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You can run.","But even Carnies can’t hide in the cold of Crookwood."]]},{"id":"carny-s-rocket-witches-0b213f07","sequence":6,"title":"Carny's Rocket Witches","band":"The DogGones","createdAt":"2026-07-30T23:52:27.354Z","durationSeconds":172.36,"styles":["urban soul","trap pop","traditional country"],"source":{"platform":"Suno","model":"v5.5","account":"brettclements","planAtCreation":"Pro","url":"https://suno.com/song/0b213f07-f886-4f3e-b9c9-9151d0390d20","selectionNote":"Published by Brett Clements on the public TheDogGones Suno profile; public and complete at playlist intake on 31 July 2026."},"audio":{"src":"/media/doggones/carnys-rocket-witches.mp3","format":"mp3","codec":"mp3","sampleRateHz":48000,"channels":2,"bytes":3929448,"sha256":"d1233a073526f00075afcddaf13286fb603aafd6295b23ed6dc661c4600b2d31"},"art":{"src":"/art/carny-pngs/the-rocket-witch-d7e1628aca.webp","alt":"Brett Clements' authored Carny Island artwork: The Rocket Witch.","width":1800,"height":1800,"sourceTitle":"The Rocket Witch.png","sourceSha256":"d7e1628aca5cc85e68519f115f8259475158eb38cd4afa758aac7977c7ef9696","displaySha256":"1e53bbc3e6670dd59eebd5d81c292ba097d898b5dcc915a539b9a028aa8c6a66"},"lyrics":[["The Rocket Witches"],["I remember when","The sky above Crookwood was flecked with black sin","Red scars ripped from your past"],["The Rocket witches came out of the sun","Shrieking out of that boiling star","Screaming for revenge"],["Swooping down - one by one","Like a pack of angry crows","Hunched over their black brooms","Jets howling","Spitting flames of venom and hate"],["Slung with Assassin missiles","Angry red tips","Their wings tattooed with the skulls of hapless souls","And the rocket witches shrieked and cackled"],["They call it karma","We call it Carny","Carny Island","We call it juju","Bad bad juju","Your sins scratched in blood","This is Crookwood on Carny Island"],["And it is cold","I didn't know hell was"],["You got it comin'","Bad, bad, bad juju","Yeah you had it coming baby","Rows of gravestones bear witness to that","You think you can come and go","But","Baby","You belong","To us"],["Bad","Bad juju","Bad bad bad bad juju","The storm gathers","Lightning cracklin'","Thunder booms","No smiley faces here","Just death forever","That's not. 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That’s Just your tears","Just groans and frowns and grumbles"],["Grimaces in pain"],["Rocket witches shriek as they ride their jet-powered brooms","Crooked grins and toothless smiles","Silhouettes against the Harvest Moon in the blood red skies","They’ve come for your soul","And you scream","But nobody hears"],["Welcome to Carny Island","Bad","Bad juju","Harvests on the moon","No safe place in Crookwood"],["This is Carny Island","No smiley faces here","Bad","Bad juju","Ride with the Rockets Witches","Your soul is in their bag","And Uncle Shrift just laughed"]]},{"id":"i-m-a-ghost-guitar-take-006a8d9c","sequence":14,"title":"I'm A Ghost — Guitar Take","band":"The DogGones","createdAt":"2026-07-30T23:22:09.557Z","durationSeconds":176.8,"styles":["guitar only"],"source":{"platform":"Suno","model":"v5.5","account":"brettclements","planAtCreation":"Pro","url":"https://suno.com/song/006a8d9c-0bfd-4599-9de2-d49afa55c8e8","selectionNote":"Published by Brett Clements on the public TheDogGones Suno profile; public and complete at playlist intake on 31 July 2026."},"audio":{"src":"/media/doggones/im-a-ghost-alt-1.mp3","format":"mp3","codec":"mp3","sampleRateHz":48000,"channels":2,"bytes":4032072,"sha256":"9a638924a7907f322580c62e80098e68e11227ea59518dcba03bebc1ca061310"},"art":{"src":"/art/carny-pngs/souls-dab451c6db.webp","alt":"Brett Clements' authored Carny Island artwork: Souls.","width":1800,"height":1349,"sourceTitle":"Souls.png","sourceSha256":"dab451c6db7203e28377ff3c3f6f0123fcbe27de1f2c93cf0a3a1f65040ec7c6","displaySha256":"e372a55d2483060c342d1292d9489c38784e19d67c4b306240cfa9786a474f4a"},"lyrics":[["I’m A Ghost."],["I died an just another ordinary day"],["Got buried here in the cold of Crookwood.","Now I’m just a ghost.","A nobody ghost with nobody.","A wisp.","A shiver running down your spine.","A cold breath on the air.","A shadow.","All the days of my life reduced to the date of my birth and death","And a flower inscription from scriptures I never read - etched on cold marble."],["Is this the eternal end?","When does my last chapter end?","When the room of souls empty?","When the cosmic dust has settled?","When the four horsemen of the Apocalypse ride?","Then. Can somebody tell us what was it all for?","The wars.","The Gods we marched to battle for under the billowing pennants of symbols we didn’t understand.","Graveyards stretching to forever,"],["Haunted by billions of lost souls.","Blood soaking land nobody will ever own.","The fatted golden calves of religions - the saviours rewarding blind faith.","The dogma of gospels.","Choirs.","Blessings.","Miracles.","Demons.","Angels."],["The exorcism of fantasy turning in the windmills of your mind.","What did we all come here for? Hey?","A delusion of free will.","Freedom?","Retribution?","Reincarnation?","Now where do we go?","Now we have all stopped…","Lying"],["Cheating","Crying","Bleeding","Lovin’","What’s next?","I know what’s coming for you.","You too will die on just another ordinary day.","And the pages keep turning here in Crookwood.","I’m a ghost. A nobody ghost with no body."]]},{"id":"crookwood-s-eating-man-0941f292","sequence":15,"title":"Crookwood's Eating Man","band":"The DogGones","createdAt":"2026-08-01T05:45:00+10:00","durationSeconds":195.5335,"styles":["rock","country","trap"],"source":{"platform":"Suno","model":"v5.5","account":"brettclements","planAtCreation":"Pro","url":"https://suno.com/song/0941f292-d5ff-4fdf-bd40-c6068efee1fa","selectionNote":"Published by Brett Clements on the public TheDogGones Suno profile on 1 August 2026. The published title, styles and lyrics are preserved verbatim."