The map does not stop when you close the tab
One shared country with no edge, running whether or not you are watching — and why that is a design decision rather than a technical boast.
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Dispatches
Development notes, world records, and news carried from across Koria.
Every item comes from somewhere
Hundreds of goods, and not one of them appears from a menu. A look at the production chains, why they back up rather than leak, and what…
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The buildings were architecture
They should have been industry. Eight concepts, and the one rule that fixes it.
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What a colour is for
Ore is the ochre of an outcrop. The rule that stops a palette becoming decoration.
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The ground was grey
Half of every pixel in the game sat under 19% saturation. Here is the measurement, and what it cost.
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Fog you can remember
What a colony can see and what it has been are two different facts, and only one of them is worth storing.
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The bar at the bottom
A top bar plus a sidebar was eating a fifth of the screen. Three games from three decades agree about the fix.
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A world that is found, not stored
Integer arithmetic, and why Math.sin would put an Extractor on grass in Safari only.
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Why the tile is 96×48
The art was being drawn 35% larger than it was cut. Two screenshots settled it.
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Nothing ticks
There is no cron job. There is a number, a timestamp and a rate, and that turns out to be the whole simulation.
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