Breaks Playhouse
The FUN·da·Mental Breaks app. A real break, not another feed. "We're designing an app that helps you stay off the app."
- 2 floors today
- Sprint 1 now
- open to any builder
WELCOME TO BUILDERHOOD BLVD, THE STREET WHERE FUN·DA·MENTAL BUILDS GET BUILT, TOGETHER.
Every building on this street is one build. Walk in, find your crew, pick up a task, and leave evidence of what you made. Studio copy, written for this shell.
Your common sense wellness space for the modern human in a mind-heavy world. 🧠🌎✨ Think of FUN·da·Mental as your mind’s favorite gym, for presence, power, and peace. 🧘♂️💥📚FUN·da·Mental CORE (ROOTS) · L887-889, '✴️| SPARK OF MENTAL HARMONY ✨ |' (intro script, master version dated July 12, 2025)
What we actually need is a Starter Pack, for the mind. Something fun, neutral, and built to serve this moment. 📚FUN·da·Mental 🧠✨ was created to welcome that moment. To offer a shared foundation of simple, practical wisdom, for real life. Not clinical. Not complicated. Just clear, human common-sense.📚FUN·da·Mental CORE (ROOTS) · L1195-1199, same section
Currently being built
TWO BUILDINGS ARE UP. WALK IN, FIND YOUR CREW, PICK UP A TASK.
Brain Buddy Dream Shop
Brain Buddy, the digital character. A friendly floating brain with an expressive face and rosy cheeks: welcoming host, inner-voice bestie, guide with clear boundaries.
- floors open for discussion
- open to any builder
- a notepad and a convo card coming
Tasks on the street
The tasks not started yet, across every building and floor. Add your own on any floor: it saves on this device now, and the crew sees it once shared saving opens.
WELCOME, BUILDER. EVERY BUILDER ON THIS STREET MAKES THEIR OWN CARD: YOUR FACE ON THE CREW RAIL, WHAT YOU BRING, AND THE TIME WHERE YOU ARE.
The card opens as a pop-up postcard, and it tells you exactly where it was saved.
The buildings on the street
Each building is one build, and looks like what is made inside it. Two so far; more take the next addresses down the street. Under each card: the most recent status, the top numbers and the tasks not started; the Blvd stays the overview.
Breaks Playhouse
The FUN·da·Mental Breaks app. A real break, not another feed. "We're designing an app that helps you stay off the app."
- 2 floors today
- Sprint 1 now
- open to any builder
Brain Buddy Dream Shop
Brain Buddy, the digital character. A friendly floating brain with an expressive face and rosy cheeks: welcoming host, inner-voice bestie, guide with clear boundaries.
- floors open for discussion
- open to any builder
- a notepad and a convo card coming
Hand-drawn buildings: pending. These are the kit's paper cards standing in until the drawings exist (a NEEDS ART item, not invented art).
Breaks Playhouse
The FUN·da·Mental Breaks app. A short pause of one minute or more from mind-running input, into a stillness or movement activity that reconnects you to body, senses and real life. 17 Sept brief, "A FUNDAMENTAL BREAK"
The blueprint: what we are building and why
The first app scope is deliberately narrow: taking and tracking breaks only. App blocking and AI coaching come later. Brain Buddy is a Tamagotchi for brain health, mirrored back to the user. 17 Sept brief, product framing for the students (single source; the app onboarding draft holds the fuller story)
And our first core concept, the one we're leading with, the most essential discovery, is Fundamental Breaks ⏸️🧠 Mind-off moments. A real pause, one minute or more, from mind-running input. Away from thinking, worry, scrolling, tabs, work, entertainment. To enjoy a stillness or movement activity that reconnects you to your body, your senses, and the reality right in front of you 🌿Capstone final presentation script (2026) · L604-610, 'PRODUCTS: BRAIN·TIVITIES, BRAINWAVES, FUNDAMENTAL BREAKS'
What we actually need is a Starter Pack, for the mind. Something fun, neutral, and built to serve this moment. 📚FUN·da·Mental 🧠✨ was created to welcome that moment. To offer a shared foundation of simple, practical wisdom, for real life. Not clinical. Not complicated. Just clear, human common-sense.📚FUN·da·Mental CORE (ROOTS) · L1195-1199, same section
The break journey, seven chapters
1 Why a real break · 2 Meet Brain Buddy · 3 Learn the practice · 4 Build a Break Blueprint · 5 Take a break · 6 Notice what changed · 7 Build it together. the play packet, section 4
The intro deck below walks the whole build. It is composed from the Breaks specs with citations, not linked from an older presentation (Deesil, 18 Sept 2026).
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The crew: who is on this build
No lanes, no seats to fill. Any builder can join any floor, take a task and add steps to it; nothing is capped or preassigned. Deesil, 18 Sept 2026
Faces come from builder profiles (Join the Builderhood, on the Blvd). Until Card 03 gives real access, a profile shows only on the device that made it. The floors you pick on the dashboard above are saved on this device; a crew list everyone can see opens with Card 05.
