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dbeek @dbeeking
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dbeek@dbeeking
May 27
I launched my iPhone word puzzle game LetterPath about a month ago! Current stats: ~29K social views 16 downloads Pretty brutal.. but useful I suppose. If you like word games.. roast the App Store page or gameplay. I need the truth.. and not encouragement
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I’ve been working on a lot of mixes lately and one thing keeps standing out.. great records usually have a clear hierarchy. Something usually leads, something supports, and then something gets out of the way. You decide what that something is..
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The "fix" to a bad mix is almost never a better plugin.. it's realizing two things are fighting each other and turning one down.
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Yuki Game@YukiTheGame
Jun 2
If you've downloaded Yuki, a quick rating on the App Store means the world 🐾 takes 2 seconds → apps.apple.com/us/app/yuki-g…
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Yuki Game@YukiTheGame
Jun 1
Yuki Daily #26 🧩 Desert in June. Reply with your solution📱 link in bio
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I launched my iPhone word puzzle game LetterPath about a month ago! Current stats: ~29K social views 16 downloads Pretty brutal.. but useful I suppose. If you like word games.. roast the App Store page or gameplay. I need the truth.. and not encouragement
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Here’s the App Store page if you want to tear it apart: apps.apple.com/us/app/letter…
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The more I build map apps and games, the more obvious this gets: a good map isn't really a background... it's more of a mechanic. Where something happened / where you can go /what's nearby / what changed / what's hidden.. that's already gameplay.
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Grid-based puzzles started failing in the 2010s when designers started adding timers.. pressure isn't difficulty. It's just stress.. Chip's Challenge had a clock and it was the worst part of the game. Lolo had no clock and it's a masterpiece! NO clock on Yuki!
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Yuki Game@YukiTheGame
May 15
🧩 Yuki Daily #9. Hardest puzzle yet. One bone. Three Medusas. Reply with your solution.
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LetterPath puzzle generator now validates against a 12K-word corpus with definition coverage. Solver coverage went 78% → 99.4%. Found 3 corpus typos in the process (turns out "rythm" was sneaking past me).
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The trick with this Yuki level is that it’s not about finding a path. It’s about preserving the path you’ll need later. Every move has a cost. Rescue too early or cross the water wrong or take the obvious route and you quietly delete the solution.
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Headroom v1.0 shipped: Short-term LUFS metering (3s window).. Fixed CPU spike on files >500MB (was streaming the whole file into RAM, now chunked).. 30% faster on M-series Macs. Free !
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Tiny 2D games still need real rendering work.. Yuki went from 1,247 draw calls/frame to 18 by batching sprites by atlas and sorting Y for depth. Players won't notice the technique.. BUT! they'll notice the game doesn’t stutter or torch their battery. 🐶
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Sometimes I wonder if “bad mixes” aren’t bad because of EQ, compression, or loudness but rather theyre bad because the producer never chose what the song is actually about. You can’t mix indecision! You can only make it louder.
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I usually keep LUFS at -14 for streaming.. leaving some headroom for the codec, and let the master breathe. Dynamics > Loudness. #mastering
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Most word games test vocabulary. I think spatial reasoning is way more interesting… LetterPath is basically a navigation puzzle disguised as a word game.
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Most "mastering issues" start in the arrangement.. headroom usually means too much fighting for the same space. Mastering won't fix a crowded mix.. it'll just make the mess louder.
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The ITU spec tells you what K-weighting is. It does not tell you how easy it is to waste CPU implementing it badly. In Headroom I cache the sample-rate-specific biquad setup and keep the hot path focused on sample processing.. not rebuilding DSP plumbing.
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This level gets mean fast. Water splits the board, rocks kill lazy routes, guards punish timing, and the bone sits just far enough out to make you question the whole plan.
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Yuki Game@YukiTheGame
May 6
Yuki says "Happy Cinco de Mayo"
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