR Please read project overview here before continuing. · · · We didn’t start from zero. Over the summer we built a web prototype at aidolworld.ai — the idol-training loop in its simplest possible form, running on real APIs end to end. Then we handed it to twenty or…