Building the Inventory System
A new grid-based inventory brings soldier equipment slots, weapon management, item condition and persistent world drops to Protofodder.
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Dev Logs
The workshop record. What worked, what broke, what changed direction and what survived long enough to become part of the project.
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TRACEWAKE
TRACEWAKE Has a Front Door
A simple website build turned into a small exercise in making TRACEWAKE feel like TRACEWAKE before the player even launches the game.
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From Prototype to Two-Sided Cyber Operations
TRACEWAKE Dev Log #2 follows the project from its Blue Team prototype and private alpha into Aurelius, Ghostline, VIGIL, BLACKWIRE and a genuinely two-sided cyber-security campaign.
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Building a Cyber Security Game That Teaches Through Consequences
The first public look at the cyber project and the decision to teach through investigation, evidence, business impact and consequence instead of quiz mechanics.
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Open Rails
Developer Journal #2 | Apparently I Have Been Making Progress
North Grafton grows into a working railway, South Grafton emerges from historic plans, and a long-gone abattoir siding starts coming back to life in Open Rails.
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Developer Journal #1 | From an Empty Tile to the First Train
Taking the NSW North Coast Line from an empty route tile to the first working track and train, including reference-file headaches along the way.
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Prologue | Every Journey Starts Somewhere
The personal history behind the NSW North Coast Line project and why Grafton's railway landscape was worth rebuilding digitally.
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Studio
Rebuilding Wolf Interactive: Retiring WordPress Without Erasing the Trail
How Wolf Interactive moved from its original WordPress site to a custom static HTML/CSS/JS rebuild while preserving years of Dev Logs, tutorials, project history and legacy URLs.
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All apart of the process
A small slice of Wolf Interactive history: building and refining the studio splash-screen identity.
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Protofodder
Building the Inventory System
A new grid-based inventory brings soldier equipment slots, weapon management, item condition and persistent world drops to Protofodder.
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Devlog Update: Zombie Mechanics, Combat, and Player Animations
A Protofodder update covering zombie behaviour, combat development and player animation work.
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Unreal Engine Breakthrough: My Next Big Project Unveiled!
The moment Protofodder emerged as the next major Unreal Engine experiment, with early layouts and prototype work.
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Alpha RPG
The first big goals of development
Town layouts, shops, taverns, sewers, dialogue and codex work as the early RPG moved from planning into a playable world.
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This is but the beginning of something.
The earliest Alpha RPG planning, including the game design document, tavern sketches and first in-engine construction.
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