Bald mascot and one-word MatGames title on the loading screen

docs/BRANDING.md

@@ -9,17 +9,21 @@ The stock Godot boot splash (logo plus "GODOT Game engine") is replaced by the
 
 ## Asset
 
-`assets/branding/boot_splash.png`, 1024x1218, palette PNG with alpha
-(256 colors, 95 alpha levels), about 150 KB. Subject: cartoon zombie head and bust,
-unsettling grin, thumbs up, with "Mat Games" below in a phosphor-terminal typeface.
+`assets/branding/boot_splash.png`, 1024x1185, palette PNG with alpha
+(256 colors, 95 alpha levels), about 159 KB. Subject: cartoon zombie head and bust,
+bald scalp with a sparse hair fringe on the sides, unsettling grin, thumbs up, with
+"MatGames" below (one word, no space) in a phosphor-terminal typeface.
 
 Provenance is recorded in `tools/branding/manifest.json`:
 
 - mascot: generated with `agy_generate` (Antigravity direct API, model
   `gemini-3.1-flash-image`) on 2026-10-11 from no third-party source material; the
-  provider terms do not claim ownership of the output. Raw source kept at
-  `tools/branding/raw/` with its SHA256. Note that an image generator does not emit
-  real alpha, so the flat magenta background is keyed out locally;
+  provider terms do not claim ownership of the output. A second AI pass (`agy_edit`)
+  kept the face, grin, thumbs-up hand, shirt, pose and flat background and changed
+  only the hair to a bald scalp with a side fringe; both files and their SHA256 are
+  kept in `tools/branding/raw/` and the edit is recorded under `mascot_derived_from`.
+  Note that an image generator does not emit real alpha, so the flat magenta
+  background is keyed out locally;
 - lettering: drawn by script, not by the generator, because generated text is
   unreliable. Font `tools/branding/fonts/VT323-Regular.ttf`, glyphs of the DEC VT320
   terminal, licensed **SIL Open Font License 1.1** (license text kept next to it in
@@ -41,7 +45,8 @@ packed into the export (`tools/*` is already excluded by the export preset).
    pink tongue or the blue shirt because their red and blue are not both above green;
 4. crops to the subject, applies a 50 px fade at the bottom to soften the frame cut
    of the generated bust, and scales to 1024 px wide with 40 px side padding;
-5. draws the title with VT323 in amber over a blurred glow layer;
+5. draws the title with VT323 in amber over a blurred glow layer. The title defaults
+   to the one-word form `MatGames`; pass `--title` to change it;
 6. quantizes to 256 colors (no dither) and writes the PNG plus the manifest.
 
 ```sh
@@ -66,11 +71,11 @@ ratio; the exported shell confirms the result with the classes
 
 ## Verification
 
-- Exported `index.png` has the same 1024x1218 dimensions as the master. It is
-  re-encoded by the exporter to 32-bit RGBA (about 475 KB), so the bytes are not
+- Exported `index.png` has the same 1024x1185 dimensions as the master. It is
+  re-encoded by the exporter to 32-bit RGBA (about 496 KB), so the bytes are not
   identical; composited on black the two images differ by at most 6.4/255 on
-  0.14% of pixels, all with alpha below 20, i.e. invisible. The release keeps the
-  150 KB master in the repository and ships a gzip sidecar.
+  0.13% of pixels, all with alpha below 20, i.e. invisible. The release keeps the
+  159 KB master in the repository and ships a gzip sidecar.
 - The exported shell contains no "Game engine" text and the splash image has an
   empty `alt`.
 - `html/export_icon=false`, so no favicon is exported: the browser tab still shows

docs/WEB-DEPLOY.md

@@ -1,5 +1,21 @@
 # Web build and compressed deployment
 
+## Bald mascot release: 1194f239fcbd91d6
+
+Title is now the one-word `MatGames` and the mascot has a bald scalp with a side
+fringe (AI edit of the previous generation, see `docs/BRANDING.md`). PCK 4,347,536
+bytes; gzip payload total 12,796,287 bytes. Backup `index-before-bald.html`.
+
+Cleanup after this deploy: the three older directories (ddba14dd80539f19,
+9a376a3dbf674069, 7ebf03fe3c88be15) were removed with approval, leaving
+1194f239fcbd91d6 (live) and 097e6c64b42640ad (previous): 272 MB -> 110 MB, free space
+1,5 GB. The same guarded procedure was used (hash read from the live base href,
+hex validation, containment check, kept-list exclusion, `rm -rf --` with absolute
+paths) and the post-checks passed: root 200 with the new base href, live PCK
+byte-identical, previous release still served, removed release 404, and the live
+loading screen captured in the browser.
+
+
 ## Loading screen branding release: 097e6c64b42640ad
 
 See `docs/BRANDING.md`: black boot splash background and the "Mat Games" mascot in