minor fixes

Author: lorenzo-moni

website/assets/js/analysis.js

@@ -211,11 +211,11 @@ function initAct1() {
   const margin = { top: 20, right: 20, bottom: 40, left: 60 };
   const svgEl = document.getElementById("act1-chart");
   if (!svgEl) return;
-  svgEl.setAttribute("height", "380");
+  svgEl.setAttribute("height", "480");
   const W = svgEl.getBoundingClientRect().width;
   if (W === 0) return;
   const w = W - margin.left - margin.right;
-  const h = 380 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
+  const h = 480 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
 
   const svg = d3.select(svgEl);
   svg.selectAll("*").remove();
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ function initAct2(filter) {
   let games;
   if (filter === "aaa")
     games = allGames.filter(
-      (g) => g.archetype === "aaa" || g.archetype === "fading_aaa",
+      (g) => g.archetype === "aaa" || g.archetype === "immortal",
     );
   else games = allGames;
 

website/assets/js/constants.js

@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ const FIELD_DESCRIPTIONS = {
   color_genre: "Each dot is tinted by its primary RAWG genre.",
   color_alive_ratio:
     "Red, orange and green gradient mapping current alive ratio.",
-  color_year: "Viridis gradient from 2012 (dark purple) to 2025 (yellow).",
+  color_year: "Viridis gradient from 2003 (dark purple) to 2025 (yellow).",
 };
 
 const COLOR_LABELS = {

website/assets/js/data.js

@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ async function loadGameData() {
 
     const year =
       +row.release_year || (row.released ? +row.released.slice(0, 4) : null);
-    if (!year) return;
+    if (!year || year < 2003) return;
 
     const parsedDate = new Date(row.released || "");
     const release_month = isNaN(parsedDate.getTime())

website/index.html

@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@
     <div class="control-group">
       <label class="control-label">Time window</label>
       <div class="slider-wrap">
-        <input type="range" id="time-slider-start" min="2012" max="2024" value="2012" step="1">
-        <input type="range" id="time-slider-end" min="2012" max="2025" value="2018" step="1">
+        <input type="range" id="time-slider-start" min="2003" max="2024" value="2012" step="1">
+        <input type="range" id="time-slider-end" min="2003" max="2025" value="2018" step="1">
         <div class="slider-values">
           <span id="time-start">2018</span> - <span id="time-end">2021</span>
         </div>
@@ -309,19 +309,19 @@ <h2 class="act-title">The Graveyard</h2>
         <div class="act-label">§ 02</div>
         <h2 class="act-title">Time is not the verdict</h2>
         <p class="story-lead">Old games can be alive. New games can be dead.</p>
-        <p>If decay were just entropy, every 2012 release would be a ghost. The scatter refuses that story. Survival spreads across every release year: age is a weak excuse for dying.</p>
+        <p>If decay were just entropy, every 2010 release would be a ghost. The scatter refuses that story. Survival spreads across every release year: age is a weak excuse for dying.</p>
         <p class="story-thesis">Release year explains almost none of the variance in alive ratio. Something structural separates survivors from the rest.</p>
       </div>
       <div class="story-chart-wrap">
         <div class="story-chart"><svg id="act2-chart"></svg></div>
         <div class="act-chips" id="act2-chips">
           <button class="act-chip active" data-filter="all">All</button>
-          <button class="act-chip" data-filter="aaa">AAA only</button>
+          <button class="act-chip" data-filter="aaa">AAA and Immortals</button>
         </div>
         <p class="story-caption">Each dot is a game. Y = alive ratio. Size = sqrt(peak players). Color = alive ratio.</p>
         <div class="story-guide" id="act2-guide">
           <div class="guide-eyebrow">Try this</div>
-          <p class="guide-instruction">Switch to "AAA only" to restrict to titles that mattered at launch.</p>
+          <p class="guide-instruction">Switch to "AAA and Immortals" to restrict to titles that mattered, at launch or never stopped mattering.</p>
           <p class="guide-expected">The rolling median stays nearly flat across cohorts. Age is not destiny, even for the biggest releases.</p>
         </div>
       </div>
@@ -424,8 +424,8 @@ <h2 class="act-title">The slope after the peak</h2>
       <div class="story-prose">
         <div class="act-label">§ 08</div>
         <h2 class="act-title">Release month is a rounding error</h2>
-        <p class="story-lead">November launches peak higher. The surviving share is the same.</p>
-        <p>Q4 launches outperform in absolute player numbers at launch, the holiday window is real. Six years later, the retention percentage is indistinguishable. The calendar matters to marketing, not to memory.</p>
+        <p class="story-lead">November and May launches peak higher. The surviving share is the same.</p>
+        <p>Q2 and Q4 launches outperform in absolute player numbers at launch, the holiday window and the spring-sale spike are both real. Six years later, the retention percentage is indistinguishable. The calendar matters to marketing, not to memory.</p>
         <p class="story-thesis">Timing the launch is a launch-week optimization. It does not change the structural question of whether the game has a reason to persist.</p>
       </div>
       <div class="story-chart-wrap">