VidQuest Studio

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Recreate a polished, responsive fake-video-platform management game called “VidQuest Studio.” It is a 2D web app, not a 3D game: the player browses a dark YouTube-like feed, opens pretend videos, interacts with them, and grows a personal channel.

Visual style: full-screen dark interface with near-black navy background (#0f1117), charcoal panels, thin translucent borders, rounded corners, strong white typography, muted gray secondary text, and hot pink/red accent buttons with soft neon shadows. Use a bold rounded sans-serif style similar to Inter/Rubik. The top bar has a pink rounded rectangle play icon, the VidQuest wordmark, a large pill-shaped search field labeled “Search VidQuest videos,” a Search button, and a bright “+ Post” button. Desktop layout has a left sidebar and scrollable main feed; mobile layout collapses into a horizontal navigation strip and a one-column feed.

Main screen: left navigation buttons for Home, Trending, Gaming, Music, Live, and Your videos. The active item has a darker rounded panel background. Under the nav, show a “Your channel” stats card with the channel name “Pixel Pilot,” subscriber count initially 28, and creator coins initially 0. The main content starts with a large rounded hero panel with a subtle pink glow and gradient, heading “Search videos, watch them, and build your channel.”, supporting copy explaining that users can search, watch, like, subscribe, or post made-up videos, and two buttons: “I’m feeling lucky” and a red animated “Go live.” Below it show a status label such as “Recommended for you • 8 found” and a responsive grid of video cards.

Seed the feed with these made-up videos, each having a title, creator, category, description, colored thumbnail, views, likes, duration, and comments: “Building a Secret Treehouse Base” by Tiny Builder (gaming, green, 8:14); “I Tried Every Lava Jump” by Parkour Panda (gaming, orange, 12:02); “Sleepy Synth Beat for Homework” by Moon Mixer (music, purple, 3:33); “Tiny Cooking: Giant Pancake” by Snack Wizard (trending, yellow, 6:47); “Speed Drawing a Dragon Cat” by Sketch Fox (home, cyan, 5:26); “Top 7 Funny Robot Fails” by Gear Giggles (trending, gray, 9:59); “Winning With Only Wooden Tools” by Quest Kid (gaming, brown, 14:20); and “Rainy City Night Walk” by Pixel Places (music, blue, 18:45). Also include live seed videos “LIVE: Building With Viewers” by Tiny Builder and “LIVE: Chill Beat Requests” by Moon Mixer. Display normal cards with a large colorful thumbnail, diagonal stripe treatment, highlight glow, centered dark translucent play button, duration badge in the lower-right, title, creator, and compact views/likes metadata. Live cards instead show a red LIVE badge and a “watching” count.

Core interaction: searching filters videos case-insensitively by title, creator, description, category, or live keywords and updates the result count. “I’m feeling lucky” selects a random search term from ideas like dragon, robot, parkour, music, cooking, base, rainy, speed, and live. Sidebar buttons filter by category, show only live videos, or show only the player’s uploads. Sort visible videos by combined views and likes. If no results exist, show “No videos found. Try another search or post your own.”

Opening a card displays a centered dark modal watch panel over a dimmed backdrop. Increment the video’s views by a small random amount when opened; for live videos also increase viewers. If it is the player’s own video, award a small amount of creator coins for opening it. The modal contains a close X, a fake visual player with a colorful gradient background, a glowing sun, abstract geometric mountains, and a simple dancing avatar silhouette. Put a pulsing play icon in the center. For live videos add a red LIVE overlay and change the center indicator to LIVE. Under the player show title, creator/category or LIVE label, views or current watchers, description, and rounded buttons: Like, Subscribe, and Share. Like can be performed once, increments likes, and awards +2 coins for the player’s own upload. Subscribe can be performed once per creator and updates the player’s subscriber count when appropriate. Share uses native share if available or copies “Watch [title] on VidQuest!” to the clipboard, then shows a temporary toast.

Below the watch details show a Comments section with existing comments, rounded comment bubbles, and an input plus Post button. Posting a normal comment appends it and awards +1 creator coin if it is the player’s own video. On live videos the input placeholder says “Send a live chat”; sending a message also increases viewers and likes, and awards +3 coins for the player’s own livestream. Live videos automatically receive fake chat messages every few seconds from a small pool such as “W stream!”, “Can you do a challenge?”, “New viewer here.”, “That was funny!”, “Chat is going so fast!”, and “Drop a like!”, while viewer counts fluctuate. Stop the live chat timer when the modal closes.

Posting: “+ Post” opens a modal form titled “Post your own video” with fields for video title, channel name, category select (Gaming, Music, Trending, Fun), a “Make it a livestream” checkbox, description textarea, and thumbnail color picker. The submit button says “Upload video.” Default the creator to the current channel name. Creating a normal upload makes a new card with randomized modest views, likes, and duration, marks it as owned, gives it starter comments, increases subscribers by a small random amount, and awards +10 creator coins. Creating a livestream automatically prefixes the title with “LIVE:” if needed, uses duration LIVE, initializes viewers, uses live starter comments, sets the current filter to Live, and awards +10 coins with a “You are live!” toast. Normal uploads switch to Your videos. Reset the form after posting.

Persist the complete game state in localStorage under “vidquest-studio-state-v1,” including videos, channel name, subscribers, coins, liked IDs, and subscribed creators, while retaining missing seed live videos if an old save lacks them. Provide a small temporary toast notification for actions and close modals via X, backdrop click, or Escape. Expose a game-state API equivalent to getGameState() returning video count, current filter/query, current video ID, subscribers, coins, channel name, own video count, and live video count; and setGameState(patch) allowing filter, query, subscribers, coins, and channel name changes. Use safe text rendering for user-created titles, descriptions, comments, and creator names.