Warren Devlog

• February 7, 2026

  Day 19: LibPureFiction Is Dead, Long Live Warren

  Renaming the entire framework from LibPureFiction to Warren — 232 files across two repos, one website, and zero backwards compatibility shims.

• January 30, 2026

  Day 18: Modular Building Shells

  Automating the generation of complete architectural shells from room definitions — walls, floors, ceilings, and shared wall resolution.

• January 29, 2026

  Day 17: The Resolver Pattern

  Building a generic resolution system for geometry classes, and testing it with a complete modular house layout.

• January 28, 2026

  Day 16: Building a Cathedral

  Adding rotation to the geometry system and stress-testing it by building the Lichtervelde Cathedral with CSG boolean operations.

• January 27, 2026

  Day 15: Declarative Geometry

  Three iterations on a geometry definition system in one day — from MapLayout to GeometrySpec to Factory — each one simpler than the last.

• January 26, 2026

  Day 14: Orchestrator Composition and Beam Weapons

  Fixing a startup race condition with two-phase initialization, adding power storage for weapons, and composing orchestrators hierarchically.

• January 25, 2026

  Day 13: The Great Privacy Refactor

  Converting every component to closure-based privacy, adding weapon systems, and rebuilding demos — the biggest single-day refactor yet.

• January 14, 2026

  Day 12: The Turret System (and Learning When to Rewrite)

  Building a complete turret system from composed components, scrapping a monolithic Projectile, and discovering that signals solve everything.

• January 13, 2026

  Day 11: Framework v2 Begins

  Starting a ground-up rewrite of the component system with proper node architecture, registries, and filter-based queries.

• January 10, 2026

  Day 10: Waves and Architecture Cleanup

  Adding wave-based spawning with difficulty scaling, a central Router for NPC behavior, and a major project structure refactor.

• January 9, 2026

  Day 9: Screen Transitions, Cameras, and Invisible NPCs

  Adding cinematic polish with screen transitions and an isometric camera, plus solving a maddening invisible NPC bug.

• January 8, 2026

  Day 8: Input Focus and Modal Windows

  Refactoring input handling to support modal UI, plus a unified styling system that covers both GUI elements and 3D parts.

• January 6, 2026

  Day 7: Run Modes and Tutorials

  Adding game modes, a tutorial system, and dealing with the consequences of a GUI layout system that's too clever for its own good.

• December 30, 2025

  Day 6: Building a CSS-Like GUI System

  We built a complete code-driven GUI system with CSS-like styling, responsive layouts, pseudo-classes, and migrated every UI element to use it.

• December 29, 2025

  Day 5: The Stage-Wait Boot System

  Solving initialization ordering once and for all with a phased boot system that replaced scattered race condition fixes.

• December 28, 2025

  Day 4: Bug Hunting in Production

  Fixing duplicate script execution, destroyed instance errors, and adding a notification ticker — all bugs that only appear in published games.

• December 27, 2025

  Day 3: Marshmallows, Backpacks, and Production Bugs

  Adding real gameplay feel with tool mounting, HUD indicators, and immediately hitting our first production race condition.

• December 26, 2025

  Day 2: Building the Game Loop

  The Orchestrator, GlobalTimer, and LeaderBoard come together to form the first complete game loop.

• December 25, 2025

  Day 1: A Christmas Bootstrap

  The framework gets its first real architecture — a self-bootstrapping System, Rojo sync, and the first gameplay assets.