Cricket Manager - Devlog Entry #8: Strength in the Engine, Anti-Shill Guards & Market Pavilion
Wiring strength into match simulations, bowler speeds, anti-shill transfer market locks, and opening the 7,000-capacity Market Pavilion.
A collection of 24 posts covering game development, programming, sports, and random thoughts over the years.
Wiring strength into match simulations, bowler speeds, anti-shill transfer market locks, and opening the 7,000-capacity Market Pavilion.
Launching the Gym training facility for stamina and strength, stadium gate receipts, and a single-pass Match Center 2.0 redesign.
Launching the Free Agent Transfer Market, listing taxes, economy balance, fielding runouts, and real-time notifications.
Migrating to Next.js 15 and Drizzle ORM, introducing tactical short bowling spells, specialized keeper training, and community forums.
Beta release updates, 60+ users, league promotions, player training, and match engine statistical scaling lessons.
Adopting Next.js App Router, shadcn/ui, Clerk auth, and Turso SQLite for a modern, scalable indie game stack.
Reflections on technical debt, software architecture lessons, scoping solo projects, and restarting with a clean canvas.
Introducing Cricket Manager, tech stack evaluation with RedwoodJS, GraphQL, React, and early architectural prototyping.
Reviewing multi-room expansion, economy scaling, tower defense, and leaderboard rankings for our custom Screeps AI OS.
Designing a modular cooperative operating system kernel, process scheduler, and execution queues for a Screeps AI bot.
Migrating the Screeps AI bot from JavaScript to TypeScript, introducing room managers, and establishing specialized creep roles.
Exploring Screeps, an MMO sandbox strategy game where players write real JavaScript/TypeScript code to control their empire and manage tick CPU limits.
A humorous look at an unforgettable Bangalore rain-and-traffic journey governed entirely by Murphy's Law.
Reflections on the retirement of Kumar Sangakkara, Shane Watson, and Ian Bell.
Setting up a custom domain name for the GitHub Pages blog.
Reflecting on the wave of cricket retirements at the 2015 Ashes, including Michael Clarke, Ryan Harris, Chris Rogers, and Brad Haddin.
Transitioning my blog engine to Jekyll after seven years of occasional blogging.
Reflections on research, Einstein's famous quote, late-night master's thesis work, and why we build things.
A tribute to Rahul Dravid upon his retirement from international cricket, celebrating his unmatched resilience and classical batsmanship.
Reflections on rapid advancements in open source technology, Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, KDE, AMD Phenom II, and Windows 7 during college days at NIT Rourkela.
Reflections on the retirement of Sourav Ganguly, India's most charismatic captain and the Lord of the Off Side.
A tribute to Anil Kumble on his retirement from international cricket, reflecting on his relentless spirit and the end of a golden era.
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