Playable · v0.7.2Browser
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.
- 01SnaiperTactical sniper · BrowserPlayable · v0.7.2
- 02NiceBouncePrecision climber · BrowserPlayable · v0.10.0
- 03ClassifiedUnannounced
Playable · v0.10.0Browser
NiceBounce
One-thumb precision climber. The ball bounces by itself. You just steer it, land clean, and decide how far is far enough.
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.
New Field Note: a harder mountain couldn't beat a good player. A rising camera can.
Clearing the Summit no longer has to be where a run ends. Here's why the fix doesn't touch a single floor.
New Field Note: one run drafted 11,000 perks and ran the build out of memory
A card that could come back around seemed harmless, until a run lived long enough to prove it wasn't. The fix is one sentence.
Essays — Blog
All notes →What I learned, with numbers.
01
We tried to out-climb a good player with a harder mountain. It didn't work.
Clearing the Summit used to be where a run ended. Now a player can keep going — and the thing that finally stops a strong run isn't a steeper floor. It's the camera.
Design2 min
02A run that drafted 11,000 perks crashed the build before it crashed the player
The fix for a run that technically never ends usually isn't a bigger number. Sometimes it's refusing to offer the same card twice.
Engineering2 min
03RUSH was free speed. We had to make it cost something.
A climbing boost that only ever helps doesn't change how you play — it just makes the run shorter. The lever that fixed it wasn't the boost itself. It was how long a floor stays underfoot.
Design2 min
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