Experiments in engine, systems, and iteration
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Currently on: Core loop, Data-driven content, Room generation
On 29 August we added two small files to the harness folder. .watchdog/hubprogress.json and .watchdog/itemvault.json replaced the Editor's save with a fixed one: 120 coin, eight items in the vault, no upgrades bought. Th…
In pass 23 I opened two loot chests, and both paid a Charm of Reach. That could have been luck. But the roster has six items, so two in a row is about a one-in-six event, and something that small is exactly what gets wav…
Since August, the one thing in combat that paid for effort was the committed hit. Swing fast enough and wide enough at the moment of contact, and the blow did 1.5× damage with its own spark and sound. When I last wrote a…
The bench in the hub lets you put gems into a weapon. Getting them back out is a pry bar: you hold it near a socket, pay to have the gem removed, and then work the tip around the socket's rim while levering, three arcs, …
For four evenings I told Claude that my vault was mostly empty and would not take a war hammer. For four evenings it explained to me why I was wrong. It was a different explanation each time, each one plausible, and all …
Two bolts in tonight's session logged this: I was standing in a corridor about six meters long. The bolt did not travel five hundred meters. It traveled nothing at all — it was born inside the floor and died there on it…
For about two weeks, three props in my hub looked wrong. Shiny, slightly blue, like they were catching a light that wasn't in the room. Everything else in the game is flat and matte. These weren't. I fixed it nine times.…
Three props in my hub looked wrong. Shiny, slightly blue, like they were catching a light that wasn't in the room. Everything else in the game has a flat matte look; these didn't. I fixed it four times. First the metalli…