},"audio":{"src":"/media/doggones/crookwoods-eating-man.mp3","format":"mp3","codec":"mp3","sampleRateHz":48000,"channels":2,"bytes":1565048,"sha256":"dbdd74c2b4f137d69e37970b5724b108eb55fce409450201b6890a870cae9cc2"},"art":{"src":"/art/carny-pngs/11-body-reveal-1-efeacdf3bb.webp","alt":"Brett Clements' authored Carny Island artwork: 11 body reveal 1.","width":1800,"height":1800,"sourceTitle":"11_body_reveal_1.png","sourceSha256":"efeacdf3bb0d6f092ce6b0f75d31678e58d7d68bf812feaed032a87ba44bed0e","displaySha256":"0db1f35693453fb45647accbbcc776f4e4e5f3c1896673353d1e24678c09b119"},"lyrics":[["He was buried alive","Undead - undead.","Now he's six foot down - in the cold and the dark","I'm not dead.","But they nailed me in the box!","Said their goodbyes.","And went to lunch."],["And he's hungry","I'm hungry.","He's starving","I;m starving!","So guess he'll just have to eat himself","I'll have to eat myself","Eat myself","Eat MYSELF"],["Don't forget to chew","I won't forget to chew","Give him a hand.","Let me put a foot in my mouth.","I taste like chicken","He tastest like Chicken","MMMMM good","Have a heart?"],["I'm The Eatin' Man","He's The Eatin Man","Crookwood's Eating Man","Eatin' Myself ALIVE","Eating himself ALIVE","I'm a three course meal","He's a dinner deal.","Do you want fries with that!","He's a banquet in a box","No need for takeaway","Cause baby I'm here to stay"],["Locked in a box with nothing to eat 'cept myself","Chewing to the bone - forever","Eat your heart out.","Bust a lung.","Bust a move.","Time for a dance groove."],["Yeah. I’m the Eating Man","Eating Myself Alive","Crookwood's Eating Man","Trapped in the dark just eating myself.","One mouthful at a time","The Eating Man of Crookwood.","Yeah. I’m the Eating Man of Crookwood.","Yeah. He's the Eating Man Of Crookwood"],["And when I’m done, I just regurgitate myself and start eating myself all over again.","And when he's done, he'll be spewin'","Yeah I’m The Eating Man.","Crookwood's Eating Man","Buried Alive","Eating Himself","Pass the salt."]]}]},"provenance":{"canonPolicy":"Brett Clements' latest direction is final. The Archived Bibles on Carny Island 1 are the primary creative authority. Dated production records supply build facts only. Conversations and AI notes are research, never automatic canon.","bibleArchive":"Carny Island 1 / Archived Bibles","bibleSources":[{"id":"core-high-concept","title":"Part I — High Concept","collection":"Notion Carny Bible Part 1","status":"primary creative source"},{"id":"core-creative-intent","title":"Part I — Creative Intent","collection":"Notion Carny Bible Part 1","status":"primary creative source"},{"id":"core-player-promise","title":"Part I — Player Promise","collection":"Notion Carny Bible Part 1","status":"primary creative source"},{"id":"core-design-pillars","title":"Part I — Design Pillars","collection":"Notion Carny Bible Part 1","status":"primary creative source"},{"id":"law-jungle","title":"Part IV — The Law of the Jungle","collection":"Archived Bible","status":"canon world law"},{"id":"dogs-shrift","title":"The Dogs & Shrift","collection":"Archived Bible","status":"canon system source"},{"id":"shrift-host","title":"Your Host VJ Uncle Shrift","collection":"Archived Bible","status":"canon character source with later voice ruling"},{"id":"mongril-legacy","title":"DOGMA and The ShapeShifter legacy files","collection":"Final Version Bible","status":"legacy character source"},{"id":"pox-news","title":"POX News World Updates","collection":"Final Version Bible","status":"canon narrative system source"},{"id":"chapel","title":"The Chapel","collection":"Final Version Bible","status":"canon Game 1 environment"},{"id":"morgue","title":"The Morgue and Crookwood Morgue","collection":"Final Version Bible","status":"canon environment source"},{"id":"pizzeria","title":"Mama Mia's PIZZA & Crematorium","collection":"Final Version Bible","status":"future-build environment source"},{"id":"gweedos","title":"Gweedo's — Premeditation Market and GWEEDOS V2","collection":"Final Version Bible","status":"implement-rated environment and economy source"},{"id":"necronomics","title":"Necronomics","collection":"Final Version Bible","status":"world and economy source"},{"id":"living-world","title":"Carny Island V2 Bible — Environmental Foundation","collection":"2026 Bible","status":"environment source with later production supersessions"}],"marketingSources":[{"id":"marketing-one-pager-2025-11-13","title":"Carny Island One Pager — November 13, 2025","collection":"Carny Island Archives / Marketing","status":"latest dated marketing blurb; reconciled with later Brett rulings","editorialNotes":["Current domain is carnyisland.com, replacing the historical carny.island reference.","Rocket-powered replaces the one-pager typo rocker-powered.","Apple Pencil replaces iPencil.","Current public language leads with the Halloween tabletop-and-phone format and Brett Clements' authorship.","The legacy sales-territory discrepancy remains outside the reconciled game pitch until Brett rules on one figure."]}],"authorRulings":[{"id":"game-format","date":"2026-07-26","subject":"What the game is","ruling":"Carny Island is a Halloween party game linked to a tabletop board, with mobile phones used as the playing pieces."},{"id":"chapel-jesus-performance","date":"2026-07-26","subject":"The Chapel","ruling":"Jesus speaks with an Australian accent. Bodies are timed to explode on the second joint or glass of wine."},{"id":"pizzeria-crematorium","date":"2026-07-26","subject":"The Pizzeria","ruling":"The Pizzeria doubles as a crematorium."},{"id":"genre-fusion","date":"2026-07-27","subject":"Game invention and cinema","ruling":"Brett Clements is a game inventor with a solid understanding of cinema. Carny Island is beyond point-and-shoot play: it explores concepts from traditional entertainment genres and fuses them."},{"id":"juju-name","date":"2026-08-08","subject":"JuJu terminology","ruling":"JooJoo is now JuJu. Use JuJu in current public-facing text while preserving legacy filenames and URLs where changing them would break provenance or links."},{"id":"shrift-voice-and-licensing","date":"2026-08-08","subject":"Uncle Shrift performance and Carny Island licensing","ruling":"Brett Clements supplies Uncle Shrift's base voice performance, which will be deliberately effected. AI will ultimately inhabit and play Uncle Shrift and The ShapeShifter within Brett's authored rules. Milt Barlow is the Executive in Charge of Carny Island Licensing."