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Building games for the web: rendering, levels, assets and sound. 5 posts, newest first.
Hundreds of Draw Calls Down to a Handful with BatchedMesh
7 min read
How Typo's Voyage draws every tile and every 3D letter through four three.js BatchedMeshes, poses a whole treadmill on the GPU with one vec4 a frame, and what breaks when you move instances in the vertex shader.
Your Shader Stutter Happens at First Draw
8 min read
A three.js hitch the first time an effect appears is usually a WebGL program link. It blocks at the first draw, not at compile, and a warm-up only fixes it if it links the same program variant your frames use.
Roll It Has No Outline Pass
9 min read
The ink lines in Roll It aren't a post-process. Each material finds its own edges: the median of three distances on a box, crease barycentrics on a mesh, and a view-angle band on the ball.
Soundscapes for Web Games: A Pluggable Howler Implementation, Part 2
13 min read
The soundscape engine is one class under a hundred lines. A six-function adapter is the seam.
Soundscapes for Web Games: The Layer Beneath Your SFX, Part 1
8 min read
Most web games go silent the moment the player stops moving. A soundscape is the quiet layer underneath your SFX that keeps the room alive.