#7: Back at the workstation
Resuming development after two weeks away from the computer.
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Progress on Vaelund, one week at a time.
#6: Procedural animations, world editor, and combat polish
Added procedural player animations to reduce asset load, re-evaluated world editor tools, used RenderDoc for performance optimization, and refined combat with the "Chief" mini-boss.
Read more →#5: Tick rate, entity refactor, and mob patrol
Reduced server tick rate from 20Hz to 10Hz, centralized entity position tracking, replaced wandering pathfinding with hardcoded patrol paths, and fixed a pile of combat and UI bugs.
Read more →#4: Domains, asset editor, and UI
Reorganized the codebase into gameplay domains, built an asset editor for layered sprites, and continued building out the UI.
Read more →#3: Cleaning up the codebase
Split the server code into focused modules and reduced draw calls from 350 to 5.
Read more →#2: Client rewrite, TCP, and staging server
Deleted the old client, wrote a new one from scratch, moved UDP to TCP, and got a staging server up for playtesting.
Read more →#1: AI in the workflow
We kept the server architecture modular. We designed the network to scale to 1000 players with low network load. We built a CLI for scripted testing.
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