I wanted the Options screen to list every key and button binding without anyone hand-building a single row. Getting there meant reading Unreal's input system back to itself — and the list it produced pointed straight at three bugs in my own controls. Every action the player can

Two posts ago I built pull requests for a team of one; last post, a gate that stops bad builds being approved. This week I found the hole on the other side of the pipeline: nothing stopped me doing the work in the wrong place to begin with. Twice. Quick

*Last post I built pull requests for a studio of one. What I didn't mention: clicking Approve never actually checked whether the code worked. Here's the gate I bolted on afterward — and the day it did its job on me.* In the last post I described

Our first blog post — and a grant application — said Deep Ice runs on OpenProject. It doesn't any more. Here's why I swapped it out, and why I then spent a week building code review for a studio with exactly one developer. In our first post, and

Deep Ice has proximity voice chat: when a squadmate speaks, a small indicator lights up on the comms panel so you can see who's talking. I'd just finished a round of polish on that system. I launched two clients, spoke into the mic, and… nothing. The

Looking back at the first months of EuropaHorror — and why not one line of game code was written until the pipeline that would build it already existed. In the first post I laid out what I'm building. This one's about what it's built on