Earned, but too rare
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…
Incoming Transmission
Everything posted across every project, newest first.
47entries
27systems tracked
46%overall
Currently on: Core loop, Data-driven content, Room generation
Filtered by tag “vr”. Clear
A zero that looked like five hundred meters
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…
Seven things that looked like success
I set out to measure what one particle effect cost. Twelve hours later I have a walkable game. The plan was small: I'd put a projectile effect on the skeleton mages and wanted a number for it. That means a device build a…
A correct save of the wrong object
Six times into the headset today, all of it on the run loop rather than on how anything looks. The short version is that a run can now be survived, and what you carry home is kept somewhere you can see it and take it bac…
The band that was switched off, twice
I spent a long session building the economy — coin that drops and banks, a fountain that sells health, items you carry and lose — and the thing I'll actually remember is a mistake I made twice, in the same file, about tw…
Nine passes on one sound
I spent nine trips into the headset today on the sound a sword makes when it hits a skeleton. That is an absurd number, and almost none of it was the sound. It was me asking the wrong question, nine different ways, and s…
Everything agreed with itself
The run has a beginning now. You start in a stone room, walk to an arch, press A, and the screen digitizes into the clearing with the first room dealt. That is the whole of it, and it took most of a night, but almost non…
Six things I could only find by looking
I spent a day putting the headset on, looking at the clearing, and writing down what was wrong. Six defects came out of it. Not one of them could have been found any other way, and that's the part worth writing up. What …