A profile that answers one question

GMRLOG has a North Star, and it is locked: a profile should answer what kind of player is this? the moment it opens. Everything in the first two weeks of August was measured against that sentence.

The palette came first

The sprint opened by re-valuing the dark and light palettes and giving the app one plasma accent. Then a rule that sounds small and is not: rarity is encoded as geometry, not colour alone. A legendary badge has a different shape from a common one, so the information survives colour blindness, bad screens and screenshots.

The same pass turned up honest bugs. A toggle knob that "animated" but whose interpolation never advanced. A scrim that hard-coded black instead of reading its token. A cover that faked depth with a shadow when it should have been built from the surface. Each fix went in with the audit that found it.

Screens, recomposed

From there it was screen by screen — Achievements, Settings, Notifications, Messages, Discover, Profile, Register, Onboarding, Circles — each rebuilt on shared pieces instead of local copies. Profile was recomposed around a player record card; Register and Onboarding moved onto one shared auth shell. Tier lists got drag-to-reorder. The review composer became a writing surface rather than a form.

A match that shows its working

The feature I like most is DNA match. Two players get a similarity score — but the engine was changed to return a breakdown, not just a score, and the components are persisted. On a public profile the panel shows why you match, and it is gated to individual accounts. A number with no reasons is a horoscope.

Signing in

Account matching first, then Google, then Discord, then Steam. Steam had a trap: a self-reported Steam ID could be used to squat someone else's account. That path was closed, and later refused outright outside development. Settings gained connect and disconnect, with a guard that will not let you remove your last way in.

The session closed with an accessibility pass on the DNA panel and its progress bars, and a full check: 33 of 33 turbo tasks green.