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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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EEI – Visual Clarity Improvements Part 1 – Reworking the HUD + Minimap

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

EEI – Visual Clarity Improvements Part 1 – Reworking the HUD + Minimap

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

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