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YouTube video by MrPhil's Avatar Stellar Throne Devlog #10 — From Bugs to Breakthroughs

Stellar Throne Devlog #10
Huge progress this week — multi-hop fleets fixed, events restored, research rebuilt, and the new construction system running in Zig. 14% parity complete and climbing!
youtu.be/Y5FTXOfLmfc
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Stellar Throne Devlog #10 — From Bug Fixes to Breakthroughs Yesterday marked a massive surge of progress on Stellar Throne, my 4X strategy game. For those new to the project, Stellar Throne is built with Godot (or “go-DOH”) for the UI client and Zig for the...

Stellar Throne Devlog #10
Massive progress on the Zig backend — multi-hop fleets, event triggers, research parity, and the new construction system are all online.
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#gamedev #StellarThrone #indiedev #zig #godot #4X

YouTube video by MrPhil's Avatar Stellar Throne Devlog #9

🚀 Stellar Throne Devlog #9
Tuesday’s update focused on fixing visual parity between Godot & Zig - stars rendering wrong, planets losing orbits, and fleets dropping ship data.
Watch the full devlog: youtu.be/dD2O9wq1E1A
#gamedev #StellarThrone #indiedev #Godot #Zig #4X #devlog

Stellar Throne Devlog #9: Visual Parity and Data Preservation Tuesday was a critical follow-up to Monday’s validation milestone for Stellar Throne, my 4X strategy game built with Godot for the UI client and Zig for the high-performance simulation engine. ...

The math was right — but the visuals were wrong.
Tuesday’s devlog dives into fixing color-wrong stars, orbit-reset planets, and disappearing fleet names in Stellar Throne’sdual-engine setup (Godot + Zig).
Performance is great. Now it looks right, too.
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YouTube video by MrPhil's Avatar Stellar Throne Devlog #8

Stellar Throne Devlog #8
This update dives deep into validation, serialization parity, and floating-point precision — ensuring the Zig + Godot dual-engine stays perfectly in sync.
youtu.be/O4HvuNeOjqM
#gamedev #indiedev #StellarThrone #Godot #Zig #4X

Stellar Throne Devlog #8: Validation, Parity, and Precision Monday was a critical day of validation and bug hunting for Stellar Throne, my 4X strategy game built with Godot for the UI client and Zig for the high-performance simulation engine. After enabling...

🚀 Stellar Throne Devlog #8
This update dives deep into validation, serialization parity, and floating-point precision — ensuring the Zig + Godot dual-engine stays perfectly in sync. blog.mrphilgames.com/stellar-thro...
#gamedev #indiedev #StellarThrone #Godot #Zig #4X

🚀 Stellar Throne Devlog #7: The Zig Simulation Goes Live Hey everyone, Mister Phil here with another devlog update! Today marks a major milestone for Stellar Throne, my sci-fi 4X strategy game. For those just joining: Stellar Throne runs on...

Stellar Throne Devlog #7
The Zig simulation backend is now running in production — delivering a 52× performance boost.
Serialization fixed, colors preserved, fleets stable, and the game now flies.
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#GameDev #IndieDev #ZigLang #GodotEngine #StellarThrone

Stellar Throne Devlog #6 — Zig Parity and Production Deployment Hey everyone, MrPhil here with another devlog update! Today marks a critical production deployment milestone for Stellar Throne, my 4X strategy game set in a post-empire galaxy. For those new...

Zig Parity and Production Deployment blog.mrphilgames.com/stellar-thro...

🚀 Stellar Throne Devlog — The Engine Overhaul: 52× Faster Simulation Three months, two engines, and one massive speed boost. The new Zig simulation core makes Stellar Throne’s galaxies run faster than ever — and lays the foundation for modding, and balance

🚀 Stellar Throne Newsletter — The Engine Overhaul: 52× Faster Simulation open.substack.com/pub/mrphilga...

Stellar Throne Devlog #5 — All 21 Zig Simulation Phases Implemented + Parity Tester Online (52.7× Faster) Hey everyone — MrPhil here with a major development update for Stellar Throne, my sci-fi 4X strategy game. This week I finished implementing all 21 simulation phases in Zig and brought the parity...

🚀 Stellar Throne just leveled up!
Zig simulation engine: ✅ 21 phases complete
TOML data: ✅ integrated
Parity tester: ✅ online
Speed boost: ⚡ 52.7× faster than Godot
Read the full devlog → blog.mrphilgames.com/stellar-thro...

Stellar Throne DEVLOG #4 — The Great Migration: GDScript to Zig Complete 🚀 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 🧠 Win • Challenge • Next Win: The Godot → Zig port reached a huge milestone — gdzig is running smoothly and the simulation...

