Tag: boom-clone

All the articles with the tag "boom-clone".

• Boom clone devlogs #7: Mobile Controls & AI Fixes

  12 Jun, 2026

  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.

• The Other Half of the Lag: Client-Side Prediction in a Server-Authoritative Game

  6 Jun, 2026

  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.

• Boom clone devlogs #6: Monsters & Traps

  6 Jun, 2026

  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.

• 12.8 Pixels of Jank: Smoothing Movement in a Server-Authoritative Game

  30 May, 2026

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