ScubaWord — Progress Record

6New reef collections

60New production stickers

70Keyboard-pack stickers

171Regression checks passed

Interval

A production-hardening pass opened the way for the full collectible system.

The work followed a deliberate sequence: secure the campaign and save paths, remove avoidable rendering and memory pressure, clarify how site-level vocabularies roll up to reef-wide variety, then complete the remaining poster collections and connect their rewards to the Messages keyboard. Follow-up prompts were especially important: they turned a broad content request into tested runtime collections, prompted a complete reference sheet, exposed the keyboard-pack gap and then closed it.

Direction of travel

How the work evolved.

Each step connects the user’s prompt to the practical change it produced.

Stabilised

Protect campaign starts and player progress

Prompt: Begin the first priority item from the previously agreed stability list.

Outcome: Repeated rapid input can no longer launch more than one campaign. Background grid preparation is cancellable and prioritises the selected dive, while damaged or unsupported progress data is quarantined and recoverable from a last-known-good backup.

Optimised

Move expensive work out of active rendering

Prompt: Complete the second priority item: the performance work.

Outcome: Transition effects are prepared once per event, globe textures load asynchronously with cancellation and shared caching, a miniature live globe became a static approved thumbnail, large artwork is downsampled away from the main interface thread, and fatal production assumptions now fall back to playable content.

Clarified

Separate site pools from reef-wide variety

Prompt: Resolve whether the vocabulary target is 250 words or at least 1,000 words per reef.

Outcome: Each site retains a focused 250-word playable pool. Across a five-site reef those assignments provide 1,230 unique words after limited sharing, while the six-site Great Barrier Reef provides 1,474 unique words.

Produced

Complete the remaining six poster collections

Prompt: Create production poster artwork and sticker collections for every unfinished reef.

Outcome: Six region-specific collections gained wide and portrait backgrounds, 10 transparent marine-life stickers each, carefully placed poster layouts, unlock milestones, gem prices, scientific names and facts. The product now has seven complete poster collections and 70 stickers.

Documented

Make the entire sticker system reviewable at a glance

Prompt: Regenerate a reference sheet showing every sticker.

Outcome: A full-resolution sheet now presents all 70 exact runtime assets, grouped by reef and labelled with common and scientific names. Supporting notes preserve the design rationale and provenance without changing the artwork.

Confirmed

Check that new artwork is real functionality

Prompt: Confirm whether the new poster elements are incorporated into the app.

Outcome: The poster wall selects the correct collection for every reef, shows locked stickers as silhouettes, supports gem purchases, displays owned stickers in colour with facts, and persists ownership. This review also surfaced that the keyboard still contained only the original collection.

Extended

Make unlocked stickers available in Messages

Prompt: Ensure every sticker becomes available in the keyboard pack as it is unlocked.

Outcome: All 70 stickers are now packaged for the Messages extension. Ownership is shared immediately, reread whenever the keyboard opens, and used to expose only stickers the player actually owns.

What improved

Improvements made.

Evidence-led changes grouped around the product, implementation, design and working process.

Single-start campaign protection

The campaign entry path now treats rapid repeated input as one action, preventing overlapping starts and duplicated setup work.

Cancellable, priority-aware preparation

Background grid work can be cancelled and the selected dive takes priority, reducing wasted preparation and improving responsiveness.

Recoverable save handling

Damaged or unsupported progress no longer disappears into a silent reset. It is quarantined and can recover from a known-good backup.

Lower per-frame and main-thread cost

Transition bubbles are precomputed, globe textures and display-sized artwork are prepared asynchronously, and reusable results are cached.

Playable production fallbacks

Fatal assumptions in production paths were replaced with deterministic fallback content, keeping the experience usable when inputs are imperfect.

Six region-specific collectible worlds

Each remaining reef now has a distinct environment, ten realistic marine-life stickers, curated positions, unlock logic, pricing and educational facts.

One ownership model across app and keyboard

Poster purchases update shared ownership immediately, and the Messages extension refreshes that ownership whenever it opens.

A complete visual reference

The 70-sticker reference sheet makes consistency, taxonomy and regional coverage much easier to review without substituting documentation for runtime behaviour.

Pain points

Friction, constraints and open edges.

Resolved problems are separated from constraints and work that remains open.

