Devlog
The systems, the measurements, and the times a number turned out to be wrong. Written as we go, including the parts that did not work.
No. 04
There was a stretch of the game with nothing meaningful to buy. Four different fillers were built and measured, and all four failed in exactly the same way — by making the run longer instead of fuller.
No. 03
A single corrupt value could destroy a save, and every safety net we had built failed at once — silently, and in a way that was invisible by reading the code.
No. 02
Pinch-to-zoom ran straight into a physical constraint rather than a taste question — crisp pixels and fluid scaling are, at the naive level, mutually exclusive. The fix was to stop treating it as one decision.
No. 01
A probe that plays the real simulation as a flawless player turned out to be the most useful thing in the repository, because it measures the one thing a developer cannot feel.