❌stable
❌memory safe
❌predictable
❌portable
❌safe
❌tested
❌planning
❌error handling

✅memory leaks
✅undefined behavior
✅works on my machine
✅segmentation faults
✅printf, the only debugger
✅improvisation
✅runtime errors
✅ignoring compiler warnings
✅fatal error: too many errors emitted, stopping now

some of it is sarcasm, some of it is true!

" > " = where i am in that category,
" >> " = something im currently focusing on,
anything above it means i already went through it,
anything below it means i am planning to look into it

engine/framework/language

  Unity, raw HTML/JS, Unreal, Godot, Monogame, Raylib, Bevy, SDL, Roblox Studio
> staying with SDL2, C++
  might try at some point: Vulkan, DirectX, SFML, GameMaker, GDevelop

tooling

  Git - Github
  Cmake
  Emscripten - WASM
> Lua
  Tracy profiler

networking

  basic client/server project
  tried raw UDP
  decided to stay with TCP
  sent spatially partitioned entity component data
> better dirty ecs component tracking to send only changes
  grid based server-side fog of war
  VPS?
  UDP again?

ecs

  entt
  serializable ECS components for networking/saving
  spatially partitioned collision detection with swept box cast
> linear and angular velocity
  more types of colliders, tilemap collider, SDF colliders?

rendering

  OpenGL/GLEW within SDL
  tried compute shaders, but will use webGL
  not using buffers as i should, but rather textures for everything (not ideal)
  single shader for everything (also not ideal)
  no separate thread (TPS = FPS)
  custom text rendering
  update/render thread separation + sub-tick interpolation
  using vertices and indices more, for visibility order
  frame buffer understanding, making graphics editor
  tiny C-like language into wasm
  VFX editor
>>WebGPU?

audio

  audio callback
> spectrogram
  OpenAL
  audio synthesis

progress updated February 18, 2026

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