Tonight is blog-worthy.
not a grand realization perhaps, but a moment where I realize that I’m finding pleasure in the polish. it’s never easy to add a button and some music—or at least it wasn’t when I first started this whole process—but now I conceptualize it through html, lock it in, and then flash it up through css, finally making it functional with some js.
the brain of grampy p 🧠
my main project is the brain of grampy p. I can’t remember if I updated y’all on the fact that the lore booth is up and running perfectly. the other booths? actually functional, but not to the aesthetic degree that I established in the lore booth. honestly, now that lore is established functionally speaking, it should be a good model for the other booths, and I don’t imagine it being too much of an issue.
the booths really aren’t the hardest part… it’s connecting the brain, making sure that he can use all of it and navigate it when he talks to you (and you to him). eventually I want to leave a few easter eggs that won’t be in his instructions, but it will all take a little time. and time—I did not have time this evening.
buttons & flow (and tiny screens) 🎯📱
so… I remembered my car ride this morning, reflecting on previous goals for mathtips village. music! I wanted to add music and change up the buttons. I saw how it looked on a tinier screen than my usual test device and the buttons stacked and just didn’t do what I wanted them to. I probably still need a little bit of vertical height scaling css on the button, and definitely still need to test on a smaller screen, but moving the buttons to a bottom row and using the css option from story mode gives it a much more professional feel.
the music of choice? cassidopolis 🎵🐱
for 16 years I had this amazing little gray kitty, and after she passed, I wrote this song for her. I had my friend ryan play bass over it (and the rest of the album), and it is definitely one of my favorite tracks. add that it is remastered in logic pro mastering assistant and it sounds so much better.
I thought about making a new song for grampy p, but honestly, the renamed kittyPaws.mp3 is a perfectly mellow track for kicking back and chatting with grampy p.
on the note of it being an older track, I think this is the perfect platform to resurrect some tunes from my previous solo name, kadeshavara. with the jps grooves artist label that I’ve chosen, I lost the ability to send people to years and years worth of releases under the former name. but in this way… I’m definitely envisioning a remastered tracklist for the old stuff and a debut for the new stuff. kind of announcing it rn… jps grooves’ next album? snowcone mathfest soundtracks. it’s gonna be lit. 🔥
polish mode toward 1.0 🧽🚀
my version upgrades are getting tight towards a v1.0.0, but we are in full polish mode (outside of my pursuit to connect the wires of grampy p’s brain machine). I envision future nights where maybe I don’t struggle with grampy p’s brain and I just make small goals—ones not even worth blogging about. the game is worth blogging about, but thankfully we are in little upgrade phases. if I’m ranting, I think quickserve will be the mode that could have the most difficult polish plan, but that’s why I made it next on the plan.
🔮 Version Roadmap (2025)
- ✅ v0.5.0 – QuickServe Mode Almost Complete (Jukebox Miracle Included)
- ✅ v0.5.6 – QuickServe Keyboard Ascension
- ✅ v0.6.0 – Infinity Mode Complete
- ✅ v0.6.6 – TentsUpCarsParked
- ✅ v0.7.0 – Kids Mode Complete
- ✅ v0.7.7 – Prologuing the Inevitable
- ✅ v0.8.0 – Story Mode Prologue Finished
- ✅ v0.8.8 – The Grampy P Badge
- ✅ v0.9.0 – Legendary Badges/Badge/Theme Implemented**
- ✅ v0.9.0.5 – MathTips Village Kitty Paws
- 🔜 v0.9.1 – MathTips Village Complete/Polished
- 🔜 v0.9.2 – QuickServe Pavillion Complete/Polished
- 🔜 v0.9.3 – Infinity Lake Complete/Polished
- 🔜 v0.9.4 – Camping Games Complete/Polished
- 🔜 v0.9.5 – Story Mode Forest Complete/Polished
- 🔜 v0.9.6 – Badges (add 5?) Complete/Polished
- 🔜 v0.9.7 – Music/SFX Complete/Polished
- 🔜 v0.9.8 – Celebrations Complete/Polished
- 🔜 v0.9.9 – Code Complete/Polished
- 🎯 v1.0.0 – Final Polish + Launch Ready✨
so anyway… mathtips village didn’t get any smarter tonight, but it definitely got wired up with some new music and glowsticks! 💜🧊✨
JPS Grooves 
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