}],"storySources":[{"kind":"chatgpt-thread","title":"Carny Island Project Query","threadId":"6a368e59-93d4-83ec-951f-110431375045","access":"read"},{"kind":"chatgpt-thread","title":"Building a Game Pipeline","threadId":"6a41ede0-38b0-83ec-aada-f40e06f23303","access":"read"},{"kind":"chatgpt-thread","title":"Crookwood Yard Redesign","threadId":"6a485493-21e4-83ec-a441-993ae8dbbb4d","access":"read"},{"kind":"chatgpt-thread","title":"Sneaking Villain Design","threadId":"6a38519c-38b4-83ec-9a2e-51c99e8dcaf4","access":"read"},{"kind":"production-handover","title":"Codex Handover — Carny Room Zero","asOf":"2026-07-26T11:45:00+10:00"}],"historyGap":"Some former ChatGPT Business threads remain inaccessible. They are not required as creative authority because the Archived Bibles are now the site's primary reference library."},"story":{"oneLine":"An adult Halloween party game where up to 12 grave robbers use smartphones as playing pieces, portals and weapons on a physical cemetery board, building zombies and surviving Uncle Shrift before sunrise.","origin":"Brett Clements spent ten years drawing Carny Island while waiting for the machines to catch up with the world in his head.","centralVerb":"Die.","worldview":"Carny Island is designed from philosophy and performance outward: death is inevitable, spectacle is currency, and what happens before the end is the story.","authorship":"Brett invented the game, wrote the rules and created the art. OpenAI and Anthropic are collaborators in production: coding, testing, logistics and pressure-testing.","chapters":[{"number":"01","title":"The world existed before the code","body":"The drawings, Bibles, characters, rules and machinery came first. The code arrived later."},{"number":"02","title":"Death is not a reload screen","body":"The player has nine lives. Every death changes the pressure. The island does not ask whether you can avoid the end; it asks what story you create before it."},{"number":"03","title":"The cemetery is a machine","body":"Crookwood is timber, chicken wire, painted flats, engineered graves, live weather, moving shadows and a lethal pendulum. Scenery is never just scenery."},{"number":"04","title":"Build the studio by building objects","body":"One grave. One floor. One beam. One character. Each element is authored, tested, approved and allowed to join the world."}]},"aboutGame":{"canonStatus":"Bible-backed, with the physical–digital format reconfirmed by Brett Clements","sourceIds":["core-high-concept","core-player-promise","law-jungle","living-world"],"marketingSourceIds":["marketing-one-pager-2025-11-13"],"rulingIds":["game-format","genre-fusion"],"title":"What is Carny Island?","positioning":"An adult Halloween party game invented by Nightmare creator Brett Clements. A physical cemetery board links to smartphones used as playing pieces, portals and weapons inside Crookwood.","playerPromise":"Up to 12 adults gather around Crookwood, rob graves for body parts, valuables and anomalies, build zombies before sunrise, and use their phones to attack, defend and survive nine lives while Uncle Shrift runs the yard.","tone":"Comic 2D schlock horror: irreverent, grotesque and darkly funny, but governed by consistent systems rather than randomness.","platform":"The complete game joins tabletop and mobile play. The current Crookwood production build is also being developed and inspected on iPad.","structure":{"stages":6,"description":"Crookwood is divided into six stages. Each stage has a navigation hazard, things to harvest and a route deeper toward the Bulge and Shrift's cottage."},"run":{"lives":9,"ordinaryDeath":"Death spends one life and strips away immediate energy, but tools, harvested state and consequences can persist.","fullReset":"The ninth death ends the run and resets what the run law declares temporary."},"timing":{"title":"One Crookwood night","night":"The approach tunnel is dark and untimed. Crossing into the Yard begins a 24-minute staged journey from sunset through twilight, night, first light and sunrise.","dig":"A grave rob takes approximately 12 minutes. A real 6 × 4 × 7-foot grave would take hours to excavate by hand; Carny compresses that labour for play without pretending the result is exact science. The figure remains open to playtest tuning.","escape":"Sunrise begins an additional escape countdown of X. Reach the platform and tunnel safety threshold before it expires or lose another life.","demo":"The demo contains three Crookwood nights—approximately 72 minutes before night three’s escape countdown—and ends on night three’s curtain. This replaces the former 6-, 12- and 24-minute full-day choices."},"systems":[{"name":"Sugar","summary":"Donuts become energy. Energy makes action possible; depletion creates vulnerability and death."},{"name":"Excavation","summary":"Each grave is a tactile sequence of touch, reveal, reward and consequence."},{"name":"DOGMA","summary":"Dogma judges deliberate tool misuse through damage, excess and proportionality. JuJu remembers the player's sustained pattern without becoming a running score."}],"livingWorld":"New York time, KJFK weather, NOAA tides and the lunar calendar feed the theatre. The world outside the game changes the world inside it.","marketing":{"authority":"The November 13, 2025 one-pager is the latest dated marketing blurb. This language corrects its outdated domain and terminology, and incorporates Brett Clements' later rulings about the tabletop format, authorship, cinema and AI production.","eightSecond":"From Nightmare creator Brett Clements comes Carny Island — a Halloween party game of grave-robbing, zombie-building and demented comedy where smartphones become the playing pieces, portals and weapons, and Uncle Shrift runs the yard.","thirtySecond":"Up to 12 adults enter Crookwood on a physical cemetery board, using their smartphones as playing pieces and portals into the action. Rob graves for body parts, build zombies before sunrise and survive missiles, witches, rocket-powered pigs and each other. Nobody simply waits for a turn: players attack, defend, watch corpse-life flashbacks and become part of a live comic-horror show hosted by Uncle Shrift.","tabletop":"The giant cemetery board is a theatrical control surface: a spill-proof grid of graves, coordinates and blue-headstone deadens whose stories open through the phone.","activePlay":"The game keeps the whole table performing. Players can raid, retaliate, interrupt and watch the consequences instead of sitting outside the action until their next turn.","host":"Uncle Shrift supplies rules, instructions, commentary, scores and menace. He is not a help widget placed over the game; he is part host, part antagonist and part demented customer-service agent.","productionProof":"Carny Island grows from thousands of Brett Clements' original drawings and hundreds of animated films used to invent, test and explain the experience before the code catches up."