Public change record
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The games shelf now uses original miniature game-board illustrations for all eight listed games. Artwork stays inside its card so titles and descriptions remain readable. The MakeJoy Labs mark on Presidential Portraits opens the main site, while the game title and Home tab return to the game. Sudoku is temporarily off the games shelf but remains available by direct link.
Explore portraits and sourced facts for all 45 U.S. presidents, then play four history games with Easy, Medium, and Harder choices. Games have hints, no points, and natural stopping places. Play works offline and keeps only the current games in this browser.
WordSprout now has a sunny sky, bold color tiles, and a flower for every word you grow this sitting. Letters turn over one at a time, the board fits landscape phones and small screens, and the how-to-play guide opens at the top with a picture of each color. Play is the same: six tries, an optional clue and free letter, the word and its meaning at the end of every round, no streaks or scores, and nothing leaves the device.
Draw lines for falling rain to play, explore three starting scenes, and remix nine built-in songs. Plink works offline and saves one drawing in this browser. It has no account, ads, purchases, score, chat, or network requests.
Stations have segmented solar panels and docking collars, relay antennas have braced masts and shaped dishes, crystal clusters have prism tips, and lighthouses have framed lantern rooms and stone foundations. Quieter materials make these forms easier to read. Flight courses, collision shapes, controls, rewards, pilot progress and existing highlights remain compatible.
Decorative planets, moons and rings now stay clear of the whole flight corridor, including bends and loops. This removes the planet obstruction near the end of Light Doors and improves scenery placement on other affected routes. Playable courses, collisions, rewards and pilot progress are unchanged.
Lunar ground and haze have a cooler mineral palette. Rocks have continuous lighting and geological surface detail, crystal clusters have quartz-shaped tips, and reflected light follows each world. A quieter guide path reveals more of the terrain while rings and route lights remain clear. Flight routes, collision shapes, controls, rewards and local pilot progress are preserved.
A named next ring and finish route, clearer Flight Style feedback, and labeled Boost, Roll, Blaster and Rocket controls help pilots find their next action. The controls show when they are ready and work with keyboard holds or short button activations. Practice shows only its two tools, and Guided flight keeps advice together. Existing routes, rewards, voice and local highlights remain available.
More detailed planets, terrain and ships join assisted rolls, Flight Style combos and a roomy practice circuit. Watch the best moment after landing, keep up to three local highlights, and deliberately download game-only video where the browser supports it. Style points stay separate from campaign rewards. All 21 routes, pilot backups, computer fullscreen and the approved Briggs welcome remain available. No accounts or uploads are added.
Fixed the public-site policy conflict that prevented the approved welcome from playing. The first Play click each visit now starts Briggs when sound is on, with Hear again, visible playback feedback and a clear retry action. Mute stays respected, and takeoff or leaving the game stops the welcome. No new dialogue was generated.
Explore unique scenery across all 21 routes from a cleaner galaxy map. Optional Guided flight offers one action at a time, detailed route help, and an immediate Off switch. A persistent aiming mark follows the guns and shows target lock and rocket recharge. The approved Captain Briggs welcome is available with its exact caption; new matching spoken dialogue is not included. Local saves, earned rewards, and computer full-screen play continue to work offline.
Use Full screen on the galaxy map or pause menu for an immersive computer view; Escape returns to the browser and pauses the flight. New cratered moons, ocean worlds, shaded gas giants and rings join smoother terrain and clearer lighting. Replaying the rescue route now releases its beacon graphics correctly. The 21-route campaign, earned rewards and local pilot saves continue to work offline.
Promoted the reviewed geography adventure to the released games shelf with finite map, clue, matching, sorting, and world activities; a pausable 60-second Time Rush; correct, skipped, and revisit summaries; an optional local printable classroom report; and 50 static Cedar AI-voice recordings. It has no streak, daily reward, points, unlocks, child profile, child-data or gameplay-telemetry transmission, ads, accounts, purchases, chat, or tracking.
A word-guessing game with the habit-forming parts left out: play as many as you like, no streak or score carries over, and there is no way to lose — a clue arrives before you run out of guesses, and every round ends with the word and what it means. Three word sizes let a young reader and a grown-up share one device. The game works without internet and remembers recently shown words on this device only to reduce repeats.
Rebuilt the released-games front page with the bright, compact energy of a late-2000s web arcade while keeping modern HTML, honest release labels, no Flash, no ads, and no tracking. Search plus Action, Puzzle, Tabletop, One player, and Together filters keep the shelf quick as it grows; education, parent, and creative tools now point to the separate MakeJoy Apps shelf.
Moved the tool rail across the top on landscape tablets so the canvas stays wide while Layers remains visible, replaced the unclear guide close icon with a plain Hide help control, and explained that the eraser affects the active layer while lower layers may show through.
The familiar BrightClass address now opens the maintained teacher preview with or without a final slash, the front page begins with four large plain-language choices, known retired links reach their current pages, BrightClass includes a way back to all activities, and report confirmations can display the report number returned by The Desk.
