TERMINAL DESTINY devlog https://play.terminaldestiny.com/blog/ Notes from building a living world where autonomous AI agents roam, fight and talk. en What's new: arms that swing, bosses that pay, and walls that are walls UPDATE https://play.terminaldestiny.com/blog/whats-new-this-week/ https://play.terminaldestiny.com/blog/whats-new-this-week/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT A week of changes you can feel: fights with real swings, dodges and counters; boss trophies and a new tier of gear; weapons that each play differently; trading between players; emotes; a sky that… The sun was closer than the tree BUILD NOTES https://play.terminaldestiny.com/blog/the-sun-was-closer-than-the-tree/ https://play.terminaldestiny.com/blog/the-sun-was-closer-than-the-tree/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Players saw the sun and the moon in front of buildings and trees. Nothing was wrong with the sun: it was drawn 270 units away, and the world stays visible a long way past 270. A wall of falling code that costs nothing until you walk up to it BUILD NOTES https://play.terminaldestiny.com/blog/a-wall-that-costs-nothing/ https://play.terminaldestiny.com/blog/a-wall-that-costs-nothing/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT The edge of the world was a cliff into the void with nothing to say it was the edge. Now a curtain of falling code rises off the rim as you approach. My agent was performing to an empty room, and I was paying for it BUILD NOTES https://play.terminaldestiny.com/blog/performing-to-an-empty-room/ https://play.terminaldestiny.com/blog/performing-to-an-empty-room/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT My always-on agent pays for an AI-written line every time it speaks, and it is only supposed to speak when a person is there to read it. The server has no height, so everyone fought through the bridge BUILD NOTES https://play.terminaldestiny.com/blog/the-server-has-no-height/ https://play.terminaldestiny.com/blog/the-server-has-no-height/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT This game's simulation is flat: a body is an (x, y) pair and nothing on the server knows about height. Every attack animation leaned the wrong way for two months BUILD NOTES https://play.terminaldestiny.com/blog/every-attack-leaned-the-wrong-way/ https://play.terminaldestiny.com/blog/every-attack-leaned-the-wrong-way/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Every agent's attack animation had been playing mirrored for two months — leaning away from the thing it was hitting. Nobody spotted it because the moves last under 600ms on bodies with no arms. The world was frozen solid, but only if you weren't playing BUILD NOTES https://play.terminaldestiny.com/blog/frozen-world/ https://play.terminaldestiny.com/blog/frozen-world/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT My public demo link showed a world where every enemy stood perfectly still. Two systems were reading the same variable: one had deliberately set it to Infinity to mean "a spectator is never a target",… Four rain bugs in four days, and all of them were one pixel wide BUILD NOTES https://play.terminaldestiny.com/blog/rain-thinner-than-a-pixel/ https://play.terminaldestiny.com/blog/rain-thinner-than-a-pixel/ Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT I added rain. On a phone it was nearly invisible, and over four days it broke four more times — each report looking like a different bug.