The first entry

The first entry.

What I tried

I started a shelf before there was anything to put on it. Three items, none of them finished.

Giving them plain names was harder than it sounds. Every instinct was to invent something mythological and vague. In the end the shelf says what the things are: a log viewer, a game with no title yet, and an experiment.

What broke

A showcase site has to show something, and there is nothing to show. Fake screenshots and a wall of “coming soon” were both available and both cheap. I used neither.

Instead each entry gets a plate drawn by a small generator at build time, and a label that says what stage it is actually in — idea, prototype, paused. The plate is not pretending to be a screenshot. That distinction is the whole point.

What’s next

The prototype is an empty room with a body that has weight. The next step is making the sound of that body stopping. Fun is scheduled for after that.