Devlog

Washoi devlog

From a plant in a pot to an arena shooter in your browser. This is how Washiki Washoi! got built, one release at a time.

Chapter 3 · Feb – Mar 2026

Multiplayer at 125 Hz

The whole simulation moved to 125 Hz and the weapons moved to the server. Matches gained awards, a spectator camera and demo playback.

v0.9.0

NetcodeFebruary 15, 2026

The Whole Simulation Moved to 125Hz

Three layers, deterministic ticks, server authority with client prediction, MessagePack over WebTransport — and reconciliation error that went to zero.

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v0.9.1

WeaponsFebruary 17, 2026

Eight Weapons, Off By About Twenty-Four Bits

All eight Warsow weapons with ammo entities and projectiles, a two-slot inventory, and a KTX1 decoder whose bit offsets were wrong.

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v0.9.2

NetcodeFebruary 18, 2026

Reliable On One Lane, Unreliable On The Other

WebTransport split into unidirectional streams and datagrams, snapshot rate decoupled from tick rate, and an NTP-style clock sync with outlier rejection.

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v0.9.3

NetcodeFebruary 19, 2026

The Server Started Throwing Grenades

Projectiles are created and simulated entirely on the server, snapshotted as entities, and delta-compressed into half the size.

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v0.9.4

GameplayFebruary 20, 2026

The Corpse Goes Where You Were Shot

Overkill gibs with object pooling, a death camera bound to the ragdoll, dropped weapons with ammo, and a cvar fallback that was six times too strong.

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v0.9.5

WeaponsFebruary 22, 2026

Eighteen Pellets Instead of Twenty

Riotgun spread doubled and pellet count cut so the round count survives rounding, dropped weapons that settle on the real BSP floor, and server-side PVS.

A HUD That Fits in Nine Anchor Zones

A 2400-line HUD rewrite around a 1800-line stylesheet, ten weapon slots down the left edge, and roughly 150 console.log calls deleted.

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v0.9.7

AudioFebruary 24, 2026

Three Playlists and a UUID

Team gametypes, the soundtrack streamed out of a PK3 with menu/game/endgame playlists, freefly spectator, and a player profile with a UUID v4.

Somebody Else's Animation, 300 Milliseconds Late

Cloned remote player models with an animation state machine, three delta-encoding bugs fixed, and crouch carried over the wire.

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v0.9.9

WeaponsMarch 17, 2026

The Blade, the Ragdoll, and 3,900 Deleted Lines

A charged blade projectile, per-weapon speed modifiers, a ragdoll death system, team colours, and a weapon model system rewritten from scratch.

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v0.9.10

NetcodeMarch 18, 2026

Bots Getting Twice The Gravity

A bitmask protocol bug hiding every remote crouch, split Y offsets for crouch models, and a double simulate() giving bots 2x gravity.

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v0.9.11

GameplayMarch 23, 2026

Awards, a Spectator Camera, and a Demo Player

Server-authoritative awards, directional damage indicators, framerate-independent physics, a chase camera, and gzip-aware demo playback at up to 4x speed.

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