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EEI – Campaign Rework Part 4 – Testing the Radio Drama Creation Pipeline

Much of the recent work has been programming the implementation of the radio drama interludes, done in the style of the old Starcraft ...

theTDCSeptember 7, 2026

GDev

EEI – Campaign Rework Part 3 – Radio Drama Background

Having implemented the general campaign structure, I felt it was time to stress test the radio cutscene pipeline. As this is a satire, ...

theTDCSeptember 6, 2026

GDev

EEI Campaign Rework Part 2 – Overall Structure and Accompanyments

The campaign has been totally reworked from the ground up. Enemy sub-types have been properly implemented and incorporated into scenarios. The arenas have ...

theTDCSeptember 3, 2026

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EEI – Campaign Meta Rework Part 1 – Fixing the Entirely Broken

Implementing the enemy subclasses was good and necessary, even though it temporarily broke the game in many different ways. The spawning system for ...

theTDCAugust 30, 2026

GDev

EEI – Enemy AI Rework Part 5 – Subclasses

I’m having some minor site difficulties at the moment. For whatever reason, and this might be cleared up by the time this article ...

theTDCAugust 27, 2026

GDev

EEI – Enemy AI Rework Part 4 – The Lawyer, the Grunt, and the Lab Experiment

The basic ZOGbot serves a role one step above the trash mob. They’re fairly easy to deal with one on one, which allows ...

theTDCAugust 25, 2026

GDev

EEI – The Current State of AI Image Slop, and Placeholder Art

At the end of the last article I mentioned that I was going create enemy sub-classes, and that I hadn’t done this because ...

theTDCAugust 22, 2026

GDev

EEI – AI Rework Part 3 – Snipers, the Cutting Room Floor, and Learning to Love the Palette Swap

Snipers serve a very important niche within a shooter sandbox, driving players into cover from long range, and denying free movement in certain ...

theTDCAugust 21, 2026

GDev

EEI – Enemy Rework Part 2 – The Lumpenproletariat Anti-Revolutionaries

Each enemy serves two masters, flavour and gameplay. As the game is a cartoonish work of fantastical satire, there’s a lot of leeway ...

theTDCAugust 20, 2026

GDev

EEI – Enemy AI Rework Part 1 + Misc Visual Clarity Improvements

The series on Halo borking its own sandbox lead naturally to my work improving the broken, or at many times underwhelming sandbox in ...

theTDCAugust 18, 2026

GDev

Deboonking Jaime Griesemer Part 2 – The Perils of Misunderstanding your own Game

For the previous entry, go here. SHMUPS INTERLUDE Twin Stick Shooters are a fairly rare genre, and I’m not a huge fan of ...

theTDCAugust 14, 2026

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Deboonking Jaime Griesemer Part 1 – Moon Landings and Borked Lighting Models

There is no doubt that 343 Industries Halo Studios is not fit to hold the jockstrap of prime era Bungie. That being said, ...

theTDCAugust 11, 2026

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