Everything posted across every project, newest first.
Currently on: Core loop, Data-driven content, Room generation
Seven headset passes (39 to 45) over about a day, all about one idea: Nightfall should be dark enough that a light in your hand matters, and the dark should be hiding something. Here is what got built, what held up, and …
Five more headset passes (55 to 59). Four of them were about one small question, whether a whetstone should spark when you scrub it, and the last was the first build on the Quest itself in three weeks. The second half we…
Five headset passes (50 to 54) over two days, mostly about Nightfall: what you find in the dark, what lights it, and what it sounds like. Somewhere in the middle I started writing parts of the code myself. Here is what g…
The camera has been in the game for a while as a toy: point it at a creature, press the trigger, and it files a score. Over four headset passes (46 to 49) it turned into a system. Pictures teach you about what you photog…
Every swing speed in this game, and every tuning band built on one, was read by dividing a pose that moves at the headset's frame rate by a physics step that doesn't. I measured it before changing it: about three hits in four had the two clocks more than 25% apart. Combat now reads the rendered clock, and I prefer it. Every swing speed I've measured and published here was a physics-clock reading.
In one day Astra ran four read-only code reviews of older systems: combat, the run loop and saves, loot, and the backpack. Eighteen of the findings were real bugs, each checked against the code and then fixed with a test watched failing first. The suite had been green through all of them, because it tested the arithmetic and not the order things happen in.
A mission's attributes now change the run: Warband swaps skeletons for orcs, Nightfall puts the arena under a moon, and the long and short roads change how many rooms there are. They are meant as trade-offs, not as danger. Pass 36 wore all four.
Runs now start at a mission table in the hub: tokens dealt by an hourglass, carried by hand to a cradle, and a portal that sleeps until one wakes it. Holding a token properly took five passes, because the gauntlet's fingers had never been posed by anything they held.