Known baseline

Two older fallback-content checks still fail

Two existing forced-fallback checks continue to expose a level that reuses 12 words. The same failures were reproduced before the new stability work, so they are documented baseline issues rather than regressions from this interval.

Recovered

An incorporation check was interrupted by a service error

One attempt to verify whether the new art was wired into the product ended with an external response error. A later retry completed the check and identified the remaining keyboard-pack gap.

Gap closed

The keyboard initially contained only the original ten stickers

The poster collections were functional before their 60 new stickers were registered with the Messages extension. The follow-up request expanded the extension to the complete 70-item catalogue.

Visual check pending

The Messages drawer has not yet been opened for a final visual pass

The extension build and packaged contents were verified, but the finished sticker drawer still needs a direct visual check inside Messages.

Awaiting synchronisation

The combined engineering and artwork batch is still local

The stability, performance, poster and keyboard work has been verified together but still needs its final project synchronisation before it becomes the shared baseline.

Outputs & proof

What was delivered and verified.

The interval combined targeted checks with broader regression, build, asset and interface verification. Evidence covers the stability paths, performance fallbacks, all seven poster collections, transparency across the 70-sticker catalogue, and exact poster-to-keyboard identity matching.

Verification record

Twenty-two focused checks passed for campaign-start protection, grid preparation and save recovery.
A simulator build succeeded after the performance pass, with 171 regression checks passing while the two documented baseline failures were excluded.
Five performance and fallback smoke checks and two end-to-end globe and poster interface checks passed.
The home, globe, static globe thumbnail, regional map and both ends of the poster were visually reviewed on a current large-screen phone simulator.
All nine poster-catalogue checks and the production poster navigation and rendering check passed.
The asset catalogue compiled successfully and all 70 sticker PNGs retained transparency.
The app and Messages extension both built, and the packaged extension contained exactly 70 stickers.
All keyboard stickers were at most 408 pixels and below the 500-kilobyte package limit.
Ten focused sticker checks passed, including exact identity matching between poster and keyboard catalogues.

Key decisions

Treat campaign entry as an idempotent action and prioritise the player’s selected dive over speculative preparation.

Recover progress through quarantine and a known-good backup rather than silently erasing unreadable data.

Replace recurring frame-time work with precomputation, asynchronous preparation, cancellation and shared caching.

Use a static approved globe thumbnail where a miniature live 3D scene added cost without enough player value.

Keep each playable site pool at 250 words while measuring broader variety across the complete reef.

Give every reef ten region-appropriate stickers with common names, scientific names, facts, milestones and gem prices.

Tie Messages visibility to ownership: owned stickers appear; locked and merely purchasable stickers remain hidden.

Use the exact runtime sticker assets in the reference sheet instead of regenerating lookalikes.

Visual checkpoints

Generated and edited images.

The gallery contains every distinct poster or sticker image created or derived during this interval: 12 production poster backgrounds, 60 transparent marine-life stickers and the later full 70-sticker reference sheet. Mechanical keyboard-package exports are omitted because they duplicate the same approved artwork at delivery size.

Wide underwater reef poster background for the Great Barrier Reef collection — **Great Barrier Reef — wide poster**Production panoramic environment artwork for the Great Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Portrait underwater reef poster background for the Great Barrier Reef collection — **Great Barrier Reef — portrait poster**Production portrait environment artwork for the Great Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Wide underwater reef poster background for the Caribbean collection — **Caribbean — wide poster**Production panoramic environment artwork for the Caribbean collectible poster.

Portrait underwater reef poster background for the Caribbean collection — **Caribbean — portrait poster**Production portrait environment artwork for the Caribbean collectible poster.

Wide underwater reef poster background for the Indian Ocean collection — **Indian Ocean — wide poster**Production panoramic environment artwork for the Indian Ocean collectible poster.

Portrait underwater reef poster background for the Indian Ocean collection — **Indian Ocean — portrait poster**Production portrait environment artwork for the Indian Ocean collectible poster.

Wide underwater reef poster background for the Red Sea collection — **Red Sea — wide poster**Production panoramic environment artwork for the Red Sea collectible poster.

Portrait underwater reef poster background for the Red Sea collection — **Red Sea — portrait poster**Production portrait environment artwork for the Red Sea collectible poster.

