Make Tidefall feel like a living world

[jdarkyeka6]

Tidefall App 4.0

This builds the next gameplay layer on top of App 3.0. The goal is for the app to feel alive, remember curiosity, and make every system feed the same player identity.

World systems

• Adds a deterministic daily Tide world state that changes rooms, boosts spells, recommends quests and moves character locations
• Adds a v4 persistent save model with automatic migration from the v3 save
• Tracks total casts, failed casts, best cast quality, secrets, completed quests and achievements

Quests

• Adds a native Quest Log with multi-step objectives
• Quest steps automatically read Academy discoveries, spell mastery, cast totals, secrets, discoveries and reading progress
• Completed quests award Tide Points and feed achievements/titles

Secrets

• Adds a native Secret Archive
• Academy rooms contain findable secrets after investigation
• Book One can reveal a story secret
• Home contains a genuinely hidden interaction that reveals a secret after repeated curiosity

Achievements

• Adds visible and hidden achievements
• Achievements reconcile against real save state and award Tide Points
• Includes room, casting, mastery, failure, discovery, secret, quest and reading achievements

Academy

• Rebuilds Academy as a connected node map instead of a card directory
• Highlights rooms changed by today's Tide
• Shows characters currently present in rooms
• Changed rooms log a daily current discovery bonus
• Room investigation can now progress into an actual secret find

Magic

• Casting now scores release timing instead of binary success
• Tracks best cast quality per spell
• Undercharging and overcharging are persistent failures
• Daily Tide can boost a spell for bonus Tide Points
• Hidden failure-pattern achievements can unlock

Story

• Reader progress loads immediately
• Reading milestones feed quests and achievements
• Reaching the preview milestone reveals a story secret

Identity

• Profile is now the collection hub for rooms, spells, secrets, quests, achievements and reading
• Earned titles can be selected for the player's displayed Tidefall identity
• Character profiles show where each character currently is in the Academy

Discover

• Adds native Progress currents for Quests, Secrets and Achievements
• Lore discoveries reconcile achievements and feed the shared save

No new native dependency was introduced in this pass.

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Project	Deployment	Actions	Updated
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