Mine Quest

Current State

Focus

Mine Quest — CrazyGames Basic Launch Baseline

Setup

Incomplete (primary_reference, reference_thesis)

Primary Reference

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Reference Thesis

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Reference Alignment

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Open Questions

Does the existing Mine Quest web baseline show sufficient audience fit on CrazyGames to justify further investment? · Does the black interval occur before the game iframe document paints, or after the page begins executing but before the overlay becomes visible? · Should a fresh player see a shortened/full-screen-skippable cutscene, or should narrative be deferred until after first agency? · Should fresh saves bypass Home only, or bypass both Home and the cutscene? · Can Poki expose resource/load timing outside game-authored measure events for users who leave before the SDK initializes?

Next Actions

Define the smallest instrumented first-run experiment after deciding whether fresh players should enter the cutscene with a full-screen skip or enter the first mine directly. Add shared Poki measure support and stable checkpoints for shell ready, Home visible/interact, cutscene start/skip/complete, first-mine start, and first-block destroyed.

Latest Findings

Latest Poki Player Fit for mine-quest-poki-minsizerel002.zip: average session 101.2s, p90 172.8s, median 50.0s, under-3m sessions 90.0%, Poki start rate 49.2%. · The packaged page contains a visible HTML loading overlay before the runtime scripts and a 22.7 MB game.data download. If Poki recordings remain black before that overlay appears, the delay is upstream of Lua and likely before the game document paints or while the host/iframe/resource request is being established; it is not the in-game loading screen. · The cutscene Skip label starts hidden. A tap anywhere on the cutscene only reveals the label; the player must then tap the small lower-left label before it fades. Repeated taps elsewhere therefore do not skip, matching the observed exits. · GameMain always constructs Home first with a 3000 ms scene load transition. A fresh player must then tap Home to enter the initial cutscene, which later routes to the first mine. Returning players also route through Home. · The current Poki lifecycle calls gameLoadingFinished when Home first becomes visible and calls gameplayStart when a gameplay scene becomes active after a trusted interaction. It does not measure a first block break, cutscene exposure/skip, Home exposure/play, or detailed tutorial progress. · The failed comparison rejects dialogue friction as the tested mechanism, but cannot determine where players were lost before gameplay or whether a direct first-run route would help. · Keep the game in Decision Pending. The next decision should compare a small set of distinct product choices rather than treating them as one implementation: make the cutscene skippable by any deliberate tap or remove it for first-time players; bypass Home for fresh saves while preserving it for returning players; and investigate whether the pre-document black interval is a Poki capture/hosting issue or payload delivery issue. Instrument the funnel before or alongside any new test so aggregate session statistics are no longer the only evidence.

Updated

2026-10-16T16:11:06.685097Z