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Today the game got a voice. Not a cast, not dialogue trees: one calm, ethereal voice that speaks to you at a handful of moments in the fantasy half, and otherwise stays out of the way. This is how it went from an idea in…
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…
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…
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.
An action RPG for PC VR, built on what Experiment 1 has proven. No code yet: what it is meant to be, the three decisions so far, and the first slice.
On 11 September I read the license for the Unity Asset Store packs this game is built from, and stopped letting any AI look at them. This project is made almost entirely by agents, and a lot of what they do is measure ar…
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…
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 …