How it is built

• 21 September 2026 · engineering

  A velocity write in _process cost me three weeks

  A 4x boost fired huge flames and added no speed at all. It looked like a tuning problem, so I tuned it, and nothing happened. The bug was which function the code ran in.

• 21 September 2026

  I thought the tutorial was fine. Then I watched someone play it

  They did not read a word, flew straight off into empty sky, and were right to. What is obvious to the person who built the game is obvious to nobody else.

• 21 September 2026 · spoilers

  The story arrives at level eighteen

  It began as a level pack with no plot at all. The fix was not to write a story into the levels, but to find the reading that made them evidence for one.

• 21 September 2026

  One kit, three worlds

  Three chapters that look nothing alike, built from the same ten hazard scripts. Why that is a design decision rather than a shortcut, and where it stops working.

More coming: what a fuel gauge does to a level that was designed without one, and why every level gets exactly one new idea.