},"entertainmentFusion":{"thesis":"Carny Island is not a point-and-shoot game. It explores the operating ideas of traditional entertainment genres and fuses them into a single playable performance.","forms":["The suspense and revelation of cinema","The shared ritual and physical geography of a board game","The direct address and audience control of television hosting","The running commentary and tribal energy of live sport","The archetypes of gangster films, slashers, funerals, cartoons and rock performance","The responsiveness, private viewpoint and weapon logic of a mobile game"],"corpseStories":"Every key deaden beneath a blue headstone has a life story. As a grave is robbed, animated flashbacks turn Vinnie the Pig, Cybil Munt, Marley the Bobster, The Claw and others into episodes inside the larger game.","result":"The board locates the body, the phone opens the scene, the film supplies memory and performance, the rules turn it into consequence, and the players complete the show together."},"deepDive":{"player":"The Villain is a three-foot resurrectionist seen in silhouette: small enough to turn an emptied four-foot grave trench into shelter.","objective":"Enter Crookwood at night, rob graves for bodies, valuables and anomalies, and travel deeper through six stages before the ninth death or sunrise.","stageLaw":"Each stage is a theatrical machine with a readable navigation hazard, harvestable things and a route toward the Bulge and Uncle Shrift's cottage.","economy":"Donuts become energy; bodies and valuables become trade; Dogma judges deliberate misuse; JuJu carries remembered consequence without behaving like a running score.","persistence":"Ordinary death spends a life, but tools, altered graves, harvested state and consequences can remain. The player returns without returning to innocence."}},"philosophy":{"canonStatus":"Directly grounded in Part I of the Archived Bibles","sourceIds":["core-creative-intent","core-player-promise","core-design-pillars"],"title":"Systems before spectacle.","thesis":"Carny Island makes death, danger and decay playable. Its humour can be grotesque and its theatre excessive, but the world must remain legible, cumulative and internally consistent.","tenets":[{"id":"systems","title":"Systems before spectacle","body":"The joke, shock or flourish must emerge from rules the player can understand. Spectacle is strongest when it has mechanical consequence."},{"id":"irreverence","title":"Irreverence with structure","body":"Nothing is sacred by default, but provocation is deliberate. Carny rejects random chaos and empty shock."},{"id":"death-resource","title":"Death as resource","body":"Death and the dead are inputs to the island's economy, memory and play—not merely a failure screen."},{"id":"escalation","title":"Cumulative escalation","body":"Actions leave residue. Pressure builds, damage persists and the world remembers patterns rather than erasing them for convenience."},{"id":"physical-digital","title":"Physical and digital belong together","body":"The tabletop board and mobile phones form one game. Phones are playing pieces and video portals, so physical and screen-based play must obey the same world law."},{"id":"coherence","title":"Coherence over comfort","body":"Continuity outranks novelty. The world may be hostile or absurd, but it cannot casually contradict its own laws."}],"closing":"The Bibles describe a rebellion built through systems: consequence without sermons, humour without nihilism and a handmade world whose machinery has a point of view."},"world":{"title":"The institutions of Carny Island","introduction":"Crookwood is not an isolated graveyard. It is the front counter of an economy, a religion, a media system and a very badly supervised entertainment empire.","entries":[{"id":"shrift","name":"Uncle Shrift","kind":"Host / antagonist / theatrical controller","status":"Canon established; customer-service desk live","canonStatus":"Bible-backed","sourceIds":["shrift-host","dogs-shrift","living-world"],"summary":"Shrift is Crookwood's host, antagonist and master of ceremonies: a functioning alcoholic whose mood moves from sober calculation at the New Moon to peak chaos at the Full Moon.","gameplay":"He cues theatrical weather and escalates danger at the top of the Chaos ladder. Rope creaks and ground shadows warn the player before his overhead threats arrive.","detail":"Shrift is a form of TheShapeShifter. On this website he operates the customer-service desk, answering questions from Carny Island's authorised record.","open":"Phase 1 commentary format and final cottage treatment remain Brett decisions.","deepDive":[{"label":"Office","value":"Master of ceremonies, antagonist and superintendent of Crookwood's funeral arrangements."},{"label":"Moon law","value":"His eight-phase lunar mood travels from sober calculation at the New Moon to peak chaos at the Full Moon."},{"label":"Warning language","value":"Rope creaks and ground shadows announce overhead threats before impact."},{"label":"Website role","value":"Shrift hosts the customer-service desk and answers questions from Carny Island's authorised record."