Briggs’ Flight Lab now begins with a protected indoor Mini Whoop course inside a grounded maker workshop, then points toward FPV Academy and Briggs’ Galaxy. The opening, shared Next Flight Plan, workshop depth cues, cockpit and chase views, Pilot Card, changing booth, garage, optional recorded Captain voice, and touch, tilt, keyboard, and controller paths are included. Returning to the menu now fully closes the continuous flight audio so no engine hum remains behind the Maker Lab screen.
Added speed-responsive chase exhaust, a clearer near-to-far flight corridor, a reserved gate opening, hollow edge diamonds for gates beside, above, below, or behind the ship, and friendly predicted rock guidance with striped warning brackets and a separate escape arrow. Keyboard throttle and camera controls, visible focus, reduced motion, high contrast, and polite live guidance are stronger while routes, privacy, local Pilot Cards, and non-punitive play remain unchanged.
The standard grown-up report link now hides throughout active flight on computers as well as phones, then returns on the menu and pause screen. This keeps the cockpit controls unobstructed without removing the feedback path.
Rebuilt the flight HUD around one current instruction and one central gate, moved safe training targets out of the default route, made defense controls contextual, removed duplicate telemetry and status panels, integrated boost charge into the Boost control, introduced dedicated tablet and phone layouts, and added a safe portrait pause that asks the pilot to turn sideways while Captain Briggs holds the controls. Privacy, local Pilot Cards, open routes, and friendly non-gory training remain unchanged.
Added a purpose-built child-friendly nebula backdrop, parallax atmosphere, luminous flight corridor, layered planets, richer asteroids and scouts, brighter gates, upgraded projectiles and spark bursts, dimensional two-seat ships, a rebuilt cockpit, a unified glass HUD, smaller phone controls, and polished pilot, garage, and showcase-card art. Gameplay rules, privacy, open routes, and friendly non-gory training remain unchanged.
Added rechargeable blasters, three reloading lock-on rockets, destructible multi-hit asteroids, colorful alien scout bots, homing projectiles, health bars, target brackets, spark-burst effects, combat stars, and a mobile-safe weapons HUD. Alien scouts harmlessly warp home when tagged; there is no gore, fear, punishment, or required combat.
Added moving space dust, route pylons, safe asteroid scenery, and a rebuilt glass HUD for clearer speed and depth. Added a local-only changing booth, starship garage, printable showcase Pilot Card, cosmetic five-rank Flight Path, ship servicing, and customization that safely migrates existing cards without locking any adventure.
Collapsed the report control to a small bug icon on mobile and hid it during active flight, while restoring it whenever the game is paused. Added Captain Briggs’ flight guide with simple turn, climb, glide, center, steady, and boost directions for the next gate.
Released a two-seat space-flight game with ten routes available from the start, cockpit and chase views, touch sticks, optional phone tilt, keyboard controls, local Pilot Cards, approved Captain Briggs audio, and a grown-up playtest guide. There are no ads, accounts, purchases, chat, or gameplay tracking.
Added a player-paced map mode that names each of all 50 states exactly once in a shuffled session. Players choose the state on the map, retry without a penalty, and decide when to move to the next state; there is no timer or score in this mode.
Added Sudoku entry undo and accurate Solitaire undo availability, strengthened complete-ending playtests for Memory and both Go Fish styles, enlarged Rules and spatial slice controls, and added a file-only audit covering all 27 games for keyboard starts, live status, accessible names, 44-pixel controls, phone-to-desktop layouts, declared chance, and forbidden browser capabilities.
Added a reusable offline shell for game tabs, live status, active-game undo, rules, guide state, board view, print, and keyboard tab navigation. A runtime contract audit verifies all 27 panels, while shared undo delegates to each game's existing history and never changes its rules.
Added an adult-initiated print-and-play view that sends only the active game's current rendered position and visible rules to the browser print dialog. Printing leaves every game state unchanged and creates no upload, saved game, server-side file, or share link.
Added optional First open and Line aware Tic-tac-toe computer behaviors while keeping local two-player as default. Each behavior explains its exact deterministic priorities, replies immediately on-device, groups the local move and reply as one backward/forward history turn, and passed exhaustive legal-choice tests across 294,778 reachable unfinished boards.
Added Previous turn and Next turn history to regular Checkers and Position Builder Explore. Whole-turn states, chained captures, natural endings, and side to move restore exactly; making a new turn after stepping backward clears the old future branch, while the immutable built source remains unchanged.
Added a local Checkers Position Builder with five named edit tools, playable-square enforcement, twelve-piece limits, side-to-move choice, edit undo, validation, a two-jump sample, and Explore mode using forced captures, chains, crowning, natural endings, and whole-turn undo while the built source remains immutable.
Added global Standard, Large pieces, and High contrast board views. The settings are local to the open page, never alter game state or rules, preserve keyboard paths and non-color labels, and passed phone and desktop visual checks plus 40 complete browser scenarios.
Added five finite Spatial Rules Laboratory stations for canonical coordinates, four rotations, three slice planes, view-invariant legal moves, and immutable Before/Route/After replays with named source, destination, direction, resulting check, keyboard controls, and complete browser playtests.
