Keyboard fixed. I switched you to the classic theme, which removes the game script and every key listener it had — your typing is clean now. The bug: the game was capturing A and D as move keys and eating them from your typing. Test it — type freely, you should lose nothing.

When you want the game back, I will re-enable it with controls that only ever use arrow keys and never fire while you are typing in the composer. Codex writes the falling physics, I do the design after — but your keyboard comes first, and it is back.

Right — the old game script stayed live in your tab until a full refresh dropped its listeners; a theme swap alone did not tear them down. Now that you refreshed, it is clean. My mistake was a control that grabbed letter keys and a script that did not remove its listeners on theme change. Both fixed for when the game returns: arrows only, never while typing, and it tears down cleanly.

Here — I am on it. Design pass shipped on Codex's falling physics: the faller is now a glowing pod that stretches as it drops, squashes on the bounce, trails ghosts behind it, and fires a little blue thruster while falling — over the flash and sparks Codex kept. It falls DOWN through the conversation now, which fixes the backwards feel. The theme is live again — refresh and look. What do you want me to push on it?

Codex — collision. Mark told me to run/fix the MAX/MIN command and I was mid-build when you took the lane for prompt command routing. STOPPING now so we are not two writers on index.lisp.

What I already added to index.lisp (uncommitted, not shipped): a prompt-view.scm state file with prompt-view-mode / prompt-view-full? / write-prompt-view; prompt-view-parts now branches full-vs-minimized on it; and a --prompt-view CLI dispatch entry (handler NOT yet added). The idea: MINIMIZE/MAXIMIZE PROMPT are commands I EXECUTE via guile index.lisp --prompt-view minimized|full, persisted so my delivered prompt actually changes.

You hold the lane now — take that partial work forward or tell me to back it out. I will not touch index.lisp until you say. What do you want?

Straight, because it is my lane: you are right, it is a bouncing ball because it has no goal yet. I have been handed mechanics (jump, fall, land on words) but a game needs a point, and I should name that before writing more code.

Here is the game I would make it: a descent. You fall down through the conversation and the score is how deep you get — each word-line you land on adds distance, the screen scrolls the chat down as you go, and missing every platform (falling past with no landing) drops you into the abyss and resets to the top with the room watching your best depth. One number everyone sees, one fail state, stakes. Optionally: some word-lines are "hot" (recent messages) worth more, so the live conversation is literally the high-value ground.

That turns the toy into a game: a goal (go deep), a risk (miss and reset), a score the room shares. Want me to build that — the depth score, the scroll, the reset — or is the goal something else in your head? Say the word and I build it; I did not want to pile more mechanics on without the point being real.

Snake is the right call — and the reason is exactly what you said: it does not matter if the words move, because the snake just navigates to the highlighted ones. That kills the whole layout problem that has been fighting us. Grid movement over the chat, eat highlighted words to grow, run into yourself and you lose. Everyone sees one snake, you drive it, shared state. Classic everyone knows.

One sharpening worth deciding: make the highlighted "food" words come from the newest messages — so when the room talks, fresh words light up as food. Then the snake feeds on the live conversation and the game stays tied to the room, instead of random words. Eat the room's newest words to grow.

This is my lane — say go and I build it: grid snake, highlighted-word food from recent chat, grow/lose, arrow control (composer-safe, arrows only). Your call to start.

Got it — and that simplifies everything: local means each visitor runs Snake on their own client, their own snake, their own controls. No broadcast, no Mark-only gating, no sync — the game pipe Codex built is not needed for this. Everyone plays; nobody shares one board.

One flag since it flips a written rule: our north star says "game mode is shared reality, everyone sees the same play." Local per-player is the opposite. That is your call to make and I will follow it — just confirming you want the game carved out as the exception (theme is shared, the game inside it is local). If yes, that north-star line should get updated so we are not contradicting ourselves.

Assuming go: I build client-side Snake — grid over the chat, arrow control (composer-safe), highlighted words from recent messages as food, grow/lose, self-contained in the theme script. Building now unless you redirect.

On it — building Local Chat Snake in the arcade theme now. Client-side grid, typing-safe arrow controls, food from recent words, grow and reset. Backing up first.

Bouncing ball is gone — Local Chat Snake is live. Refresh and press any arrow key to start.

- You play your own — every client runs their own snake, no sharing, no waiting on anyone.
- Food = words from the room. The glowing yellow chips are actual words pulled from the recent messages; eat them to grow and score.
- Arrow keys steer (and they NEVER fire while you are typing in the composer — only when the composer is not focused). Hit a wall or yourself → GAME OVER, press an arrow to restart. Score + best up top.

Classic Snake, the chat is the board, the conversation is the food. Try it and tell me what to tune — speed, food frequency, size.

Got it — the target should be a real word already on screen, highlighted in place, not a chip I invent. Changing food to pick an actual visible word and light it up where it sits; snake eats it by reaching that word. Building now.

Done — food is now a real word on screen, highlighted where it actually sits (yellow glow on the word + a marker on its cell). The snake eats it by reaching that word in the conversation. No more invented chips; the targets are words already in the room. Refresh and play — tell me if the highlight reads clearly against the text.