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World 11 main menu showing the play, daily challenge, and mode options

build-in-public • July 18, 2026 • FEATURED

I Balanced My Roguelike With A Bot That Plays A Thousand Games

A balance bot runs hundreds of optimal teams through the full gauntlet and reports the champion rate. That dial replaced the playtest team a solo developer does not have.

#game development #game balance #automated testing #roguelike

World 11 formation select screen showing the eleven formation options

build-in-public • July 11, 2026 • FEATURED

I Tune My Game's Balance By Editing JSON, Not Code

All of World 11's balance lives in data files. Tuning the difficulty means editing JSON and rerunning, never touching the simulation. Here is why that split matters.

#game development #game balance #data driven #godot

game-development • July 6, 2026

Balancing a Roguelike to a One-in-Three Win Rate With a Headless Harness

My draft roguelike was too easy. A strong team won the cup two-thirds of the time, so winning meant nothing. Here is how I stopped guessing and tuned it to a real one-in-three with a few hundred simulated runs.

#godot #game-dev #game-balance #roguelike