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The Art of Indie Game Development: Lessons from Our First 4 Months
Reflecting on our journey as an indie game studio and the lessons we've learned along the way.
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October 16, 2025 • WBG Development Team
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Ghost Towers and Fragile Webs: Untangling a Sneaky Build-Radius Bug
How we debugged a phantom tower dependency bug that only appeared after a precise choreography of placements, and discovered that coverage-first thinking solved what graph theory couldn't.
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October 9, 2025 • WBG Development Team
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Wildermine Development Update: Creating Official Levels
An inside look at our level design philosophy for our upcoming puzzle game Wildermine.
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October 3, 2025 • WBG Development Team
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Wildermine Phase 3 Results: 432x Memory Reduction and 97% Code Cleanup
How delta-based history, renderer refactoring, and state management consolidation achieved 99.8% memory savings with zero regressions
Read More October 3, 2025 • WBG Development Team
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Wildermine Phase 4: Frontend & Backend Performance Optimization
Systematically addressing rendering hotspots, database queries, API parallelization, and idle CPU usage—one measurement at a time
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October 3, 2025 • WBG Development Team
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Measuring the JSON.stringify Performance Trap: Phase 4 Task 1 Baseline
Task 1 baseline measurements reveal 663 renders in 10 seconds and 20 MB of string garbage—confirming our hypothesis before the fix
Read More October 3, 2025 • WBG Development Team
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36% Memory Reduction: Phase 4 Task 1 Results
Replacing JSON.stringify() with stable array references eliminated 24.7 MB of peak memory growth and stabilized garbage collection patterns
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October 3, 2025 • WBG Development Team
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87% CPU Reduction: Phase 4 Task 4 Results
Fixing React useEffect dependencies and using refs instead of state reduced idle menu CPU usage from 480 RAF calls/sec to 61 calls/sec
Read More October 2, 2025 • WBG Development Team
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Wildermine Performance Breakthrough: 248x Faster Paint Operations
How implementing copy-on-write optimization reduced paint stroke latency by 99.6% and memory usage by 99.7%
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October 2, 2025 • WBG Development Team
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Wildermine Phase 3: The Big Refactor Begins
After achieving 248x performance gains in Phase 2, we're tackling the riskiest optimizations yet: viewport culling, delta-based history, and architectural improvements
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