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Systems & trust

Martoria: The First Oath

Turn contradictory testimony into a system players can inspect, compare, and act on without collapsing uncertainty.

Primary audience
Players learning a dense world through dialogue, evidence, choices, combat, and consequence.
My role
Narrative systems · Information design · Engineering · QA
Working stack
Godot 4.7.1 · GDScript · HTML5 export
Status
Playable opening slice · Active development

01 / Shipped artifact

Summary

A playable winter village, 30 speaking NPCs, evidence records, quests, economy, combat, and persistent state.

Quantified snapshot
349
Automated checks
30
Speaking NPCs
13
Houses
1
Browser-playable build
File & data footprint
  • 349 automated checks
  • 30 speaking NPCs
  • 13 houses
  • Browser-playable build

02 / Content and UX decisions

Decisions

DDR-001 · Content decision

Preserve source, conflict, and confidence for every testimony instead of presenting one authoritative truth.

DDR-002 · Experience decision

Reveal system depth through one bounded opening region before expanding the world.

03 / Delivery evidence

Delivery evidence

  1. 01

    Dialogue and evidence structures for conflicting accounts.

  2. 02

    Player-facing labels for quests, inventory, economy, and combat.

  3. 03

    A browser-playable build with automated QA.

04 / Role signals

Role fit

  • Complex-system explanation
  • Structured content and state logic
  • Code comprehension and testing
  • Clear uncertainty language
Validation

349 automated checks across rules, saves, UI, interactions, economy, quests, geometry, and combat.

Boundary

The current release is one substantial opening region, not the finished game.

05 / Live project change feed

Live changes

Sync sourcePublic portfolio integrationPublished portfolio integration

13 changes captured from portfolio pushes

  1. Hover previews that open each project's site; big live-site button on Tickmark

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  2. Use the martinzhang.vercel.app and tickmark-martinzhang.vercel.app addresses

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  3. Make Vercel the canonical portfolio host

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  4. Resolve Martoria split assets from demo base

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  5. Fix Martoria demo asset paths on Vercel

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  6. Add restrained scroll-focus motion

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  7. Keep Martoria demo browser-first

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  8. Update Hopli and Martoria live demos

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  9. Fix anchored section alignment

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  10. Fix work card reflow and default language

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  11. Add bilingual portfolio and refine mobile layouts

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  12. Refine homepage and broaden creative direction

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  13. Add Martoria case study and downloadable build

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Private source; deployment-safe metadata only.

06 / Documentation record history

Record history

Documentation version, not product release.

Documentation version
v1.2.0
Last updated
  1. v1.2.0

    Connected a live GitHub change feed with source attribution, commit links, and a resilient published-history fallback.

  2. v1.1.0

    Added world-system and QA metrics, documentation-version metadata, and a public change history.

  3. v1.0.0

    Published the initial public record with purpose, decisions, delivery evidence, validation, and boundaries.