starveme/DESIGN.md

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Overall Design

User Journey

On first login, the user will be informed that the website is intended for adults and the dangers of starvation play. Once they have gone through the acknowledgment, they will be shown the "logged out" mode for game, where there is no cooldown for asking for meals. This is intended to be a testing environment both for development as well as for users to understand how the game works.

User safety considerations

To prevent refeeding syndrome, the game will not allow users to set the maximum fast duration over 3 days, and will be significantly more likely to allow food after 1 day. This makes sure that refeeding syndrome risks are minimized (This article indicates that 5 days in when risks start to become noticeable).