Wide underwater reef poster background for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collection — **Mesoamerican Barrier Reef — wide poster**Production panoramic environment artwork for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Portrait underwater reef poster background for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collection — **Mesoamerican Barrier Reef — portrait poster**Production portrait environment artwork for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Wide underwater reef poster background for the Pacific Islands collection — **Pacific Islands — wide poster**Production panoramic environment artwork for the Pacific Islands collectible poster.

Portrait underwater reef poster background for the Pacific Islands collection — **Pacific Islands — portrait poster**Production portrait environment artwork for the Pacific Islands collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Blacktip Shark for the Great Barrier Reef collection — **Great Barrier Reef — Blacktip Shark**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Great Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Clownfish for the Great Barrier Reef collection — **Great Barrier Reef — Clownfish**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Great Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Coral Trout for the Great Barrier Reef collection — **Great Barrier Reef — Coral Trout**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Great Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Dwarf Minke Whale for the Great Barrier Reef collection — **Great Barrier Reef — Dwarf Minke Whale**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Great Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Giant Clam for the Great Barrier Reef collection — **Great Barrier Reef — Giant Clam**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Great Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Green Turtle for the Great Barrier Reef collection — **Great Barrier Reef — Green Turtle**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Great Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Manta Ray for the Great Barrier Reef collection — **Great Barrier Reef — Manta Ray**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Great Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Octopus for the Great Barrier Reef collection — **Great Barrier Reef — Octopus**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Great Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Potato Cod for the Great Barrier Reef collection — **Great Barrier Reef — Potato Cod**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Great Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Silvertip Shark for the Great Barrier Reef collection — **Great Barrier Reef — Silvertip Shark**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Great Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of American Crocodile for the Caribbean collection — **Caribbean — American Crocodile**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Caribbean collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Elkhorn Coral for the Caribbean collection — **Caribbean — Elkhorn Coral**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Caribbean collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Goliath Grouper for the Caribbean collection — **Caribbean — Goliath Grouper**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Caribbean collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Great Hammerhead for the Caribbean collection — **Caribbean — Great Hammerhead**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Caribbean collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Longsnout Seahorse for the Caribbean collection — **Caribbean — Longsnout Seahorse**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Caribbean collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Nassau Grouper for the Caribbean collection — **Caribbean — Nassau Grouper**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Caribbean collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Queen Angelfish for the Caribbean collection — **Caribbean — Queen Angelfish**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Caribbean collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Southern Stingray for the Caribbean collection — **Caribbean — Southern Stingray**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Caribbean collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Tarpon for the Caribbean collection — **Caribbean — Tarpon**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Caribbean collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Tiger Shark for the Caribbean collection — **Caribbean — Tiger Shark**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Caribbean collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Barracuda School for the Red Sea collection — **Red Sea — Barracuda School**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Red Sea collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Giant Moray for the Red Sea collection — **Red Sea — Giant Moray**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Red Sea collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Hawksbill Turtle for the Red Sea collection — **Red Sea — Hawksbill Turtle**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Red Sea collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Longfin Batfish for the Red Sea collection — **Red Sea — Longfin Batfish**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Red Sea collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Napoleon Wrasse for the Red Sea collection — **Red Sea — Napoleon Wrasse**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Red Sea collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Oceanic Whitetip for the Red Sea collection — **Red Sea — Oceanic Whitetip**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Red Sea collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Scalloped Hammerhead for the Red Sea collection — **Red Sea — Scalloped Hammerhead**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Red Sea collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Sea Goldie for the Red Sea collection — **Red Sea — Sea Goldie**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Red Sea collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Spinner Dolphin for the Red Sea collection — **Red Sea — Spinner Dolphin**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Red Sea collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Yellowfin Tuna for the Red Sea collection — **Red Sea — Yellowfin Tuna**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Red Sea collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Bottlenose Dolphin for the Indian Ocean collection — **Indian Ocean — Bottlenose Dolphin**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Indian Ocean collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Giant Frogfish for the Indian Ocean collection — **Indian Ocean — Giant