NoSprite

Journal

Devlog, code essays, accessibility writing, and behind-the-scenes from building NoSprite. Long-form thinking; not a feed. First articles landing soon.

Where we are

Rift Drifter just shipped. The studio is four weeks old. The first proper journal entries are in draft. A post-mortem of the five-week sprint comes first. Until articles land here, the shipping notes and shorter thoughts go out via the studio's socials.

See the Timeline for the chronological story so far.

Coming up

What's being written

  1. Post-mortem

    Drafting

    Building Rift Drifter in five weeks

    Blank editor to App Store. How an afternoon Canvas experiment became a four-platform launch in 35 days. What worked, what almost broke, what the AI-augmented workflow actually looks like in practice.

  2. Philosophy

    Soon

    Why code-only graphics?

    No image files, no audio files, no pre-made assets. Every visual is geometry; every sound is synthesis. The argument isn't aesthetic. It's about instant load, infinite resolution, and accessibility you get for free when the palette is a variable.

  3. Practice

    Soon

    Accessibility from the foundation

    Reduced motion, high contrast, large HUD, configurable touch sizes, orientation lock. The choices that get harder to retrofit and easier to design in. What it looks like when a11y is a brand pillar instead of a launch-day checklist.

  4. Process

    Later

    The AI-augmented solo workflow

    Honest take. What pairing with an LLM actually accelerates (and what it doesn't). How the studio's commit cadence, code review, and decision-making changes when there's always a second voice in the room.

  5. Lab notes

    Later

    Iron Clash: rendering a wireframe world

    First-person vector rendering in the browser, in the spirit of Battle Zone (1980). Camera math, hidden-line removal, procedural terrain. The techniques behind the drivable dev build.

How the Journal works

Articles ship when they're done, not on a calendar. Drafts sometimes turn into something shorter and end up on Bluesky instead. That's a feature, not a bug. The Journal is for the ideas that need room.

No newsletter (yet). The home page has a "notify me" form for launch emails; that's where major beats go. Everything else lives here or on the socials.