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🚀 Stellar Throne update: revamped ground combat (strength bars, invasion flow, cleaner fleet UI), draggable panels, shader-based territory borders & more polish across the board.
Meanwhile, reflecting on focus & maybe pursuing a publisher.
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🚀 New in Stellar Throne: Orbital Bombardment, Ground Invasion, a redesigned Ground Combat UI, smoother battles, & tons of fixes. Crush enemy worlds in style.
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Spent days wrestling with a “simple” combat UI bug. Tried every AI trick I knew—outside consultants, zookeepers, conspiracy diagrams… nothing worked.
Then one last attempt, no magic prompt—just luck of the dice.
#gamedev #indiedev #Godot
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Bombardment, Ground Combat, and a Whole Lot of Bugs | Stellar Throne & ClaudeCraft by MrPhil Get more from Stellar Throne & ClaudeCraft by MrPhil on Patreon

Integrated Bombardment & Ground Combat into Stellar Throne today!
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The Bug That Refuses to Die | Stellar Throne & ClaudeCraft by MrPhil Get more from Stellar Throne & ClaudeCraft by MrPhil on Patreon

Been stuck on the same bug for days.
Claude can’t fix it, no matter how I prompt.
Ships are destroyed in combat, but the UI doesn’t mark them as destroyed until the next turn.
Tried every trick in the book — even the “you’re a zookeeper” prompt. 🛠️😤

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Tactical Bugs & Teaching Breakthroughs | Stellar Throne & ClaudeCraft by MrPhil Get more from Stellar Throne & ClaudeCraft by MrPhil on Patreon

Today’s build log:
Stellar Throne’s combat got major bug fixes (no more ships sharing a grid cell 🙌)
ClaudeCraft’s Module 1 is broken into “index card” lessons + slide deck started
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🎮 With AI, artists & designers can turn ideas into playable worlds—fast.

That’s why I’m building ClaudeCraft:
💡 Empower non-coders
🎨 Help creatives follow their dreams
🤖 Explore Agentic Game Dev
🚀 Prepare for the AI creative future
📖 Read “Why” →
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🪐 Stellar Throne — wrangled Combat UI bugs, rogue scroll events, and phantom ship damage.
🎓 ClaudeCraft — refined the course, added a module, built a roadmap… but now thinking hard about how to reach the right audience.
#gamedev #indiedev #AI
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Fixed a nasty Combat UI bug in Stellar Throne that hijacked battlefield zoom when scrolling the combat log — required a full screen infra redesign 😅. Also made big moves on ClaudeCraft: course plan, site, & teaching guides for 7/10 modules. 🚀
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🎮 Ever wanted to make a game but don’t know how to code?
I’m building a course that shows you how to design and develop your own game — using Claude as your AI coding partner.

✨ No programming required.

👉 Join the waitlist: ClaudeCraft.com

#gamedev #ai #ClaudeCraft

Patching Up Combat and Building Better Testing Tools Today was a deep dive into two critical fronts: refining the Combat UI and strengthening the testing pipeline. On the combat side, I addressed several issues in turn flow, UI behavior, and ship...

Combat UI cleanup in progress:
⚔️ Turns not advancing
🚫 Only defenders fire
🧪 GUT throwing editor errors
🧠 Built new dev & QC agents
🧰 Designing Zig-based test harness to catch exploits + balance issues
#gamedev #godot #4xstrategy #aiworkflow
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GitHub - ee0pdt/Godot-MCP: An MCP for Godot that lets you create and edit games in the Godot game engine with tools like Claude An MCP for Godot that lets you create and edit games in the Godot game engine with tools like Claude - ee0pdt/Godot-MCP

There is an MCP for Claude: github.com/ee0pdt/Godot... I don't use it but it might be what you are looking for.

I'm not use a plug-in but I did so some command line setup so Claude can run Godot headless. Did I say "inside" if so that was misleading, sorry.

Big update today!
🚀 Ported unit tests to Godot’s GUT framework
🛠️ Audited for Opus 4.1 compatibility
⚔️ Designed and implemented a brand new Combat UI
Testing is cleaner, combat is sharper, and things are speeding up.
#gamedev #godot #indiedev
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Just upgraded to Godot 4.3 + Claude Opus 4.1 🚀 Solid improvements across the board. Combat UI debugging continues as I chase full feature parity for Stellar Throne. #gamedev #GodotEngine #solodev
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🎮 Why I’m Switching Stellar Throne to Godot — And How I’m Making It Work From low-level power to high-level polish — how a week-long experiment with Godot reshaped my AI-assisted workflow on Stellar Throne.

This weeks Newsletter: 🎮 Why I’m Switching Stellar Throne to Godot — And How I’m Making It Work
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Squashed bugs, revived combat, smoothed out the galaxy generator, and restored the test runner in Stellar Throne today. Still fine-tuning the combat UI, but the game’s coming back online one system at a time. 💥🛰️ #gamedev #solodev
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AI refactoring isn’t magic. Today Claude helped clean up some systems in Stellar Throne — but it also reminded me that clarity in prompts = stability in gameplay. Added a loading screen, improved UI, and pushing toward parity. #gamedev #GodotEngine
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🧪 Closing the Parity Gap in Godot Today was all about closing the gap between the original Zig build and the Godot port. I tackled a wide range of bugs and visual polish tasks: fog of war is back, the background star field is in...

Refined the Godot port of Stellar Throne with stylized menus, galaxy-wide zoom, working fog of war, and animated notifications. Also cleaned up the codebase. Feature parity is almost within reach! #gamedev #godotengine #4X
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