M3 Renderer + Entity milestone shipped! 🚀
• Triangle pipeline live
• DOO API over EnTT (12-byte wrappers)
• VulkanDevice logic ✅
• ECS systems + POD components
• 1025 assertions, CI mocks, cross-platform builds

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Rendering refactor complete! 🎮
• Clearer component names
• ECS-aware RenderSystem
• Shader build streamlined via CMake
• Game loop + entity setup cleaned up
• Camera + render tests solid ✅

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Triangle rendering ✅ Now wiring up ECS: Transform + Renderable + Camera components, EnTT-powered systems, and entity factories. Next: test coverage, hot-reload prep, and VPak asset pipeline. Modular, minimal, reproducible.

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✨ Our first game Vulkan Game window display! That moment when Bad Cat runs flawlessly on *both* Linux and Windows! 🐱🔥
One command: `./build.sh all all`
Five seconds of pure magic. Now onto Vulkan!

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High-level overview of the architectural design principles guiding the new game engine.

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Kicking off the morning with some #dysonsphereprogram on 10x difficulty to spark creativity. Next up, tackling the next milestone for our Bad Cat game engine.

M2: Platform layer (SDL2 window, Vulkan surface, Steam SDK integration)

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Just nailed the M1 Build System for Bad Cat: Void Frontier! 🚀 Set up CMake with cross-compilation, built Linux and Windows versions from WSL, implemented modular target selection, and streamlined intelligent DLL deployment.

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anything I am leaving out in our game engine?

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@samanthahoriz0n.bsky.social currently working on milestone 1 which is the basic Windows and Linux build system, which is about half done now.

Building Bad Cat: Void Frontier 🐱⚡ A 3rd-person action-adventure game with a custom Vulkan engine! Cat protagonist navigates escape rooms aboard a mysterious ark ship. #gamedev #vulkan #cpp #indiedev #catgame #badcat #badcatgame

@samanthahoriz0n.bsky.social quick something I've been toying with.