Beltrunner: Game Design Postmortem
A postmortem of Beltrunner, an original game built on the same engine as an arcade-faithful Asteroids remake. The author details design decisions: a countdown-based race with gates, deterministic seeded layouts, and a difficulty curve inspired by Nintendo. Power-ups are collectable tokens, and secrets reward attentive play. The system itself evolved to support the game, with lessons on what worked and what didn't.
Motion chaos is the fun engine; target arrangement is not.
- qezz
> the totally new way of making games
> it’s a lightweight game engine, interactive development environment, a language
The statement is very strong and catches my attention, but I didn't find any useful details about the game engine itself on its website [1]. It feels like it's a wrapper around raylib, which is very welcome, but it's definitely not some innovative way of game development
- Jabrov
My eyes glazed over the AI slop that is this article. What are you even trying to say?