Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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I Can't Draw, So I Built Another Tool
Boom needed new skins. I can't draw. SpriteSheetStudio now makes multiple animations and speaks the game's color palette.
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Adding Team Colors Made My Game Smaller: Runtime Palette Swap
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.
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Boom clone devlogs #7: Mobile Controls & AI Fixes
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.
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The Other Half of the Lag: Client-Side Prediction in a Server-Authoritative Game
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.