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Inside Spell Brigade: Netcode, VFX, and Systems Behind Four-Player Bullet Heaven

Spell Brigade’s devs reveal how they built a co-op-first bullet heaven where players are both the storm and the survivors. They cover pragmatic optimization in Unity, from GPU-driven vertex animations to careful network design that keeps spells snappy yet authoritative. On the content side, they outline a heavily systematized pipeline for spells, elements, VFX, and long-term progression, all stress-tested via internal tool...