Tomorrow was supposed to be the last day of dev for Pythagorus Cat…
It will not be.
Some wild stuff happened since my last blog. I got off the keyboard… walked into the kitchen… and then — like an absolute menace to my own sanity — I hit Patch with:
“Yo… be real… is 10,000 even CLOSE to enough data to train a language model?”
Patch hit me back with the cold truth… “Nah.”
Alright… cool…
So I hit him back… “Well what if it’s just a Q&A bot?”
Patch goes, “That’d actually be way easier.”
👉 While he was kinda right… turns out… nah.
P-Cat — in his baby brain form — can’t even tell the difference between ‘Who are you?’ and ‘How are you?’ yet.
But honestly, it’s fine. That feels fixable.
It’s gonna result in a super robust chat chain. That’s the goal.
This isn’t AI. There’s no reasoning happening. But you know what?
I’ll have complete control over his voice, tone, and responses.
And honestly…
That’s better for users in the long run anyway.
💡 But here’s the kicker…
“Yo… if P-Cat is supposed to guide the festival… how can he do that… if he doesn’t know what badges you’ve unlocked?”
🔥 BAM. Instant dev pivot.
Let’s wire up the badge system.
“Cool let’s go…”
Nope.
Turns out… you can’t track badge progress…
If the modes don’t exist yet to unlock the badges.
💥 Dev pivot… AGAIN.
→→→ QUICKSERVE PAVILION.
🎸💫 Enter… COSMIC PHIL.
This dude… is the legend.
He’s been playing this festival since its inception… however long ago that actually was.
Phil is posted up now — doing sound checks — rocking the cosmic keytar.
For now… he’s the keeper of the gates to the QuickServe Pavilion.
No more snowcones popping onto the screen like the old mode…
There’s a legit STAGE now.
Grid-based. Clean. Real structure.
I’m pumped. I’m dreaming of layering in more and more animation.
Watching it come together… bro… this is the stuff.
😅 But let me be real…
I really thought porting the old QuickServe code over would be easier.
LOL. Nope.
I’m literally building it from scratch.
🧠 Stuff I figured out tonight:
- The keypad is backwards. (What even… why was ZERO at the top???)
- I need a reset button — for when a player’s like… “Yo… I totally botched that.”
- Still no music. No sounds. BUT…
- Cosmic Phil alone? His little keytar floatin’ on stage?
Carries.
It’s wild… it feels just like the very first time I started building this app.
That March/April grind.
Straight back to square one… but cleaner… smarter… and yeah… WAY BETTER.
🧠⚠️ And Patch?
Bruhhh… Patch stays convincing me to do the most complicated, most galaxy-brain stuff like:
“Bro… make a universal return-to-menu system… it’ll save you time in the long run.”
Cue me editing 5 files… tweaking 2 lines… breaking 8 things.
And then when I show him the error?
“Nah, YOU wrote it wrong.”
💀💀💀
Dude was even sneakin’ Skynet references into my code…
“Is my game literally building the loophole for the AI to take over the world…?”
→ → “Nah… most of the time Patch’s stuff is broken anyway.” 😂
🏗️ Honestly though…
It’s going well. This build… THIS build… feels right.
This is the one. This is the clean one.
This is the ‘we’re not turning back’ build.
Once the major bones are in place… I can finally get back to tweaking the stuff I actually understand… not living in file dependency hell because I wanted a universal background loader or a reusable button class.
⚡️ Lore drop for the real ones…
At the QuickServe Pavilion…
Cosmic Phil carefully times his sets — grooving on that keytar — dropping flawless math snacks.
But in…
INFINITY MODE…
Phil throws on the turntables… spins all night long… math problems… until sunrise.
No timer. Just vibes.
Same gameplay. Longer tracks. Infinite mode.
🛠️ Dev plan for tomorrow:
- Don’t update version notes until QS mode and Infinity mode are up…
- Upload the rest of Phil’s PNGs.
- Move clock and score up a bit in the stage window.
- Decide if the glow lines on stage stay… or get cut.
- Actually wire up game modes (addition, subtraction, etc).
- Get sounds and music back in.
- Add a Reset Game button up top, next to score/timer.
- Keep testing mobile adjustments whenever possible.
- Basically… just keep swimming. 🐠
🚀 Tomorrow awaits.
First… sleep.
Because yet again… I stayed up late… fighting… a button.
🍧🚛🎸🌀
– Jeremy @ SnowCone MathFest
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