Frogfish**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Indian Ocean collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Giant Moray for the Indian Ocean collection — **Indian Ocean — Giant Moray**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Indian Ocean collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Grey Reef Shark for the Indian Ocean collection — **Indian Ocean — Grey Reef Shark**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Indian Ocean collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Hawksbill Turtle for the Indian Ocean collection — **Indian Ocean — Hawksbill Turtle**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Indian Ocean collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Leaf Scorpionfish for the Indian Ocean collection — **Indian Ocean — Leaf Scorpionfish**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Indian Ocean collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Pink Whipray for the Indian Ocean collection — **Indian Ocean — Pink Whipray**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Indian Ocean collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Reef Manta for the Indian Ocean collection — **Indian Ocean — Reef Manta**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Indian Ocean collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Seychelles Anemonefish for the Indian Ocean collection — **Indian Ocean — Seychelles Anemonefish**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Indian Ocean collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Whale Shark for the Indian Ocean collection — **Indian Ocean — Whale Shark**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Indian Ocean collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of American Crocodile for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collection — **Mesoamerican Barrier Reef — American Crocodile**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Caribbean Reef Shark for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collection — **Mesoamerican Barrier Reef — Caribbean Reef Shark**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Elkhorn Coral for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collection — **Mesoamerican Barrier Reef — Elkhorn Coral**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Hawksbill Turtle for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collection — **Mesoamerican Barrier Reef — Hawksbill Turtle**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Longsnout Seahorse for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collection — **Mesoamerican Barrier Reef — Longsnout Seahorse**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Manatee for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collection — **Mesoamerican Barrier Reef — Manatee**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Queen Conch for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collection — **Mesoamerican Barrier Reef — Queen Conch**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Splendid Toadfish for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collection — **Mesoamerican Barrier Reef — Splendid Toadfish**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Spotted Eagle Ray for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collection — **Mesoamerican Barrier Reef — Spotted Eagle Ray**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Whale Shark for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collection — **Mesoamerican Barrier Reef — Whale Shark**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Bottlenose Dolphin for the Pacific Islands collection — **Pacific Islands — Bottlenose Dolphin**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Pacific Islands collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Bull Shark for the Pacific Islands collection — **Pacific Islands — Bull Shark**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Pacific Islands collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Bumphead Parrotfish for the Pacific Islands collection — **Pacific Islands — Bumphead Parrotfish**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Pacific Islands collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Dugong for the Pacific Islands collection — **Pacific Islands — Dugong**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Pacific Islands collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Giant Trevally for the Pacific Islands collection — **Pacific Islands — Giant Trevally**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Pacific Islands collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Green Turtle for the Pacific Islands collection — **Pacific Islands — Green Turtle**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Pacific Islands collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Grey Reef Shark for the Pacific Islands collection — **Pacific Islands — Grey Reef Shark**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Pacific Islands collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Napoleon Wrasse for the Pacific Islands collection — **Pacific Islands — Napoleon Wrasse**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Pacific Islands collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Reef Manta for the Pacific Islands collection — **Pacific Islands — Reef Manta**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Pacific Islands collectible poster.

Transparent production sticker artwork of Soft Coral for the Pacific Islands collection — **Pacific Islands — Soft Coral**Final transparent marine-life sticker for the Pacific Islands collectible poster.

Reference sheet showing all seventy production marine-life stickers grouped across seven reef collections — **Complete production sticker collection**The exact runtime sticker artwork grouped by reef and labelled with common and scientific names.

Next moves & open questions

Current position.

The game now has stronger campaign and save foundations, lower-cost visual preparation, seven complete poster collections and a single 70-sticker catalogue spanning the poster wall and Messages extension. The most immediate follow-ups are a direct Messages-drawer visual check, resolution of the two older fallback-content expectations, physical-device validation and final synchronisation of the combined work.

Open the Messages drawer for a final visual passUnlock representative stickers, reopen the keyboard and verify ordering, cropping, transparency and immediate ownership refresh in the real Messages surface.
Resolve the two baseline content checksDecide whether the repeated level words are acceptable fallback behaviour or whether the content generator and expectations should be tightened.
Validate the combined work on physical devicesExercise campaign start, map and poster navigation, large artwork loading, purchases, persistence and keyboard unlocks on both compact and current phone sizes.
Synchronise the verified batchPromote the local stability, performance, artwork and keyboard work together once the final visual check is complete.