}],"art":{"src":"/art/carny-pngs/shrift-in-your-face-6e27b079ea.webp","alt":"Brett Clements' authored Shrift In Your Face gameplay plate, with Uncle Shrift framed by the Carny Island interface and tool tray.","sourceKind":"browser-safe web display derivative of authored Shrift gameplay plate","sha256":"6e27b079ead9f89b0e2629badd3854774f42f571157482a6ff5529cc594d221f","displaySha256":"1176b0b8a50cf8ffb07f23804d25ec8dc256b8576d41f06124e7473a75aebe79"}},{"id":"mongril-dogs","name":"Mongril & The DogGones","kind":"Sound-first law / graveyard alarm","status":"System defined; Game 1 build not started","canonStatus":"Bible-backed; deeper Mongril biography comes from legacy Bible files","sourceIds":["dogs-shrift","mongril-legacy"],"summary":"Mongril, Ferret, Scrotum and Bastard are Shrift's dogs and the graveyard's living alarm. They moonlight as the rock band the DogGones, who provide the soundtrack for Carny Island. They are not introduced as a melee threat; they listen, judge and tell the rest of the island where you are.","gameplay":"Their escalation is audible and learnable: head-cock, growl, bark, howl, attack. Silence protects the player. Noise feeds shared pack distress and can eventually summon Shrift.","detail":"Mongril is one of Shrift's dogs and one of the DogGones. The legacy Bible gives him a magnificently unstable history: a Holy Man and former rocket scientist reincarnated as a dog, fortune teller, sword swallower and founder of Mongrilism. Black Dog is what Shrift drinks; Shrift is a closet cannibal whose drinking rises and falls with the phases of the moon. The dogs' other job is music: the DogGones provide Carny Island's soundtrack.","open":"Dog count, patrol shape and which parts of Mongril's legacy biography enter Game 1 remain Brett decisions.","deepDive":[{"label":"First function","value":"The Dogs begin as listeners and an alarm network, not as ordinary melee enemies."},{"label":"Escalation","value":"Head-cock, growl, bark, howl, attack: an audible chain the player can learn."},{"label":"Shared pressure","value":"Noise feeds pack distress and can push the cemetery toward Shrift's attention."},{"label":"Mongril","value":"One of Shrift's dogs; legacy Bible lore names him a reincarnated rocket scientist, Holy Man, fortune teller and sword swallower."}],"art":null,"artOverlay":{"src":"/art/carny-pngs/bigwhan-cutout-2741dadf4e.webp","alt":"Bigwhan, Brett Clements' authored depiction of Mongril in his crate.","width":778,"height":1080,"sha256":"3ce9f2d4bd7d965b517e28f9f699a2aca6fbe690b2874c368f013177831d112b","sourceSha256":"2741dadf4edee9d156ea26b1a4d2a8f45a15cf6166fac5ce4db9c7f6ebd8e52c","sourceKind":"transparency-trimmed web display derivative of Brett Clements' authored PNG"}},{"id":"pox-news","name":"POX News","kind":"The island's narrative broadcast","status":"Narrative surface established; implementation pending","canonStatus":"Bible-backed; doubtful schema fragments excluded by Brett","sourceIds":["pox-news"],"summary":"POX News reports Carny Island back to itself. It turns deaths, prices, scandals and new threats into an in-world broadcast instead of a detached menu of updates.","gameplay":"Johnny Prime anchors the news. Existing story anchors include the death of Marley The Bobster and heart prices going through the roof.","detail":"The news system can carry world consequences, introduce killers and make the horror economy feel public, ridiculous and alive.","open":"The current canon preserves the anchors and schemas while episode format and live delivery remain to be built.","deepDive":[{"label":"Anchor","value":"Johnny Prime reports the island's public version of events."},{"label":"Market ticker","value":"Organ prices, commerce and the absurd horror economy can move through POX News bulletins."},{"label":"Known bulletin","value":"Marley The Bobster is dead and heart prices are going through the roof."},{"label":"System purpose","value":"POX can convert run consequences into news instead of presenting them as a detached update menu."}],"art":{"src":"/art/carny-pngs/poxnews-6392ceb841.webp","alt":"Brett Clements' authored POX News logo.","sourceKind":"web display derivative of authored PNG","sha256":"6392ceb841f5dda6bf1d89b878b1de7d64f299a6f12a9ee7dcdbd7c1586b3ac0"}},{"id":"chapel","name":"The Chapel","kind":"One mercy / JuJu recovery","status":"Canon and authored vector established; gameplay not started","canonStatus":"Bible-backed; exact lifeline count requires reconciliation with a later Brett ruling","sourceIds":["chapel","law-jungle"],"rulingIds":["chapel-jesus-performance"],"summary":"The Chapel is Crookwood's public ritual node: a Pandora destination, a working part of the death economy and a place where confession can alter JuJu.","gameplay":"The Bible connects the Chapel to confession, redemption, JuJu recovery and bargaining with Shrift. The exact current lifeline count is being reconciled rather than invented here.","detail":"Bodies and coffins pass through its ceremonies. Jesus speaks with an Australian accent, and the bodies are timed to explode on the second joint or glass of wine.","open":"The archived V2 Chapel file says two lifelines per run; Brett later ruled one lifeline in two religious framings. The current contract needs his explicit final confirmation.","deepDive":[{"label":"Ritual node","value":"A functional ceremonial space, not decorative religious scenery."},{"label":"JuJu","value":"Confession and redemption can change the moral state carried by the player."},{"label":"Pandora","value":"The Chapel is one of the world's external destinations."},{"label":"Jesus","value":"He has an Australian accent. The second joint or glass of wine is the timed trigger for exploding bodies."}],"art":{"src":"/world/chapel.svg","alt":"Brett Clements' authored vector drawing of the Crookwood Chapel above a winding white path and orange and purple flowers.","sourceKind":"source SVG","sha256":"935ab2735c9e634e2b714e8e88121194de905d6b69a5c18193c689f412e8da19"}},{"id":"morgue","name":"The Morgue","kind":"Body intake / timed market","status":"Canon and authored vector established; gameplay not started","canonStatus":"Bible-backed; unspecified implementation details deliberately omitted","sourceIds":["morgue","necronomics"],"summary":"Crookwood County Morgue is a plain government dead-intake building where bodies become inventory and fresh organs enter the necro-economy.","gameplay":"Four nine-drawer cadaver coolers hold bodies and organs. Blackouts can turn intake and extraction into torch-lit navigation.","detail":"Best-Before organs are the exceptional loot whose value decays. Pandora gateway stones are intended to route players here.","open":"Interior interaction, extraction risk and exact gateway assignments remain unspecified in the archived V2 file.","deepDive":[{"label":"Inventory","value":"Four nine-drawer cadaver coolers create 36 possible body compartments."},{"label":"Blackout","value":"Power loss can make the utilitarian interior a torch-navigation problem."},{"label":"Exceptional loot","value":"Best-Before organs lose value as their condition decays."