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Snaiper
Long-range sniper game. Long-range ballistics. Real wind, real drop, real flight time — every shot is a promise.
Crisp on impact.
Long aftertaste.
Aftercast is an independent game studio of one. I make games slowly, ship them in public, and write down what went wrong. Some are tactical, some strategic, some brainy, some purely crunchy — the only rule is that none of them get to bore you.
In this issue
The games, in order of readiness.
About
One person. Many games.
I'm Patrick. I make games on my own, slowly, and ship them in public. The genre changes; the intent doesn't. What ties everything together isn't a category — it's a refusal to let anything get stale. Every game here is one I'd want to play again myself, at 2am, for no reason at all.
- No ads inside gameplay. Ever.
- No dark patterns, no email wall before play.
- No account needed to play.
- Honest status labels — including "vs. bots".
- A public changelog, mistakes included.
Dispatches — The Log
All entries →Every change, dated. Mistakes included.
Phones: fullscreen comes back when you resume
Lock the screen or switch apps mid-round and the game dropped fullscreen, with no way back except quitting to the menu. Resume now asks for it again on the same tap. The Android "swipe to exit" banner still appears; that one belongs to the phone, not the game.
New Field Note: why every kill-cam replay looked the same
The old camera was technically showing the real bullet path. It just couldn't show the one thing that made it interesting.
Essays — Blog
All notes →What I learned, with numbers.
01
Why every kill-cam replay looked the same (and how we fixed it)
The old camera was technically showing the real, physically simulated bullet path. It just couldn't show the one thing that made it worth watching: the curve.
Engineering2 min
02A "perfect" shot only landed 43% of the time — at 30 fps
A bullet doesn't move in a straight line between two rendered frames. On a slow computer, that gap is exactly where a mathematically correct shot can go missing.
Engineering3 min
03Wind isn't a number. It's a field.
Most games hand you one wind value for the whole level and call it realistic. Here, the same shot from the same spot can land differently ten metres to the left — because the wind ten metres to the left is a different wind.
Physics2 min
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