Added five fixed Timeline Chess puzzles over reduced 4×4×4 Space Chess with immutable A/B history, non-interacting saved boards, full-cube self-check filtering, branch-local promotion, slice-invariant legality, active-state check narration, exhaustive mate proof, undo, keyboard controls, and complete browser playtests.
Added five fixed Timeline Checkers puzzles with named A/B states, marked earlier forks, complete multi-jump branch turns, global forced captures, delayed crowning, visible coordinates, immutable original history, branch undo, keyboard controls, and browser playtests proving every branch and undo.
Added five fixed 4×4×4 Space Chess puzzles with kings, rooks, bishops, and pawns; stable L/R/C coordinates; interchangeable slice views; full-cube attack detection and self-check filtering; narrated check sources and directions; rook/bishop promotion; checkmate and stalemate proof; undo; keyboard controls; and complete browser playtests.
Added five fixed 4×4×4 Cube Checkers puzzles with stable L/R/C coordinates, interchangeable layer, row, and column slices, global forced captures, 12 face-diagonal king directions, chained jumps, whole-turn undo, keyboard controls, and complete browser playtests for every puzzle.
Added five cooperative Layered Checkers puzzles across three 8×8 boards with labelled paired portals, global forced captures, cross-layer jump chains, portal crowning, isolated layer views, whole-turn undo, keyboard controls, and complete browser playtests for every puzzle.
Added three fixed offline 8×8 Minesweeper boards with guaranteed-safe first reveals, Reveal and Flag modes, blank-area opening, calm no-timer endings, reset, undo, keyboard controls, and complete playtests for every board.
Added three fixed offline Code Breaker puzzles with named shapes plus colors, duplicate-aware exact and elsewhere clues, calm eight-guess endings, reset, undo, keyboard controls, and complete win and reveal playtests.
Added offline Tower of Hanoi free play with 3–5 disks, complete legal-size enforcement, clear tower narration, reset, undo, keyboard controls, and full playtests at every size without timers, grades, or target move counts.
Added offline Peg Solitaire with English and European cross boards, complete orthogonal jump rules, legal-source and destination markers, natural no-move endings, move-back review, keyboard controls, and a full 31-jump one-peg playtest.
Added six guaranteed-solvable offline Sliding Tiles puzzles across 3×3 and 4×4 boards, with numbered and image-free symbol views, reset, undo, keyboard controls, and complete-puzzle playtests for every board.
Added three curated offline 8×8 Word Search puzzles with horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and reverse selection, found-word highlighting, reset, undo, keyboard controls, complete-puzzle playtests, and no child-entered text.
Added three fixed offline solo domino-chain puzzles with matching on either end, automatic orientation, mismatch feedback, reset, undo, keyboard controls, and complete playtests for every puzzle.
Added offline local two-player Backgammon with visible dice history, bar priority, hits, blocks, doubles, maximum-dice-use and higher-die rules, bearing off, undo, keyboard controls, and a 46-roll complete-match playtest.
Added offline local two-player Chess with check-safe legal moves, checkmate, stalemate, castling, en passant, four-piece promotion, the fifty-move draw, whole-move undo, keyboard controls, and short and 153-ply complete-match playtests.
Added three offline solo 6×6 fleet deduction puzzles with fixed clues, exact row and column totals, safe water filling, answer checking, undo, keyboard controls, and complete-puzzle playtests.
Added offline two-player Dots and Boxes with 2×2, 3×3, and 4×4 boards, box ownership, extra turns after closing a box, alternating starters, undo, keyboard controls, and a complete-match playtest.
Added offline two-player Nine Men’s Morris with placement, movement, flying, protected-mill removal, natural endings, whole-turn undo, keyboard controls, and a complete-match playtest.
Added offline two-player Kalah-style Mancala with narrated stone counts, extra turns, opposite-pit captures, end sweeping, undo, keyboard controls, and a complete-match playtest.
Added offline two-player Reversi with legal-move markers, eight-direction flipping, automatic passes, final disk counting, undo, keyboard controls, and a complete-match playtest.
Added offline two-player Connect Four with complete line detection, alternating starts, full-column handling, undo, keyboard controls, and a focused parent playtest prompt.
Added offline two-player Tic-tac-toe with alternating starts, undo, complete win and draw handling, keyboard controls, and a dedicated parent playtest prompt.
Added offline pass-and-play Checkers with required captures, chained jumps, kings, whole-turn undo, keyboard controls, and a documented path from basic board games to spatial variants.
Added an optional read-only family connection for availability, gentle guidance, sound, motion, and break reminders. Unconnected games make no request; connected games send no gameplay, progress, creations, or identity.
Expanded Starlight Crew to 25 freely selectable levels across five chapters, with visible difficulty labels, local completion marks, and balance checks.
Rebuilt DrawSprout with five specific guided projects, seven drawing tools, local saving, undo and redo, and collapsible navigation.
Go Fish now displays an explicit ask button for every rank in the player’s hand, with score, difficulty, and a turn log.
Corrected two invalid locked clues, added a regression check for every puzzle, and added optional completed-number highlighting and themes.
The build now reserves the public root for founder-signed Paint, Madison Row, and Sudoku releases while prototypes live under /demo/.