Devlogs

2025-10-20 - Project Fragmentation

Added Options autoload. Manages automatically saving and loading configuration values to user://options.cfg and emitting signals when any value changes
Added options_set and options_get commands for manually interacting with option values
Added options_dump to print all options in the config
Added options_save and options_reload to update values to and from file
Player mouse sensitivity now tracked as the input_mouse_sensitivity option. Command i_mouse_sensitivity now updates this option.
UI crosshair toggle now tracked as the gameplay_show_crosshair option. Command r_show_crosshair now updates this option.
Speedrun mode and Timetrial mode now disable all cheats, not just noclip.
Added a debug build only command force_cheats to reenable cheats when they wouldn’t otherwise be available.
Added ch_ prefix to all cheats other than noclip
Added ch_free_slide_boost, disables slide boost cooldown. (just for fun :3)
Updated both AudioMultiPlayer classes to support setting a specific bus
Added SoundFX and Ambience audio busses and configured all emitters to use one
Added audio_master_volume, audio_sfx_volume and audio_ambience_volume options.
Added AudioManager autoload, currently just responsible for setting the bus volumes based on their Option value
Added option for mouselook inverted y. Added input_mouse_invert_y option to set it.
Spent a bunch of time defining several UI widgets for a settings menu!
- Added BooleanSettingsWidget and FloatSettingsWidget for automatically reading and updating a setting
- Added SettingsSectionHeader for subtitles
GameManager now handles pausing and unpausing the game via escape. Pausing currently just displays settings.
Mouse capture code has now been moved to the GameManager

2025-10-19 - Project Fragmentation

Added Cooldown to automatically manage a timer that can be triggered and cancelled.
Added CooldownThresholdTrigger, for triggering one or more signals at specific points during a cooldown.
Fixed the bug with slide boost recharge not being interrupted by respawning by stripping out the old _execute_after_delay system with a Cooldown
Replaced the checkpoint zone sfx cooldown timer with a Cooldown

2025-10-18 - Project Fragmentation

Updated the original map to the new system of lightmap layers
Added time trial triggers to the original map
Forced respawn (from trigger_respawn) is now also deferred to GameManager
Hitting a respawn trigger in timetrial mode will now attempt to respawn you at the last checkpoint.
The default respawn/segmented run behaviour is now “Practice mode”. Added tt_practice to toggle practice mode. When practice mode is disabled, all respawns are replaced with return to start. This enforces that all runs are valid
Added r_show_crosshair. Toggles visibility of a 2px square in the center of the screen. Starts disabled
Hitting a force respawn in speedrun_mode now correctly restarts the level
Timetrial UI now shows the stored best time next to the current time
Fixed depth sorting on fogplanes so they now appear correctly behind checkpoint zones
Removed hardcoded player spawn for the original map, now uses an info_spawnpoint. Also rotated it to be slightly more forgiving
Added env_lightblocker. Uses very tiny lightmap size to still effect shadows and is manually hidden after bake via script. Once #96538 is fixed this won’t be necessary.
Added AudioMultiPlayer and AudioMultiPlayer3D. Automates playing sounds across cycling set of AudioStreamPlayers to get multi-sample polyphony.
Massive refactor of PlayerController.gd, reduced linecount by 50%
- Moved all sound related code out of PlayerController.gd into PlayerSoundManager.gd and switched to using the above mentioned AudioMultiPlayers. (Reduced PlayerController.gd by ~250 lines)
- Migrated all the state specific logic out of PlayerController.gd into PlayerAirState, PlayerSlideState, PlayerLedgeGrabState, etc. (Reduced PlayerController.gd by ~250 lines)

2025-10-17 - Project Fragmentation

Added info_spawnpoint.
trigger_timetrial_checkpoint now has a name and links up to two followup
Added trigger_timetrial_start. Almost identical to trigger_timetrial_checkpoint except green and triggers trigger_time_trial_start when the player leaves its Area3D.
Added PlayerStateSnapshot for stashing and restoring things about the player (position, speed, state, various cooldowns). Used to rewinding back to the moment the player reached a timetrial checkpoint
Slide Boost Reacharge prompt no longer plays if slideboost has already restored before the cooldown ran out
Respawn actions are now managed by the GameManager. Depending on input, Player will call either perform_short_respawn_action or perform_long_respawn_action. GameManager will then either defer back to Player for default behaviour, or intervene for speedrun or timetrial mode behaviour.
Added new timetrial_restart input, bound to “F”
Added most of the timetrial mode implementation!
- Split times are stored for each checkpoint. A set of “ephemeral splits” are stored for any run in progress, and on a completed run if the ephemeral times are better than the existing best run, the new times are used instead.
- Supports respawning at the last checkpoint, rolling back to the previous checkpoint, and restarting from scratch. Uses trackmania style splits (the run continues but won’t store a time if you respawn or roll back), useful for practicing.
- To avoid depth-test issues, only one set of timetrial volumes are shown at a time, reaching a checkpoint hides itself and reveals the next set of volumes, etc etc.
- UI scene now has TimeTrialUI to manage timetrial specific widgets.
- Added tt_clear_splits to manually clear splits without reloading.
- Each checkpoint gets its own split time, but histories are not currently differentiated by route (e.g. A -> B -> C and A -> D -> C both share the same time for C, despite route snot necessarily being the same length)
  - I’ll fix this in the future but its a low priority, linearity is fine for now and i don’t wanna burn more time on this system
- Splits are not saved right now, times reset on load. This will depend on me solving the routes issue.

2025-10-15 - Project Fragmentation

Added r_drawhud command for disabling the hud (for screenshots mostly)
Added trigger_timetrial_checkpoint as a brush entity definition so I can place them in trenchbroom.
- They don’t have any configuration yet, but they do correctly replace their material with the shader version
Figured out how to get the dual-layer material with a single mesh by using next_pass, the inner material with front culling has the outer material with back culling marked as the next pass
Created test_timetrial, which is just a corridor with two slightly different routes, to help me test the upcoming work for checkpoint times/splits and multiple routes

2025-10-15 - Website

Added devlogs to the website
Renamed posts to blog_posts

what if a bug had a website