godot
Neon Outlines from Edge Quads
With DET-33 out the door I started something small on the side: Detour 33, a racer set in the same city, built in Godot and C# and played on the Steam …
~ $ whoami
Nathaniel Inman. I make games and the tools that build them.
~ $ ls ~/games --released
DET-33steam · 2026 kepler452b2020 bulwarkweb coterieweb
~ $ ls -t ~/posts | wc -l
44
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roguelike
DET-33 Released
DET-33 is out on Steam for Windows and Linux, and it runs natively on the Steam Deck, which is what half of the rendering work on this blog was for. …
godot
2.5D: 2D Gameplay, 3D Rendering, 1000+ Enemies
I promised last time I’d write up the rendering trick that lets the Godot port of DET-33 push far more enemies than the JS version. Here it is, …
roguelike
Building a Modern Roguelike in 2026
I have a habit of writing one of these every few years. In 2017 it was a 7DRL experiment merging a roguelike with an FPS, and in 2019 it was ascii …
roguelike
Procedural Levels with Compass
I spent a good chunk of last year writing about compass, the map-generation library with all the fluvial generators and cellular caverns. The whole …
game dev
Stat-Agnostic Skills
After getting the bullet behaviors in DET-33 into a good place, the next system to crack was skills: the active abilities a player picks up as they …
game dev
Composable Bullet Behaviors
This fall I started building a new game: a bullet-hell roguelike called DET-33, built on Phaser 3 and Vue. It’s the kind of game where the whole …
generation
Composition Over Configuration in Compass
The individual generators in compass (the arroyos and rivers, the caverns and meanders) are the fun part to show off, but they aren’t what makes …
generation
Caverns, Automata and the Meander Revisited
Back in 2015 I tackled automata generated caverns for a 7DRL, and in 2018 I wrote up the meander algorithm for rivers. Both made it into compass and …
generation
Carving Terrain Like Water
A few years back I wrote a handful of posts about faking water on top-down maps: generating 2d rivers, cliffs, and an exhumed river channel. Those …