Updates and design notes
A plain-language log of what Brikaya is building for players: free browser play, local progress, and clearer public information.
Last updated: 2026-07-16
2026-07-16 — Landing, /play/, and stale-cache recovery
The public home at https://brikaya.com/ is a crawlable landing with product prose, links to how-to-play, FAQ, updates, downloads, and trust pages. The interactive arcade runs at https://brikaya.com/play/ on the same origin so offline caching, ads.txt, and consent stay on one host.
A service-worker update now prefers network responses for HTML documents and clears old shell caches on activate. The landing also asks existing workers to update and, for installed standalone PWAs that still open the apex, redirects to /play/. That recovers blank screens caused by cached game shells pointing at removed hashed bundles.
2026-07 — Player guides and site readiness
We published crawlable how-to-play, FAQ, and updates pages in English and Brazilian Portuguese. These pages explain gameplay, privacy expectations, and install options without requiring a login. They exist so visitors and reviewers can understand the product from stable URLs, not only from the interactive shell.
Legal and trust pages (about, privacy, terms, support, and related notices) remain available as public references and were expanded in English with clearer detail about /play/, local storage, and contact paths. Editorial pages stay limited to en-US and pt-BR on purpose, so the sitemap does not multiply thin translated clones of the same guide.
Design intent of the arcade
Brikaya treats circuit components as the visual language of a classic clear-the-board arcade. The elastic bed replaces a rigid paddle metaphor so motion feels springy and readable in short sessions. Levels should stay understandable at a glance: what to hit, where the ball is going, and how to recover after a bad bounce.
The product stays offline-first after the first load. That choice keeps play available on flaky networks and avoids forcing an account for basic progress. Optional advertising, if ever enabled, is constrained to between-level moments so it does not fight the core control loop.
What we optimize for
Clarity over spectacle: players should learn the loop in seconds. Privacy over profile: local storage beats mandatory signup for this version. Stable public pages over marketing noise: about, legal, support, and the guides should answer real questions without internal jargon.
We will keep expanding player-facing notes here when features change. If you need help between updates, use [email protected] and include the browser and device you used.
Earlier foundation
Before these guides, Brikaya shipped as a free PWA-style arcade at brikaya.com with localized home and downloads shells, legal pages for platform reviews, and local high scores. The game menu already exposed privacy, terms, about, and legal links so players could leave the canvas and read policies.
Downloads explained browser install and offline continuation. That foundation still stands; the editorial pages and landing add depth that a single interactive screen cannot give search engines or first-time visitors who want to read before they play.