Hello Devlog — goals, stack, & first tasks

Kickoff! The plan: lock movement, input display, and guard/rapid-cancel logic into a playable sandbox before porting characters.

Goals (short)

• Neutral feel check: dash windows, jump arcs, landing lag.
• Input HUD: freeze rows on event; intercardinal handling.
• SMILE gauge stub: guard-cancel/rapid-cancel/burst toggles.

Stack

Ikemen-GO + Lua/ZSS for HUD and systems. Art pipeline via Aseprite. SFX testbed in Reaper.

First tasks

- [ ] Tune dash cancel rules
- [ ] Intercardinal hijack fix in displayinput.zss
- [ ] Minimal training HUD (fps, frame counter, hitstun ticks)
- [ ] Export first sandbox build

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