rendering performance tooling
Buildable Highlight Strings, Be Gone
We cached highlight coords and culled by viewport so buildable overlays stopped splitting "x,y" strings every frame.
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November 10, 2025 • WBG Perf Team
rendering performance
Taming BuildingRenderer’s Per-Frame Churn
We memoized the building render list and swapped per-item scans for a destruction lookup set, turning O(n log n + n·m) churn into simple cached draws.
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November 10, 2025 • WBG Perf Team
rendering performance
Three Quick Wins for the Overlay Stack
Grid overlays, brush previews, and wood assets each stopped redoing the same per-frame work thanks to offscreen caches and WeakMaps.
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November 9, 2025 • WBG Perf Team
rendering performance
Bridges Without the Quadratic Tax
We split the z-order pass into bridge and building buckets so the renderer only compares objects that can actually overlap, killing an O(B × n) hotspot.
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November 9, 2025 • WBG Perf Team
rendering performance
Shaving Millions of Tile Lookups Off The Eraser Overlay
We turned the eraser overlay's O(rows × cols) hover scan into a constant-time doodad lookup by caching footprints and sampling only nearby anchors.
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November 9, 2025 • WBG Perf Team
tools performance
Why Our Ghost Collision Checks Were Melting the Frame Budget
We replaced an O(placements × footprint²) collision pass with a memoized occupancy index so ghost previews cost only their own footprint, not the whole map.
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October 20, 2025 • Wrinkled Brain Games Team
indie-dev lessons-learned
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
wildermine technical
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
wildermine development
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
wildermine performance
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
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November 9, 2025•WBG Perf Team
Buildable Highlight Strings, Be Gone
We cached highlight coords and culled by viewport so buildable overlays stopped splitting "x,y" strings every frame.
renderingperformance
November 9, 2025•WBG Perf Team
Taming BuildingRenderer’s Per-Frame Churn
We memoized the building render list and swapped per-item scans for a destruction lookup set, turning O(n log n + n·m) churn into simple cached draws.
renderingperformance
November 9, 2025•WBG Perf Team
Three Quick Wins for the Overlay Stack
Grid overlays, brush previews, and wood assets each stopped redoing the same per-frame work thanks to offscreen caches and WeakMaps.
renderingperformance
November 8, 2025•WBG Perf Team
Bridges Without the Quadratic Tax
We split the z-order pass into bridge and building buckets so the renderer only compares objects that can actually overlap, killing an O(B × n) hotspot.
renderingperformance
November 8, 2025•WBG Perf Team
Shaving Millions of Tile Lookups Off The Eraser Overlay
We turned the eraser overlay's O(rows × cols) hover scan into a constant-time doodad lookup by caching footprints and sampling only nearby anchors.
renderingperformance
November 8, 2025•WBG Perf Team
Why Our Ghost Collision Checks Were Melting the Frame Budget
We replaced an O(placements × footprint²) collision pass with a memoized occupancy index so ghost previews cost only their own footprint, not the whole map.
toolsperformance