https://pewrun.com/blog Dodz writes about making PewRun, a dark hand-drawn run and gun: design, art, code, sound and the AI tools behind them. en Sun, 08 Nov 2026 07:13:39 GMT https://pewrun.com/blog/the-gutter-is-wet https://pewrun.com/blog/the-gutter-is-wet Sun, 08 Nov 2026 07:13:39 GMT Dodz levels lighting water The first real stretch of Chapter 1: seven layers of depth, painted lights turned into real ones, water that reflects the screen and a light rain. https://pewrun.com/blog/pew-pew-eight-directions https://pewrun.com/blog/pew-pew-eight-directions Sun, 08 Nov 2026 06:05:43 GMT Dodz shooting weapons Aiming, weapons as data, bolts that never skip through walls and a script that finds the tip of the blaster in every frame. https://pewrun.com/blog/making-a-tiny-alien-feel-good https://pewrun.com/blog/making-a-tiny-alien-feel-good Sun, 08 Nov 2026 05:50:59 GMT Dodz movement game-feel Coyote time, jump buffering, a dash with one air charge and ledge grabs: the numbers behind Pew's movement. https://pewrun.com/blog/nine-sheets-eighteen-animations https://pewrun.com/blog/nine-sheets-eighteen-animations Sun, 08 Nov 2026 05:38:20 GMT Dodz animation pipeline How Pew's sprites went from generated sheets to one tidy atlas in Godot, and why the run cycle took seven tries. https://pewrun.com/blog/a-title-screen-in-the-rain https://pewrun.com/blog/a-title-screen-in-the-rain Sun, 08 Nov 2026 04:56:57 GMT Dodz godot shaders audio The first thing running in Godot: a backdrop with real water reflections, layered rain, and Pew blinking and firing from inside the logo. https://pewrun.com/blog/teaching-ai-to-draw-pew https://pewrun.com/blog/teaching-ai-to-draw-pew Sun, 08 Nov 2026 04:30:00 GMT Dodz art ai Third hands, antennae, white eyes and a sky inside a sewer: what went wrong with the generated art, and the rules that fixed it. https://pewrun.com/blog/meet-pew https://pewrun.com/blog/meet-pew Sun, 08 Nov 2026 04:10:45 GMT Dodz design gdd A tiny green alien in a hoodie, a rainy New York and one design document: how PewRun started.