Second Chance devlog

Devlog

What was attempted, what broke, and what the fix turned out to be. Written for anyone building something similar.

2026-09-19

Ground That Isn't There

Animals falling to their deaths through streamed-out landscape in Unreal Engine 5.8,

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2026-09-18

The First Time Anybody Looked

A day of green numbers on the snooker club - 30,009 rules checks passed, 139 voice

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2026-09-17

Agreeing on the Wrong Answer

A frame of snooker that looked like a close game turned out to be two players

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2026-09-16

One Key for Everything

Three separate keys stopped working in one nine-minute playtest, for three

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2026-09-15

Two Kinds of Black

A Wollaton-style manor went from a scoped idea to a quay, a boathouse and a

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2026-09-14

The Probe Said It Was Open

A corner pocket that measured shut, a probe that fired off the table and called it

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2026-09-13

A Gap Down Each Side

A Sunday spent on a secret society. Fourteen men who drove themselves in, parked

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2026-09-12

Named for What It Wasn't

A Saturday that ran from a riverbed to a secret society. Landscape grass standing

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