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Would you please link to the specific /handoff and /continue skills you're using? I do not see them as built-in skills.

Author's note from the book:

"...I discovered Fabien Sanglard’s website and began reading his Game Engine Black Books on Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. Inspired by those works, I wondered whether I could do something similar for Commander Keen: open up the source code, explore the files, and piece together a picture of the overall architecture and the clever tricks used. The style, dimensions, and structure of this book are intentionally similar to Fabien’s Game Engine Black Books, as an homage to those masterpieces. To give it a personal twist, I inverted the title and cover to white."

Excellent article, and I appreciate how you gave an overview of solutions that didn't make sense for you but were otherwise important to know about.

Could you expand on how your pathfinding works for both ground-based and flying enemies? I've been trying to wrap my head around how to handle this on my own game, and trying not to invent a wholly separate solution for enemies than can avoid obstacles vertically.

This is true, I jammed the game out rather quickly but next thing I’d try is a hold-for-power control scheme (like the interactive demos in the article)

That's great feedback, thank you. I built a rudimentary control scheme on top of the minimal Crisp library and will take a look into doing a little more with it.

from the context in the article, this seems to be the Spanish equivalent of “jack of all trades, master of none”

The workaround/hack is to send your token via the "Sec-WebSocket-Protocol" header, which is the one header you're allowed to set in browser when opening a connection. The catch is that your WebSocket server needs to echo this back on a successful connection.

This is excellent! There used to be a similar app called "Sticky AI", but the company abandoned it after a while and the backend for the app shut down. This works great and has no external dependencies.

(disclosure: I work on the backend at Parsec)

For those who don't know either company: Unity is a popular 2D/3D commercial game engine, and Parsec is a low-latency remote desktop tool that initially focused on gaming, but pivoted to an enterprise product for remote creative teams during the pandemic.