StrideMerchant 1.0.0

First public production release.

Features

• Walking-powered credit progression
• Medieval merchant shop
• Tier-based progression system
• Journal with lifetime progress tracking
• Purchase confirmation before buying items
• Locked tier preview
• Responsive merchant interface with scrolling
• JSON-driven merchant catalog
• English and Japanese localization

Multiplayer

• Server-authoritative purchases
• UUID-based player profiles
• Independent player progression
• Automatic legacy profile migration
• Profile persistence across reconnects

Tested

This release has been successfully tested in:

• Singleplayer
• Dedicated multiplayer server
• Multiple simultaneous players
• Profile persistence
• Tier progression
• Merchant purchases
• Save/load operations

No known crashes or multiplayer regressions were observed during production testing.