},{"label":"Access","value":"Pandora gateway stones are intended to route players into the Morgue."}],"art":{"src":"/world/morgue.svg","alt":"Brett Clements' authored vector drawing of the crooked grey Crookwood County Morgue with its blue sign and freezer door.","sourceKind":"source SVG","sha256":"946ff887e16aa2fc0e6b4f428457dbc2a6fdcdb44db0fb9f4d286ba4f5c2df70"}},{"id":"pizzeria","name":"Muma Maria's Pizzeria","kind":"Visible Crookwood landmark","status":"Authored vector established; gameplay role remains open","canonStatus":"Name reconciliation open between Bible and current authored sign","sourceIds":["pizzeria"],"rulingIds":["pizzeria-crematorium"],"summary":"Muma Maria's Pizzeria is a meat-loving shopfront that doubles as Crookwood's working crematorium.","gameplay":"Current high-authority build notes describe the Pizzeria as visible but non-playable. Its value is orientation, tone and the uneasy proximity of dinner to disposal.","detail":"The same ovens serve takeaway and cremation. The Bible calls the facility Mama Mia's PIZZA & Crematorium; Brett's current authored sign reads Muma Maria's Pizzeria. Both names are preserved until Brett rules on the final wording.","open":"The name discrepancy and any Game 1 interaction remain open. The Bible places the working burn-and-takeaway facility in a future build.","deepDive":[{"label":"Current role","value":"A visible, non-playable landmark in the current high-authority production notes."},{"label":"Double duty","value":"The Pizzeria and Crematorium are one working facility using the same ovens."},{"label":"Authored name","value":"The current sign reads Muma Maria's Pizzeria."},{"label":"Bible name","value":"The archived environment file says Mama Mia's PIZZA & Crematorium."}],"art":{"src":"/world/pizzeria.svg","alt":"Brett Clements' authored vector drawing of Muma Maria's Pizzeria with red and green lettering, a meal deal and a meat lovers window poster.","sourceKind":"source SVG","sha256":"5f2f2ac7d4f5dadfc25738deb8c215d42ff9da58eaa546d668e05b32f315b1b3"}},{"id":"gweedos","name":"Gweedo's","kind":"Premeditation market / economic predator","status":"Bible implementation framework established; Game 1 build not started","canonStatus":"Bible-backed","sourceIds":["gweedos","law-jungle","necronomics"],"summary":"Gweedo's is a black-market shopping assault run from a shipping-container elevator: flashing prices, bells, sirens, bad bargains and absolutely no refunds.","gameplay":"Players can buy tools, weapons and body parts, sell organs, take credit and even pawn lives. Buying a weapon is not a crime; deliberate misuse is where Dogma begins to judge.","detail":"Gweedo is a pawnbroker and economic predator. His shop exists to tempt poor decisions, exploit desperation and make the necro-economy feel like a rigged carnival midway.","open":"Final Game 1 inventory, prices, interface and exact debt tuning remain implementation work.","deepDive":[{"label":"The pitch","value":"A flashing, bell-ringing Too Good To Be True assault on the senses."},{"label":"The merchandise","value":"Tools, weapons, organs, limbs, implants and emergency parts for a Stein."},{"label":"The trap","value":"Prices move quickly, bargains vanish and the house is designed to win over time."},{"label":"The collateral","value":"The Bible permits lives to be pawned, while requiring one life to remain for play."}],"art":null},{"id":"necronomics","name":"Necronomics","kind":"The business of the dead","status":"Core economic doctrine established; detailed tuning remains open","canonStatus":"Bible-backed concept with deliberately unfinished mechanics","sourceIds":["necronomics","morgue","pizzeria","gweedos"],"summary":"Crookwood is not a crime scene. It is an industry: acquire the dead, process the dead, repurpose the dead and profit from the dead.","gameplay":"Time, biological viability, handling risk and market pressure turn bodies into decisions rather than a generic loot table.","detail":"The Morgue, Crematorium, Chapel, graveyard and Gweedo's form a single grotesque supply chain. Death is embedded in the island's economic order.","open":"Viability tiers, market regimes and their final coupling to JuJu and Chaos remain specification work in the Bible.","deepDive":[{"label":"Supply chain","value":"Acquire, process, repurpose and profit."},{"label":"Biology","value":"Best-Before windows make freshness a mechanical constraint."},{"label":"Market","value":"POX bulletins, Gweedo's offers and scarcity can make value publicly unstable."},{"label":"Moral weather","value":"Profit and consequence belong to the same world system."}],"art":{"src":"/art/carny-pngs/purple-gitcoin-c66989f4aa.webp","alt":"Brett Clements' authored purple GITCOIN artwork for Carny Island's economy.","sourceKind":"web display derivative of authored PNG","sha256":"c66989f4aaa644c62a7e7fa268002dd17d9ce1ca63ab36a4f54d1743492c85b7"}},{"id":"law-jungle","name":"The Law of the Jungle","kind":"Freedom, excess, consequence and memory","status":"Canon world law","canonStatus":"Directly Bible-backed","sourceIds":["law-jungle"],"summary":"Carny never stops the player. It remembers them. Its law creates consequence without sermons and punishment without moral finger-wagging.","gameplay":"Dogma has one hard breach: deliberate misuse of a tool. No object is sinful and possession is not a crime; the use, damage, excess and proportionality matter.","detail":"The law begins with free will. Carny responds when restraint was possible, excess was chosen and commitment was sustained.","open":"Exact thresholds and timing windows remain implementation details; the governing principle is locked in the Bible.","deepDive":[{"label":"Free will","value":"There is no accidental guilt and no passive sin."},{"label":"Dogma","value":"Deliberate misuse of a tool is the single hard breach."},{"label":"Proportionality","value":"Damage, excess force and context govern the response."},{"label":"Memory","value":"The island tracks sustained patterns rather than delivering instant moral lectures."