Game Design Log

Designing and implementing the enemy AI for LGS — a two-layer system inspired by Alien: Isolation, with a global Director for pacing and persistence, and per-robot behavior built on a state machine with vision, confidence, and hearing.

Catching up after a long gap — wrapping last semester's deliverables, picking things back up this semester, and grappling with the slow reality of building something this big.

I've been heads-down designing the BFT system for Lamport General Systems, which turned out to be actual system design work—making it fun, realistic, and accessible all at once is harder than I expected.

Creating my pitch deck for the Capstone event forced me to make concrete decisions about vague ideas. The process of distilling my game concept revealed gaps in my design, particularly around the core loop, proving that presentation documents are more than just writing things down.

After letting ideas about distributed systems, Routine, and Alien percolate, I spent hours in stream-of-consciousness writing mode. The process of creating a concept document helped me reach a tipping point where everything clicked and now I'm obsessed with working on this project.