I reverse-engineered manhwa power systems into a real habit RPG — the game design archaeology of SYD

What happens when you take Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis System, Pokémon type-matching, Zelda's ability gating, and Skyrim's Radiant AI — and wire them into a real-world habit tracker. A deep dive into the design decisions behind SYD, a self-improvement RPG built in vanilla JS with no framework and no dependencies.