}],"art":null},{"id":"joo-joo","name":"The JuJu Index","kind":"Moral temperature / remembered state","status":"Canon world state; implementation details remain open","canonStatus":"Directly Bible-backed","sourceIds":["law-jungle"],"summary":"The JuJu Index is Carny's moral accounting state. It rises and falls, remembers behaviour and judges patterns rather than isolated incidents.","gameplay":"JuJu appears as a face that changes only at meaningful thresholds. It communicates temperature, not a running number, and can carry across lives.","detail":"You can live with bad JuJu. You may even enjoy it. What you cannot do is pretend the island failed to notice.","open":"The final face states, thresholds and exact Chapel recovery values remain to be locked for Game 1.","deepDive":[{"label":"The face","value":"An international visual symbol that confirms awareness without displaying a morality score."},{"label":"Patterns","value":"The system responds to sustained behaviour, not one accidental input."},{"label":"Persistence","value":"Moral temperature can harden and remain across lives."},{"label":"Recovery","value":"The Chapel, confession and restitution can interact with JuJu."}],"art":{"src":"/art/carny-pngs/joo-joo-index-b6d816fe00.webp","alt":"Brett Clements' authored JuJu Index faces.","sourceKind":"web display derivative of authored PNG","sha256":"b6d816fe001dc9918f56df9fe99afbec1956e52c564b5ccb10a7b5d54e521cc7"}}]},"creator":{"name":"Brett Clements","role":"Game inventor, artist, writer, director, cinematographer, editor and journalist with a lifetime's practical understanding of cinema.","shortBio":"Brett Clements has spent more than forty years turning stories into pictures, productions and playable systems. He began as a teenage newspaper journalist, became a filmmaker on Simon Townsend's Wonder World!, built television and tourism campaigns, and co-founded A Couple 'A Cowboys.","gameLegacy":"He created, designed and directed Nightmare and ATMOSFEAR, the pioneering video board-game phenomenon that sold more than four million units across 32 territories and 12 languages. Carny Island continues that lifelong collision of theatre, games, film and audience participation.","now":"Mongril Labs is the team building Carny Island. Brett Clements created the world and its artwork; together we are turning that vision into a game, with AI supporting coding, testing and production.","position":"The carbon side of carbon-meets-silicon: the game inventor who knows what story, performance and cinema are for.","cinematicPractice":"Brett does not treat film as decoration around a game. He uses framing, editing, performance, suspense, direct address and genre memory as parts of the rules. Carny Island draws on gangster films, slashers, funeral theatre, cartoons, live sport, news broadcasts, rock performance and audience participation, then fuses them into one playable show.","workingMethod":"At Mongril Labs, we combine creative direction, art, engineering and real-world testing. Brett brings the authored world and creative vision. OpenAI and Anthropic support the team in turning that intention into working software and production evidence.","licensingExecutive":"Milt Barlow is the Executive in Charge of Carny Island Licensing.","timeline":[{"period":"1970s","title":"Journalism","body":"Brett began as a teenage newspaper journalist, learning to find the story and make it legible under pressure."},{"period":"1980s","title":"Film and television","body":"Work on Simon Townsend's Wonder World! developed a fast, visual and audience-facing way of telling stories."},{"period":"1990s","title":"Nightmare / ATMOSFEAR","body":"Brett created, designed and directed a video board-game phenomenon that joined performance, rules, timing and direct address."},{"period":"2010s","title":"Carny Island drawn","body":"The island accumulated by hand: characters, architecture, systems, signs and a philosophy looking for a production method."},{"period":"Now","title":"Carbon meets silicon","body":"Mongril Labs brings the team and AI production tools together to build the world Brett imagined and drew."}],"facts":[{"value":"40+","label":"years making stories"},{"value":"4M+","label":"Nightmare / ATMOSFEAR games sold"},{"value":"32","label":"international territories"},{"value":"12","label":"languages"}],"links":[{"label":"Brett's full professional record","href":"https://brettclements.net/"},{"label":"Brett on LinkedIn","href":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettclements/"}],"sources":["https://brettclements.net/","https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/p/brett-clements/3909/"]},"principles":[{"id":"authorship","label":"AI is the colleague, not the inventor","detail":"The imagination, philosophy, rules and artwork remain Brett's."},{"id":"objects","label":"Build objects, not promises","detail":"Every element earns its place through evidence and use."},{"id":"physics","label":"Physics authors the architecture","detail":"In Crookwood, the pendulum's danger envelope tells the stage where it can exist."},{"id":"fidelity","label":"The rendered line is the authored line","detail":"No silent retracing, smoothing or raster substitution."},{"id":"truth","label":"The installed app is the truth","detail":"Build counts are evidence. Brett's eyes and hands are the final gate."}],"gameplay":{"setting":"Crookwood Yard, Carny Island","player":"The Villain — a three-foot resurrectionist seen in silhouette","run":{"lives":9,"objective":"Rob graves for valuables and body parts, then get out before the ninth death or sunrise.","energy":"Donuts become usable energy.","moralCurrency":"JuJu reflects inferred intent and consequence; it is not a numerical morality score."},"stageMachine":{"name":"The Friggin' Pendulum of Fickle Fate","designEffect":"Navigation changes from where to when.","stage1":"A leather-wrapped, wooden-spiked ball on rope. Menacing, learnable and physically consistent.","safeTwist":"A robbed grave can become a bunker: the Villain is three feet tall and the trench is four feet deep."