Odd Neighbours: UI mock-ups
Everyone owns one room in a strange apartment building. Every day, everyone changes something. Tomorrow you discover what living next door to these people has done to your home.
Every page uses the same fictional cast and the same overnight change: rain from u/fern_and_fog's room upstairs turns your bakery into a mushroom bakery. Mrs Pell is a computer resident. Nothing here is a working game.
First-look check: do this before showing anyone this page
Send 3–5 people straight to one of these links, say nothing, and ask “What happened here?” Write their words down exactly. It passes if most describe the bakery becoming mushroom-themed or growing something, rather than damage or a leak.
A. Layout directions same content, same states
Compare these for layout only. Each has the feed card at two test sizes (340 px and 520 px, not Reddit's real limits), moving in, and the morning reveal with and without captions.
Home window
Your room fills the screen; neighbours are chips around it, and the neighbour who caused the change gets real space.
Comic reveal
Three panels: yesterday, the neighbour's change, your room now.
Lobby stories
A noticeboard of the building's overnight stories, leading into your room.
| Direction | Pros | Cons |
|---|---|---|
| Home window, causing neighbour enlarged | Strong ownership, and the relationship gets space when it matters | Little sense of the wider community; the enlarged edge mustn't crowd your room |
| Comic reveal | The cause and the joke are clear at once; very screenshot-worthy | Less to explore; feels like a cut-scene |
| Lobby stories | Discovery and sharing; very Reddit-like | Your home comes second; text-heavy |
B. Enhancement stages built on Home window
Each stage adds one thing on top of direction A. If another direction wins, these get rebuilt on it.
| Stage | Adds | Watch for |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Before/after inspection | Several effects at once could get busy |
| 3 | Respond to both, either or neither; note under the door | Implies mechanics we haven't designed |
| 4 | Shared history | Only means something after several days |
Also
The whole building: an overview reached from every direction. It shows a newcomer on the newest floor.
These pages are kept out of search engines, but anyone with the link can open them.