Period: October 29, 2025 Total Commits: 12

Daily Dev Update: Campaign Parity, Smarter Spawns, and Smoother Roads - October 29, 2025

Hey, here’s what we worked on today. Campaign got a bunch of usability upgrades, endless mode learned to spawn on its own, movement on road maps is smoother, and the flamethrower’s damage ticks are where they should be. We also cleaned up the map browser and shipped the level editor button into the main menu.

What’s New

Campaign interaction parity with multiplayer

Campaign now supports the same interactive UI you’re used to:

Click any tower, minion, or spawn to see detailed stats in an info panel
Range rings appear when selecting towers
Upgrade/Sell for towers with proper gold checks
Upgrade/Destroy for spawn points
Quick controls: U to upgrade, Delete to sell/destroy
Right-click or click elsewhere to deselect

This makes solo runs a lot less guessy and a lot more deliberate—especially when juggling upgrades mid-wave.

[screenshot: tower info panel and range ring in Campaign at fb0a39a]

Auto-spawn for Campaign Endless

Endless mode now has autonomous spawn zones that manage their own economy and make spawn/upgrade decisions every few seconds. The goal is a steady escalation without you micromanaging the enemy side:

Independent gold/income per zone
Deterministic behavior for consistent runs and replays
Spawns continue at the wave interval even after the scripted waves end

It’s predictable in timing, not in composition, which keeps pressure consistent but varied.

Unified “Official Maps” browser

The level browser is simpler:

One “Official Maps” list with clear sections for Campaigns and Individual Levels
Individual levels get a subtle golden tint so they stand out
Cleaner metadata, consistent thumbnails, and a “Levels” heading for clarity
In the Reddit app, the type selector now reads “Official Maps” vs “Community Maps”

[screenshot: unified Official Maps list with campaign and level highlights at 4a69c48]

There’s now a Level Editor button in the main menu. In dev it links to the local editor, in production it opens the deployed build. It’s styled differently so it’s easy to spot.

And if you share a level from the editor, it captures a 1200x675 screenshot and uploads it to Reddit’s CDN for the post background. If that fails for any reason, it falls back gracefully.

What Got Fixed

Road movement precision

Minions were occasionally “sticking” near waypoints on road maps due to tiny floating-point errors. We switched to a grid-friendly normalization method that avoids square roots and lands units exactly on their marks. Result:

No micro-stalls near corners
Smoother lines, fewer path recalcs on road maps
Placement rules now respect “builds on path” flags correctly

[screenshot: minions pathing cleanly along roads at 990993b]

Flamethrower DPS correctness

The flamethrower was applying damage every frame instead of at its configured rate. It now ticks at the proper frequency:

6 hits per second (every ~0.1667s), not frame rate–dependent
Continuous damage keeps accurate overflow timing between ticks
Projectile timers reset correctly when reused

If you noticed it melting waves too fast before, this is why.

[screenshot: flamethrower ticked damage stream at 4556314]

Selection and action reliability in Campaign

Fixed coordinate mismatches that sometimes broke tower upgrade/sell actions
Bottom bar actions correctly clear selections now
Selection callbacks wired up for towers/minions/spawns so deselect works consistently

Wave and timer consistency

Campaign waves now wait for unit selection to finish before starting
“Survived” timer freezes exactly when the match ends (no more ghost seconds)

Auto-spawn upgrades

Auto-spawn zones now upgrade their spawns correctly. They use their own gold pool and skip player gold checks, as intended.

Data sanity and loading

Level metadata is more robust with sensible defaults
File-based IDs improve cache consistency
Fixed a couple of broken JSON files that were blocking loads
Reddit app no longer loops on level loading and shows a proper loading state during context checks

Under the Hood

Campaign simulation runs at 30 ticks per second; auto-spawn decision logic pulses roughly every 2 seconds
Pathfinding exposes grid state so we can safely skip unnecessary path rebuilds on road maps
Deterministic RNG seeded at match start for reproducible auto-spawn behavior
Level cards show a clear game mode instead of vague tags
Screenshot pipeline switched to Reddit’s free CDN hosting, reducing setup and cost while speeding up share flow
Improved logging around captures and uploads: timings, blob sizes, progress, and clearer errors to help us track failures

That’s the day. Try the new Campaign interactions and watch how the endless auto-spawns scale pressure over time. If you see pathing hiccups on custom maps or damage-over-time acting oddly, send a repro—those reports help a ton.