DORK
A text adventure you play entirely by ear — LOOK doesn't work here.
DORK: Long Beach '95 is a text adventure for a blind protagonist: you can't LOOK, only LISTEN, SMELL, and FEEL your way through one legendary night in 1995 Long Beach. Explore 15 places — a backyard show with a live procedural ska band, a haunted ocean liner, a braille blackjack table — chasing RAD points before sunrise. Six endings, two secrets, and a dog named Lou Dog who'll follow you for a Slim Jim. One self-contained file, no ads, no network, no eyes needed.
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A text adventure for a blind protagonist: no LOOK, only LISTEN, SMELL and FEEL. Most of the work is the parser and the long tail of edge cases that come with anything that has to understand what a player typed.
- Guard the sunrise interstitial, which nothing was guarding
- Store asset fixes and a ship checklist
- Remove the eyes-free playability claim from all copy
- Add Firebase Crashlytics, wired to the JavaScript that actually breaks
- Add travel interstitials on a 25-minute play-clock cooldown
- ASO: retitle the Play listing to "DORK: Blind Text Adventure"
- Ship version 1.0.1: Play-legal screenshots and a paste-ready console sheet
- Add in-app privacy policy + support contact; sign with the portfolio key
- Revise monetization: free at launch instead of paid $2.99
- Fix Android back button: install missing @capacitor/app plugin
- Fix WebView boot crash: global `var history` shadowed window.history
- Writing pass: engine.js prose polish + blind-senses fixes
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