},"worldData":["KJFK weather changes substrate and atmosphere","NOAA tides inform the surrounding water","The lunar calendar changes Shrift's behaviour","New York time remains authoritative"]},"buildLog":[{"date":"2026-07-26","slug":"the-roof-was-wider-than-the-grave","stage":"Crookwood Stage 1 / Basement","title":"The roof was wider than the grave","dek":"The measurements were right. The art still crossed the wall.","challenge":"A nominal four-by-seven-foot footprint said every Gravebox was contained. Brett's packaged-app inspection showed one authored roof hanging outside the purple basement wall.","cause":"The authored roof and rafters are wider and asymmetric. A physical footprint was not the visible silhouette.","solution":"The perimeter gate now measures and rotates the union of the authored yard-floor support and chicken-wire roof. Four Graveboxes moved inward. The other 65 stayed exactly where they were.","gameplayImpact":"The basement can remain a believable enclosed stage without trimming, scaling or redrawing Brett's Gravebox art.","humanGate":"Brett's physical drive of the installed signed app remains the final judgement.","metrics":{"graveboxes":69,"moved":4,"authoredSvgSurfacesPerGravebox":15,"floorSheets":182,"toolMatrix":{"passed":39,"failed":0},"goldenFidelity":{"passed":20,"failed":0,"minimumGlobalSsim":0.9996469245658192,"minimumBlockSsim":0.9917784994401688},"primarySubsystemLines":4063,"lineCountScope":"12 dedicated C# builder, visual and test files for Graveboxes, floor, beams and wall.","elapsedWindow":"2026-07-23 to 2026-07-26"},"costModel":{"status":"scenario, not an invoice","assumption":"A conventional specialist team spending 3–5 weeks across technical art, Unity engineering and QA at a blended A$175–A$250 per hour.","estimatedAud":{"low":63000,"high":150000},"excludes":["Brett's decade of art and design","hardware and software subscriptions","future gameplay integration","marketing and publishing"]},"media":[{"kind":"image","role":"hero","src":"/media/2026-07-26/crookwood-visible-perimeter-overview.png","alt":"Crookwood Stage 1 builder showing 69 Graveboxes on the basement floor inside the purple perimeter wall.","caption":"After: all 69 complete authored silhouettes are inside the 50 m × 50 m wall."},{"kind":"image","role":"before","src":"/media/2026-07-26/gravebox-overhang-before.png","alt":"Close view of a Gravebox roof extending through the purple perimeter wall.","caption":"Before: the nominal footprint passed, but the authored roof still crossed the wall."},{"kind":"image","role":"plan","src":"/media/2026-07-26/crookwood-visible-perimeter-top.png","alt":"Top view of the Crookwood basement floor and Gravebox layout.","caption":"Top view: the correction moved four boxes and preserved 65."}]},{"date":"2026-07-25","slug":"building-the-basement-under-the-art","stage":"Crookwood Stage 1 / Basement","title":"Building beneath the drawing","dek":"Fourteen structural lines, 140 beam segments and a wall made from whole authored bays.","challenge":"The basement needed structure without painting over the floor, flattening its vectors or changing the approved Gravebox placement.","solution":"The beams were moved beneath the floor and extended wall-to-wall. A separate colourless depth sibling keeps below-floor structure from showing through opaque boards.","gameplayImpact":"The graveyard can become a physical set with depth, sightlines and destruction while the original floor drawing remains intact.","metrics":{"beamLines":14,"beamSegments":140,"wallBays":40,"goldenFidelity":{"passed":24,"failed":0},"toolMatrix":{"passed":28,"failed":0}},"media":[{"kind":"image","role":"plan","src":"/media/2026-07-25/basement-beams-top.png","alt":"Top view of the basement beam and wall construction in Crookwood Stage 1.","caption":"The structural layer, inspected separately from the untouched floor art."}]}],"video":{"status":"awaiting-approved-footage","title":"Crookwood walk-throughs","description":"The journal supports MP4, WebM, captions, poster frames, duration, chapters and a build-log relationship. The first film will publish when approved footage is selected.","requiredFields":["src","poster","captions","durationSeconds","recordedAt","relatedBuildSlug"]},"shriftHost":{"status":"text-live-base-voice-and-ai-performance-in-development","role":"Demented customer-service host for Carny Island and superintendent of Crookwood's funeral arrangements.","performanceRule":"Brett Clements supplies Shrift's authorised base voice performance. Approved effects and the AI character system may transform and perform through that material; do not substitute another human performance or unapproved synthesis.","artRule":"Use only Brett's approved Shrift artwork and Adobe mouth-chart frames. Do not redraw or generate replacements.","answeringStyle":["Answer the question directly in one to three short paragraphs.","Sound like an officious funeral-home customer-service agent whose patience died first.","Use dry menace, administrative language and occasional cemetery metaphors.","Never let character obscure a factual answer.","If the record does not contain the answer, admit the file is missing and invite Brett to add it."],"canonBoundaries":["Carny Island is the game. Coney Island is the real Brooklyn place.","Carny Island is a Halloween party game linked to a tabletop board, with mobile phones used as playing pieces and video portals.","Brett invented and drew Carny Island; AI assists production and will ultimately inhabit and play Uncle Shrift and The ShapeShifter inside Brett's authored rules.","Shrift is the antagonist and a functioning alcoholic who controls theatrical weather.","The player is The Villain, a three-foot resurrectionist with nine lives per run.","Do not invent release dates, prices, platform availability or unapproved lore.","Do not describe a build as ready, fixed or finished; Brett's installed-app drive is the final gate."],"starterQuestions":["What is Carny Island?","Who is The Villain?","Why is the graveyard built like a film set?","What does the pendulum do?","Is AI inventing the game?","What are you building today?"],"mouthChart":{"source":"Brett's Adobe sync-chart mouth artwork","status":"awaiting approved local or cloud source path","integrationContract":["phoneme or viseme id","approved frame asset","start milliseconds","duration milliseconds","expression override"]}},"automation":{"status":"designed-not-enabled","nextPhase":"Daily ingestion after Brett approves the site's first visual and editorial direction.","dailyFlow":["Read the latest dated handover and work-order receipt","Select only completed before-and-after evidence","Copy approved screen grabs and video","Calculate code and verification metrics from a declared scope","Draft one human-readable story and one JSON record","Require Brett's editorial approval","Publish"]}}