Starting Level 6 of North Is Not Up
Building Loch Ailsa’s streamed world, open-water navigation and swimming systems—and chasing the hitches that refused an easy answer.
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What I built, how I built it, and what went wrong along the way.
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Polishing North Is Not Up’s First Five Levels
I returned to the finished courses to improve pacing training, mountain audio, asset imports and several small inconsistencies players would notice.
Building Ravenwood: North Is Not Up’s Streamed Score Course
How I rebuilt a country estate, divided it into 65 streamed cells and added North Is Not Up’s first any-order score course.
Building Black Crag Rescue in North Is Not Up
How I turned North Is Not Up into a mountain rescue exercise with clues, directional sound and a grid-reference finale.
Building Brackenford Crossing in North Is Not Up
I completed the game around the original prototype, then built and repaired a 640-metre river course where every crossing mattered.
Starting North Is Not Up: A Map, a Compass and No Blue Dot
How I turned a small woodland navigation prototype into North Is Not Up and laid the foundations for its first full course.
Welcome to Dreamcoded
Why I started Dreamcoded and what I plan to build with AI.