ShapeShift Dev Blog

• Weekly post

  January 17, 2026

  Sound bug fixes, snapstep ability, wip netcode improvements for ability scheduling, wip damage indicators

• Weekly post

  January 10, 2026

  King of the Hill bug fixing, replay v2 system design, snapstep ability

• Weekly post

  December 31, 2025

  King of the Hill bug fixing, new replay v2 system design

• Weekly post

  November 22, 2025

  lighting2 system continued

• Weekly post

  November 15, 2025

  Unit tests, new resim method, new lighting2 system

• Weekly post

  November 8, 2025

  Preliminary playtest, King of the Hill development, replay file fixing

• Weekly post

  November 2, 2025

  King of the Hill progress, multiplayer state update bugs fixed

• Weekly post

  October 25, 2025

  King of the Hill game mode bug fixes, build system improvements, unit tests and basic modding API

• Screenshots

  October 20, 2025

  King of the Hill game mode: using input replay files to fix issues with obelisks becoming uncharged

• Update

  September 7, 2024

  Netcode, new copy animation

• Weekly post

  July 28, 2024

  Minor fixes, kanban setup

• Weekly post

  July 21, 2024

  Town and hotel progress, playtest

• Weekly post

  July 13, 2024

  Town level progress

• Weekly post

  July 6, 2024

  Visibility polygon-based lighting

• Weekly post

  June 29, 2024

  Shadertoy demo-inspired SDF lighting

• Weekly post

  June 22, 2024

  Working on Lua bindings

• Weekly post

  June 15, 2024

  Working on Lua bindings

• Weekly post

  June 8, 2024

  Town level, starting work on Lua bindings

• Weekly post

  June 2, 2024

  Town level

• Netcode, self playtest, and planning

  May 25, 2024

  Netcode serialization cross-platform fixes, self playtest, DRL planning

• Netcode progress

  May 18, 2024

  Event update replay wip, resimming wip, macOS wip

• Netcode AI events progress videos

  May 14, 2024

  Deterministic resim for enemy AI

• Netcode progress

  May 11, 2024

  Event updates wip

• Netcode progress videos

  May 6, 2024

  Deterministic resim for individual bodies wip

• Netcode progress

  April 22, 2024

  Joint resim wip

• Netcode progress

  April 21, 2024

  Deterministic resim for individual bodies (no joints yet) wip

• Crash fixed

  March 21, 2024

  Crash fixed, stencil rendering fixed, planning DRL, placement algorithm

• Minimap fixed

  March 16, 2024

• Minimap and music

  March 15, 2024

• Copy animation v3

  March 12, 2024