Flipped Sky Postmortem: What We Got Right, What We Botched, and a Laser-Frozen Robot That Still Turns in Place
Two months after submitting to GMTK 2026, I went back through the code: writing gravity as a vector was right, spending three days on systems and barely more than a day on levels was wrong. The rainbow title got eaten by integer division, and the real culprit behind the laser softlock was five unregistered lasers, nothing to do with being “hit in midair”.