aetherbound-guild/docs/README.md

Design Authority Map

Use the interactive site in ../prototype/site/ as the owner-facing entry point. The Markdown files below are the exact implementation authority after the direction is approved.

Product And Rules

• product/GAME_PRODUCT_CONTRACT.md: audience, fantasy, play loop, duration, modes, onboarding, completion
• product/SYSTEMS_AND_BATTLE.md: deterministic battle, Party-line rules, Directives, damage, professions and failure
• product/ECONOMY_AND_BALANCE.md: progression, prices, pacing profiles, difficulty and solvency
• product/SAVE_AND_FAILURE_CONTRACT.md: atomic save, migration, corruption, rollback, offline and retry behavior

Complete Content

• content/CONTENT_INDEX.md: content namespaces, exact counts and cross-catalog authority
• content/RECRUIT_GENERATION.md: generated run-bound Recruit identity, offer and determinism rules
• content/PROFESSION_CATALOG.md: 12 base, 24 advanced and 6 hidden professions
• content/TRAIT_CATALOG.md: 36 mechanical benefit-and-cost traits
• content/ENEMY_CATALOG.md: 100 ordinary/elite enemies and 16 bosses
• content/EQUIPMENT_CATALOG.md: 320 items
• content/ARTIFACT_CATALOG.md: 60 run-wide Artifacts
• content/REGION_CATALOG.md: eight Regions, bosses, pressures and route roles

Presentation And Production

• presentation/SCREEN_AND_STATE_MAP.md: 50 player-facing pages and required states
• presentation/UI_AND_VISUAL_SYSTEM.md: landscape layout, interaction, accessibility and localization
• presentation/ART_ASSET_AND_ANIMATION_CATALOG.md: asset identities, rigs, animation and VFX production
• presentation/AUDIO_MUSIC_AND_VOICE_CATALOG.md: music, ambience, dialogue and SFX identities

Prototype, Research And Review

• prototype/INTERACTIVE_PROTOTYPE_SPEC.md: HTML behavior, responsive and evidence contract
• prototype/generation/README.md: four concept image calls and their provenance
• reference/REFERENCE_RUNTIME_CENSUS.md reference/TRANSFERABLE_STRUCTURE_LESSONS.md, and reference/USER_PLAY_VIDEO_STUDY_2026-08-11.md: evidence-labeled reference research, the current long-session study, and the originality boundary
• reviews/PRE_DEVELOPMENT_READINESS_AUDIT.md: verified completion and open human/runtime gates

Historical Agent TaskGraph records remain under .agent-taskgraph/; they are not the current product or prototype authority.