Tech Debt - The Public Beta

Devlog

• v0.0.33 - If you had trouble understanding this game before, hopefully you wont now.
  March 25, 2026 by Schematical#roguelite, #strategy, #tutorial, #replayvalue

  Reworked the tutorial so there is no boss anymore. The Schematical Bot now guides you. The dialog is now in the form of a word bubble and the bot walks you around the world to explain things... Continue reading

  
• Technology and Infrastructure Descriptions
  March 20, 2026 by Schematical

  One of the main pieces of feedback I have gotten so far is that the game needs a bit more direction as far as what items are and how they affect other items in the game. I added Game Tips for all the... Continue reading

  
• 0.0.31 - Added back in the tutorial
  March 19, 2026 by Schematical

  Hey, I have been torn trying to make something so simple that its easy enough to understand and balancing that with over tutorializing and explaining every little thing. In this release I think I foun... Continue reading
• Tech Debt The Video Game
  March 15, 2026 by Schematical#Roguelite, #Replay Value, #Roguelike, #Strategy, #Single Player, #Base Building, #City Building, #Devlog

  Tech Debt The Video Game is really starting to come together. It is far more playable and less glitchy than ever before and it actually feels like a game. The Meta Challenges are working and allow you... Continue reading

  
• Big Update - New Level Types, Randomized Modifiers and Rewards
  March 02, 2026 by Schematical#citybuilder, #towerdefense, #roguelite, #colony manager

  Tech Debt The Game Update 3/2/2026 I have been obsessively working on Tech Debt - The Video Game , and it's been paying off. The biggest update in this release is breaking the “Product Road Map,”... Continue reading

  
• Q.O.L. - 0.0.14 & 0.0.15
  February 14, 2026 by Schematical

  Finally getting back to work after a week of being sick as a dog. Just added the following: Reworked a lot of the UI so it should work on 4k. Added in a shake effect on buttons that are waiting to be... Continue reading
• 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