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EEI – Visual Clarity Improvements Part 1 – Reworking the HUD

A lot of the inspiration for Escape From Epstein Island comes from First Person Shooters. Many of the enemy behaviours, general level layouts, ...

theTDCAugust 7, 2026

GDev

EEI – Enemy Flanking and Herding, Part 2

Part one of this series covered my walled off experimentation with procedural enemy flanking behaviours. It was fun, interesting work, and at the ...

theTDCAugust 5, 2026

GDev

NMC Talk Recap, Part 1 – Grade AAA Opportunity

I’ve given talks at two Nationalist Media Conferences, the last about two months ago. In preparation, I wrote the equivalent of multiple articles ...

theTDCAugust 4, 2026

GDev

EEI – Proper Enemy Flanking and Herding, Part 1

Previously, I noted that there were two minds with respect to Boids. The first believes that they are an amazing form of procedural ...

theTDCJuly 30, 2026

GDev

EEI – Lighting Part Deux, Fixing Shadows

I’m quite proud of Escape From Epstein Island’s lighting solution. When entities are at some distance from the lights, the shadowing looks gorgeous. ...

theTDCJuly 28, 2026

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I Hate Modern Gaming Part 5 – Graverobbing

I haven’t owned a games console since the PS3/Xbox 360 era. That’s a little misleading, as I built a gaming PC back in ...

theTDCJuly 25, 2026

GDev

EEI – Boids, Part Deux

The last installment of the Boids series ended on a bit of a cliffhanger. After all, what kind of use could we possibly ...

theTDCJuly 23, 2026

GDev

EEI – Boids, Part One

Rather than burying the lede, let me show you the final result, and work back from there. Boids is a procedurally generated flocking ...

theTDCJuly 20, 2026

GDev

EEI – The Announcer (Finally)

I’ve been extremely critical of “AI”, really machine learning (ML), especially when it comes to image generation. I have yet to find any ...

theTDCJuly 19, 2026

GDev

EEI – Attract Mode and Arcade-Lite Design

I’ve never been all that nostalgic for the days of the arcades. Their financial model was sort of a pre-cursor to microtransactions, finding ...

theTDCJune 6, 2026

GDev

EEI – The Two Kinds of Humour in Games

Part of my previous presentation at the Nationalist Art Conference was about the limitations of humour in video games. I specifically used the ...

theTDCMay 21, 2026

GDev

EEI – No Guts, No Glory

In the last update I realized that I had no excuse for not implementing a lighting system into the game. Since then I ...

theTDCMay 9, 2026

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EEI – Visual Clarity Improvements Part 1 – Reworking the HUD

EEI – Enemy Flanking and Herding, Part 2

NMC Talk Recap, Part 1 – Grade AAA Opportunity

EEI – Proper Enemy Flanking and Herding, Part 1

EEI – Lighting Part Deux, Fixing Shadows

I Hate Modern Gaming Part 5 – Graverobbing

EEI – Boids, Part Deux

EEI – Boids, Part One

EEI – The Announcer (Finally)

EEI – Attract Mode and Arcade-Lite Design

EEI – The Two Kinds of Humour in Games

EEI – No Guts, No Glory

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