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I tagged a ProjectSpire snapshot for 2026-05-11, but this one feels different because I barely did any of the implementation myself.
My Codex usage is nearly gone, so Claude carried most of the work while I was busy elsewhere: parsers for relics, potions, events, and monsters; shared parser utilities; tests; and a few devlogs.
I added a ProjectSpire design note in 399f74d that pushes the card pipeline toward a two-pass model: keep the parser output source-faithful, then resolve localization and rendered text separately for the app.
I created that work with GPT-5.5 in plan mode, and it asked a few genuinely useful clarification questions before I let it draft anything substantial, which made the whole process feel a lot more controlled than a blind codegen pass. I also pushed back on several of its first suggestions and made a lot of the consequential decisions myself, especially around keeping canonical variable names intact and separating raw data from resolved display data. That feels like a strong pattern for future ProjectSpire work: use the AI models to widen the search space, but keep the architecture decisions and edits grounded in my own judgment.
I’ve been working on ProjectSpire’s iOS app (codename: Neow’s Cafe) in NicholasClooney/ProjectSpire as a 1:1 Slay the Spire 2 card library, and the useful part is not just the filtering UI and refactor cleanup, but the way I’m trying to work with AI.
I get better results when I lay down the foundations myself first, especially around quality, guard rails, and how the data is modeled, and then let AI work inside that framework instead of asking it to define the framework for me. It also helps a lot when I have AI propose higher-level API or contract changes before it starts making edits.
I’ve moved the SwiftUI card view forward by adding a real Card model, so even though the screen does not look dramatically different yet, the app is much closer to rendering cards from extracted data instead of hardcoded values. There is even a small visual regression in the golden text compared with the previous screenshot, but the important change is underneath: I can now refine the card parser and JSON output models, bring those records and required images directly into the app, and aim to emulate any card regardless of rarity, type, or data shape. The relevant work is in the ProjectSpire compare for the card view changes and the new card model.
I’m recreating the Slay the Spire 2 card view in SwiftUI with assets extracted from the game, and I’m very happy with how close the first pass feels. The current work is captured in ProjectSpire snapshot/2026-04-28, especially CardView.swift; most of it is still hardcoded, but the visual foundation is there. Next I want to generalize it so the view can take a card data object and dynamically reload the text, colors, and assets, which might eventually turn into a Slay the Spire wiki app for the phone.
I’ve been working since last night and today with agents to document how Slay the Spire 2 works, prototype a Spire API and a REST API on top of it, and shape a WIP card parser that turns C# into JSON structures. That work is captured in ProjectSpire snapshot/2026-04-19, which gives me a concrete snapshot of the game model and tooling so far.
I’ve set up ProjectSpire Lab so I can run a script that pulls a decompiled copy of Slay the Spire 2 for local experimentation; the game code itself stays out of Git because I do not have a license to commit it. The setup lives in NicholasClooney/ProjectSpire. It gives me a clean foundation to build mod tooling from.
This grows out of Cloudflare Build Notifications via Email Routing and Email Worker, but I’m now moving the Email Worker out of the Cloudflare dashboard editor and into Git in NicholasClooney/cloudflare-email-to-webhook-worker. The goal is to keep the worker version controlled, review changes before deploys, test locally, and configure it with Wrangler instead of only editing it in the Cloudflare web UI. Right now it is still mostly Wrangler init plus the example email worker, but that is a solid foundation to build from.