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summerengine/summer
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Debug features that work but feel wrong — floaty jumps, mushy combat, sluggish camera — subjective bugs living in tuning, timing, and feedback layers.

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# Debugging Game Feel

## Overview

"Works but feels wrong" is its own debugging discipline. The code is correct. No diagnostic flags it. The unit tests pass. And yet the jump is floaty, the sword has no weight, the camera lags the player, the dash is unsatisfying.

**Core principle:** Game-feel bugs are tuning bugs, not logic bugs. Treat them with discipline — isolate one variable, compare to a reference, measure what you can, feel what you can't.

This skill is for the diagnostic phase. The polish-and-juice layer (screen shake, hit-stop, particles, sound design) is `game-feel` — go there once you've identified WHICH variable is wrong.

## When To Use

- The user says: "feels floaty", "feels mushy", "feels off", "feels sluggish", "doesn't feel right", "lacks impact", "lacks weight", "doesn't feel satisfying".
- The feature passes `playtesting-a-feature` (no errors, golden path runs) but still doesn't feel right.
- You're tuning movement, combat, camera, or any interaction with frame-level timing.

## When NOT To Use

- The feature has a **concrete reproducible bug** — go to `investigating-bugs`.
- The feature **crashes or throws** — go to `debug`.
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Source

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summerengine/summer · 86 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

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