01 – I Aimed at Shipping Before I Knew How to Use the Engine
Call the Cat — devlog TL;DR: I had never opened a game engine. The first thing I decided wasn’t “finish the tutorials” — it was “ship it.” Because I had no skill,… Read entry →
Development notes
Tag: AI
A chronological record of shipping Call the Cat, rebuilding Galaxy in Unity, and learning what each decision costs.
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Every Launch, I Redrew the Same Table
Call the Cat — devlog TL;DR: Across four games I kept re-solving “how do I attach login, payment and save.” The words were the same every time; the actual thing behind each… Read entry →
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Galaxy18 – I Asked the AI to Weaken a Boss and It Only Lowered HP
I told an AI to make a boss weaker. It lowered the health value and the fight was still hard — because the feel was built by three values, and it changed… Read entry →
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Galaxy17 – The Map’s Star Showed Up as a Box on Windows Only
The same build drew a star on macOS and an empty box on Windows. The localization check passed — because the character was hardcoded in the code, outside the tables the check… Read entry →
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Galaxy16 – When It’s a Tie, the AI Won’t Decide Who Wins
A player collects everything before time runs out and the game still says “Failed” — because nobody ever decided which wins when two events land in the exact same frame. Why that’s… Read entry →
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Galaxy15 – The App Was 218MB, So I Measured the Art First
Told to shrink a 218MB Android build, the first move wasn’t compression — it was finding out which chunks were actually big. Why source-folder size and install size aren’t the same number,… Read entry →
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Galaxy14 – An Empty New Game Almost Overwrote Real Progress
Starting New Game on Steam begins with empty progress — but an empty save is still a save, and uploading it as-is can overwrite real progress that already exists on another device.… Read entry →
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Galaxy13 – 12 Languages, and the Fonts Had to Be Cut Down
Supporting 12 languages means 7,644 translation cells to track — but a passing translation table doesn’t guarantee the font actually has the character. Why glyph coverage, placeholder checks, and on-screen width have… Read entry →
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Galaxy12 – The Gamepad Only Works in Combat
Adding Steam controller support to a mobile-first game raised an obvious question: should the pad work on every screen? Combat and menus don’t mean the same thing by the same button —… Read entry →
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Galaxy11 – Porting Is Copying, Not Improving
It’s tempting to smooth out a rough edge while porting old code to a new engine. But if the goal is reproducing the original, anything not in the original is a separate… Read entry →