#indiedev

Articles tagged with #indiedev

The First Playtest Is Live!
v0.1.0 of 'Pip Game' launched (still needs a proper name!)
Sep 13, 20262 min read
The Security Audit
TL;DR Added a security review gate to every release Focus on "what could this do to a stranger's PC?" Now a fixed step before every playtest build, not a one-off Thanks to spec-driven developmen
Sep 12, 20262 min read2
Grapple Physics Perfected
TL;DR The original grapple took 30mins, perfecting it took weeks The journey involved two physics systems and several adjustments AI wrote the code, but 'the feel' required a lot of human playtesti
Aug 7, 20263 min read
Everything just accelerated
TL;DR: In four days, most of a game's core systems went from nothing to shipped - and I think it's because of how I started splitting the work: Sonnet 5 planning out high level requirements, Opus 5 bu
Jul 31, 20262 min read3
... and then came Opus 5
TL;DR Just a few days after publishing my article on Fable, Opus 5 has launched with reports of Fable-like qualities I re-ran my experiment using Opus three times: v1 was unremarkable, similar to S
Jul 26, 20264 min read44
I tried Claude Fable, and now I don't know what to do...
TL;DR Fable built a playable, actually-fun version of my game in 30 minutes, vs three weeks working on the same concept with Sonnet. But was it really Fable, or was it due to a clean-slate and conci
Jul 20, 20266 min read135