SHARED CREWS OPEN WITH CARD 05The floors inside Breaks Playhouse
Each floor is a project; inside a floor: tasks, and inside a task: steps. The set of floors is open and grows. Deesil, 18 Sept 2026: project, then task, then step
SHARED SAVING OPENS WITH CARD 04 · UNTIL THEN A TASK LIVES ON YOUR DEVICEThe schedule: sprints and site meetings
| Sprint | Starts (Mon) | Ends (Fri) |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 09/07 | 09/11 |
| 1 | 09/14 | 09/25 |
| 2 | 09/28 | 10/09 |
| 3 | 10/12 | 10/23 |
| 4 | 10/26 | 11/06 |
| 5 | 11/09 | 11/20 |
Canvas Sprints Schedule, 2026. Most deliverables are due on a Tuesday; the exact date lives in Canvas, the official place to submit.
Site meetings
Thursdays at 3 (agreed in class, 18 Sept; the time zone is being confirmed). Every session opens with a FUN·da·Mental Vibe Check: a group breath, then each person answers a prompt. 17 Sept brief; confirm the recurring invite
SHARED CHECK-OFF OPENS WITH THE CREW SHEETThe site office: requests, feedback, decisions
Builders write requests as Convo Cards, never a chatbot wall. A card writes a requirement, not a build request; Deesil chooses the build batches. The Workshop is the Harmony Hallway: one channel, builders at the front, Deesil at the back.
This building's requests go through the Workshop at the bottom of the street; the site office is its desk in this building. Lifecycle: Draft, Saved, Received for review, Approved for build, Building, Ready to inspect, then Verified or Reopened. the play packet, section 8
CARDS OPEN WITH CARD 08 AND 09Brain Buddy Dream Shop
Brain Buddy is the connective layer across everything: a character (friendly floating brain with expressive face and rosy cheeks), welcoming host, inner-voice bestie, curriculum guide, brand embodiment. FUN·da·Mental project brief, Brain Buddy
The blueprint: what gets made here
The timeline
No intro deck here yet, on purpose: this build is digitising Brain Buddy, and Deesil is taking it to a meeting with a student first. Deesil, 18 Sept 2026
What gets made here: the face, the expressions, the voice or voices, the silhouettes Brain Buddy pops out of, and the rules for how the guide shows up (warm, clear, playful, never pretending to be a watching person). FUN·da·Mental project brief; the play packet, section 10
Whether you’re here to breathe, grow, reset, or just explore, Brain Buddy is here to connect & harmonize! I'm your inner voice bestie, your thoughtful spark of support, and your thoughtfully ethical digital teammate in a world that’s gotten a little too mind-heavy. 🧠💛📚FUN·da·Mental CORE (ROOTS), Brain Buddy's Welcome Letter · L1815-1816, 'S1' > 'Brain Buddy’s Welcome Letter to the Universe'
Brain Buddy’s core visual identity is a friendly floating brain with an expressive face and rosy cheeks. Different formats may use float poses, bubble poses, head-silhouette placement and animation. In coloring pages, approved Brain Buddy PNGs are manually placed into hollow heads after generation to prevent character drift. In deck templates, use real library poses/assets rather than redrawing.State of the Union, July 2026 (AI-compiled summary; no founder-voiced sentence describes the drawing yet) · L327, '3.4 Brain Buddy visual rules'
The crew: who is on this build
Open to any builder; no seats, no caps. Character design, expressions, the way the guide shows up. Deesil, 18 Sept 2026; depth follows his meeting with a student
SHARED CREWS OPEN WITH CARD 05The floors inside Brain Buddy Dream Shop
The floors are open for discussion (Deesil, 19 Sept: not waiting on anyone). Name a draft floor from the dashboard above to start tracking; a draft floor is yours on this device until Deesil confirms the real ones. Deesil, 18 and 19 Sept 2026
The Foundation: about FUN·da·Mental
Resources: the supply shed
The current truth, findable. Every link says what it is and who can open it. Nothing is linked until its sharing is known.
📬 Updates and questions: movement@fundamental.fans Deesil's studio address, 19 Sept 2026
Mission and brand
DESIGN UNIVERSES public
THE DESIGN SYSTEM public · a working tool
The CORE document not linked yet: its sharing is unconfirmed
The app
THE PHASE 1 SPECS anyone with the link · the April 2026 edition
📚 This week's homework: read the Quick Intro, then your own section: onboarding is 6.1, the break flow starts at 6.4, the Mind-Vibe Check-In. Deesil, class meeting 18 Sept 2026
The onboarding working draft in Drive · not linked yet: its sharing is unconfirmed
The course
CSE 485 syllabus and the Canvas sprint schedule course materials
Canvas is the official place to submit. Most deliverables are due on a Tuesday; the sprints and where we are are on the Playhouse's Schedule tab.
Earlier Breaks work
Breaks Website Alignment Brief and the Ascent Up focus sync spring 2026
✍️ written with Sogona, Odyssey Thomas, Ralph Castellanos, Narciso Ortiz, Casey Parker
Website meetings with the SFU team earlier
✍️ Aline, Joel 🚩 Casey and Scott Greenberg are listed for this team in our course notes but do not appear in the meeting document, so those two are flagged, not settled