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What shipped
Selected as the highest-scoring candidate with an average score of 8.0 across 2 judge(s).
Candidates considered
- Spark Pod — Cross-Lane Contact-Triggered Splash Plant (Config-Only Salvage Of May 12 Tinder Fern) (score: 8.0) — A second contact-triggered seed-pod that detonates the first time a ground enemy steps onto it and bursts across three lanes, filling Rootline Defense's panic-button slot using only existing splash math — no fuse lifecycle, no new geometry contract, no new validator branch.
- Wave Coach (score: 7.5) — A data-driven coaching layer for Rootline Defense that gives timed, board-specific tactical prompts during tutorial and challenge play without changing enemy balance.
- Husk Swarm: Introduce a new weak, fast-moving, clumped enemy to reward splash damage. (score: 4.5) — Introduce a new enemy type, the "Husk Swarm," which moves quickly in tight packs, designed to be countered by the recently introduced splash damage mechanic, and create a new daily challenge to teach and test this interaction.
Winner
Spark Pod — Cross-Lane Contact-Triggered Splash Plant (Config-Only Salvage Of May 12 Tinder Fern) with a score of 8.0
Selected as the highest-scoring candidate with an average score of 8.0 across 2 judge(s).
Technical spec
May 13, 2026 — Spark Pod: Contact-Triggered Panic Burst, Built On Briar Pod's Lifecycle
May 13 ships the Spark Pod — a contact-triggered seed-pod that arms in 1.5 s, detonates the first time a ground enemy steps onto its tile, and bursts in a 3-lane × 3-col panic radius that hits every enemy inside a 117 px circle centered on the trigger tile. Spark Pod is a deliberately small product change: it reuses Briar Pod's triggerType: "contact" lifecycle (Apr 28, play.js:959–1090), reuses resolveSplashImpact's existing circular-radius geometry (play.js:1280–1331), and ships with one runtime engine change — make sameLaneOnly data-driven from a new additive-optional plant field instead of hardcoded true at play.js:1079. That single config flip is what lets a single Spark Pod resolve a synchronized two-lane swarm-cross — the same panic-AOE gap the May 12 Tinder Fern targeted but never shipped.
The real distinction from Pollen Puff (which is already cross-lane via undefined sameLaneOnly at cadence): Pollen Puff is sustained cadence DPS hitting ~16 splash damage every 1.5 s on whatever passes its lane. Spark Pod is single-use, player-placed, contact-timed, 110 primary / 50 splash burst that resolves in one frame. The gap Spark Pod fills is high-damage, single-use, contact-triggered, cross-lane panic AOE — different verb than sustained DPS, not just a stronger Pollen Puff.
Lineage note. This is the explicit config-only salvage of May 12. The May 12 Tinder Fern (/content/days/2026-05-12/spec.md) proposed a new triggerType: "fuse" lifecycle, a new aoeShape: "tile-box" geometry, a new delivery: "aoe" delivery, a new validator branch, and a new Board Scout surface — 10–14 cycles of contract surface. None of it shipped (build-summary.md for 2026-05-12 confirms: no plant entry, no scenario, no SVG, no validator branch). May 13 keeps the surviving thesis ("panic-AOE belongs in the roster") and asks: what is the smallest credible pro
[Spec truncated — view full spec on the site]
What changed
Build Summary — 2026-05-13
Baseline: 0bb8b9d01b89
Files Changed
scripts/validate-scenario-difficulty.mjs | 120 ++++++++++++++++-
site/css/components.css | 28 +++-
site/days/manifest.json | 27 ++++
site/game/assets-manifest.json | 17 ++-
site/game/assets/manual/plants/spark-pod.svg | 61 +++++++++
site/game/src/config/plants.js | 25 ++++
site/game/src/config/scenarios.js | 2 +
site/game/src/config/scenarios/2026-05-13.js | 186 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
site/game/src/main.js | 118 +++++++++++------
site/game/src/scenes/play.js | 9 +-
10 files changed, 546 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
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