Tech Debt - The Video Game

Devlog

• Legendary items and level ups are now in Tech Debt The Video Game
  February 05, 2026 by schematical

  The biggest thing in this week's release is the level up rarities and their animations. Any level up for both the NPC or as a reward for completing a code release will result in the possibility of the... Continue reading

  
• My video game has bugs that crawl around the screen and attack your servers - 0.0.10
  January 30, 2026 by schematical

  We had a revelation this week. The core game loop for Tech Debt wasn’t quite as engaging as I wanted. Events happened like DDoS attacks but they felt flat. Then about 4 am on Tuesday it hit me: We n... Continue reading

  
• v0.0.9 - Meta Progression, Challenges, And More
  January 23, 2026 by schematical

  I have been working on a ton of stuff for TDG(Short for “Tech Debt Game”). And version 0.0.9 should be live by the time this post goes live. Here are a few of the updates: Added in “Releases”... Continue reading
• v0.0.8 - Animations, More Infrastructure and Events.
  January 13, 2026 by schematical

  Added upgraded animations when the servers are being built and an explosion when they get knocked over. Also added a spark animation when the packets hit a frozen server. Added in CodePipeline Infrast... Continue reading

  
• v0.0.7 - Tutorial, Extra NPCs, UI Overhaul, NPC Traits
  January 10, 2026 by schematical

  In this release I added a fairly comprehensive(for where we are at) tutorial that is explained by 2 new NPCs. I completely redid the UI and will likely do it again in the future but at least it looks... Continue reading

  
• v0.0.6 - New Items, Follow Mode, and Fixes
  January 05, 2026 by schematical

  In this update we added items. Why? Because it makes the gameplay more interesting. There is also a follow mode now for cinematics... Continue reading

  
• 0.0.4
  January 03, 2026 by schematical

  Fixed some bugs and expanded the map... Continue reading
• v0.0.5 - Queues and workers.
  January 03, 2026 by schematical

  Added in queues and background workers and a bunch of fancy routing logic. In this one I fixed some of the bugs introduced by pooling the network packets... Continue reading

  
• 0.0.3
  January 02, 2026 by schematical

  Added in a door that the NPCs can enter and leave from. Added in Redis caching and 2 Redis read replicas. Added in malicious packets that instantly put servers into a `Frozen` state. Added in WAF to f... Continue reading