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Boom needed new skins. I can't draw. SpriteSheetStudio now makes multiple animations and speaks the game's color palette.

Every character shipped as five hand-tuned color copies. I wanted more colors, so I deleted four-fifths of the art and recolor the rest at load.

I'm going on holiday, so I made the game playable on a phone — and made the bots stop blowing themselves up, so I'd have someone to play against.

Last time I smoothed the jank between the server's positions. This time I had to fix the lag between the server and the client — by predicting the future and reconciling with the past.

A PvE campaign mode. Four monster types. A boss that charges at you. And a whole trap system because apparently the bombs weren't enough.

Characters moved in visible jumps. Here's how we measured it, what we tried, and what actually worked.

We have a database. And accounts. And an economy. This is still a bomberman clone, I swear.

You can ride a pig now. Also turtles, spiders, and a Ctrl key that saves your life.

Multiplayer is live. Tiles push. Bombs land where you tell them. Play it at boom.nkh.do.

Real sprites! A map builder! A lobby with opinions! I'm practically a game developer now.

Tiles, bombs, bots that don't immediately suicide. Progress.

The blog has a projects section now. Because of course it does.

The obligatory first post. You know the drill.