Experiments in engine, systems, and iteration
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Currently on: Core loop, Data-driven content, Room generation
Five more passes (65 to 69): rings and an amulet with stats worth wearing, health you can read on your wrist, and Astra's mannequins standing in the armory with poses you buy and gear you can put on them. Rings and an am…
Four passes (70 to 73) to make rings and an amulet you can see, on the mannequins and on my own gauntlets, plus two revisions of Astra's mannequins. The tests kept passing on things that were wrong, and the headset kept …
Five headset passes (60 to 64) over a day. Small fixes to the hub first, then the start of something bigger: an equipment screen, so what you're wearing stops living in your backpack. Small things that were wrong The vau…
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.