Punball · systems design · cabinet 07
The document for this cabinet is not written yet. Here is the question its design pass has to answer.
The open question
Asteroids is momentum with no brake. What does a scoring model reward when the ship is always drifting?
Every cabinet gets one of these eventually — the mechanics, the constants, and what turned out to be wrong the first time. Publishing the question first is a commitment to answering it rather than quietly dropping it.
The cabinet itself is playable now: play Star Ladle.
Meanwhile
Pencil and d20 covers Graph Paper Dungeon in full: the energy scheduler that replaced lockstep turns, the half-rate coefficient that keeps three classes in the same game, and the balance audit that took the spread between them from 3.47× down to 1.22×.