1.3.0 is in App Review: Ascension, and a new world, ppa
bricolang 1.3.0 was submitted to App Review on September 27, 2026. It has not been approved yet, and we can't tell whether it will be before the submission deadline, so for now the App Store still serves 1.2.0. Everything below describes 1.3.0.
ASCENSION
Once every sign and connector of a board is in your hand, you can gather the language you have grown and start making words one level up.
- Keep zooming out past the farthest limit, and the board moves up. Its words are bundled by meaning into a new set of signs, and a fresh board begins with them.
- Zoom back in past the closest limit, and you return to the level below, one level at a time. The level below is kept exactly as you left it.
- The new signs do not know where they came from: to the level above, the board below is not part of its language. When you go back down, the color of each upper sign seeps in beneath the signs that belong to it.
- When a level is ready, a dot in the board's color appears next to the zoom-out control. Tap it once to zoom out to the edge, and again to go up.
- It works from any level, as many times as you like, and in every world, including the free one.
- A card saved from an upper level carries a small row of dots beside the app's name, one for each level below, each in that level's color.
A NEW WORLD: ppa
ppa is a new additional world, sold as a one-time purchase through RevenueCat, like mss. It has its own signs, its own voice and its own lexicon.
- Its signs are everyday objects.
- Its colors run through a warm band, from orange through yellow and a little green to light blue.
- Its nine connectors each draw with a different stroke. The firm ones are the fixed connectors; the soft ones are the wavering ones.
- Bonding is a merge: the two parents slide into the new bond and bounce as they land, with a pop, a pop, and one merged hit.
- Its beat is kicks and claps, and the ring at the top right is a chain of overlapping circles that swell when it sounds.
THE SCREEN STAYS ON
A lot of bricolang is watching and listening rather than touching. While the app is open, the screen no longer dims and locks on its own. Once the app leaves the foreground, the device's usual auto-lock applies again.
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