The streak is never shown
It stays off every meter until the day is about to break. Then the pet says so. The number buys nothing; growth is the care count alone.
The three
The design is in what stays out.
It learns no fact about you
It keeps what you did, never who you are. The daily answer becomes one rolling digest that can tell only whether today differs from yesterday.
The window is not the door
It can grow on days 2, 4 and 8 when its care is good enough. Miss the day and it tells you; good care can still let it catch up.
The four forms
What it becomes changes what it does.
At day 8 the pet stops growing. Its form is folded from the care log rather than stored, so a saved game cannot disagree with it.
Steward
Kept clean. It tidies after itself.
Prospector
Kept playing. It stays restless, and pleased about it.
Clerk
Kept fed. It reads the day out in its own voice each morning.
Drifter
Nobody made a project of it. It asks more often. This is not a failure state.
The numbers
A record you can check.
Measured 2026-09-25 against this artifact.
| Self-tests, asserted both ways | 99/99 |
|---|---|
| Live checks against the running page | 17/17 |
| Pixel lattice, non-flat | 0.000% non-flat |
| Positive control, meant to fail | 23.783% FAIL (positive control) |
| The whole game, one file | 343,151 bytes |
| SHA-256 of that file | f2121b77715d740c… |
| Network calls in the game | 0 |
from node test/harness.js selftest, python3 test/live_check.py, python3 test/check_grid.py against musegotchi.html on the date above; re-measure before citing after any edit. 99/99: the front door, the closing line, feedback, animalese, the eight-room picker, and the four long-game forms.
The control is included on purpose. A checker that cannot fail is not evidence.
The sound
The room follows the pet.
12 effects, 8 rooms. Counted from the MP3 files at build time. Sound is off by default and never required. Leave the audio folder out and the game remains complete.
The room is chosen from the pet’s state, not the clock on your wall. Rooms found on disk: dawn, daylight, evening, firelight, kitchen, midnight, rain, snowfall. Its voice is generated from the same seed as its face and name.
Limits
Before you judge it.
- You cannot read the streak.It is deliberately edge-only, not a permanent meter.
- A screenshot remains possible.The number is unshowable, not un-screenshottable; it is designed to be worthless to perform with.
- The save is legible JSON.It sits in the browser’s Application storage. The game does not pretend otherwise.
- An unreadable save means a fresh egg.Lost days are named without printing counts the game cannot know or accusing the caretaker.