The 5 bugs I shipped last week — and what they taught me
Five real bugs from the last sprint. What they were, why they happened, what they cost, and what I'd do differently next time.
Why every faction has a weakness — design pillar for EFER
Seven factions. Every one has a weakness. This is a design pillar, not an accident. Here is the philosophy and the implementation.
Why the Convergence crystal is the only safe place in EFER
Convergence is the only realm where faction-on-faction PvP is disabled. This is the lore reason, the design reason, and the gameplay reason it stays neutral.
How the 30-day reset became the law of the world
The 30-day reset is the central design pillar of EFER. This is the in-universe lore of why the reset exists — and the meta-design of why it works.
What makes a faction stick — the design of faction identity
Seven factions in EFER. Twenty-two in the lore. Why seven, how each one feels different to play, and why no two factions collapse into the same archetype.
How a single bug taught me to write better Play tests
I shipped a feature that worked perfectly in Edit mode and broke silently in Play. Here is the postmortem.
I killed the ‘forever progression’ design. Here is why.
Six months ago I had a great idea for EFER: let players keep what they earned forever. Then I playtested it for two weeks.