Josh Sauter - Superspective Dev
@superspective-dev.bsky.social
Developer for Superspective, a mind-bending first person abstract puzzle game set in a seamless impossible world.
Wishlist on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2239490/Superspective/
Wishlist on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2239490/Superspective/
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Superspective on Steam
Solve mind-bending physics and logic puzzles in Superspective, a first-person puzzle game where gravity is relative, rooms twist and fold back on themselves, and surreal architecture challenges how yo...
store.steampowered.com
Superspective Steam store page is live! Please wishlist it if you're interested, and share it with anyone you think may be interested as well. Thank you!!
store.steampowered.com/app/2239490/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2239490/...
SO: Why is your player just a capsule?
Me: It's a first person game, so you never actually see the player.
SO: But why not make it like a clown face or something?
Me: I don't know anything about texture mapping.
SO: So?
...
Ship it
Me: It's a first person game, so you never actually see the player.
SO: But why not make it like a clown face or something?
Me: I don't know anything about texture mapping.
SO: So?
...
Ship it
February 9, 2026 at 4:53 PM
SO: Why is your player just a capsule?
Me: It's a first person game, so you never actually see the player.
SO: But why not make it like a clown face or something?
Me: I don't know anything about texture mapping.
SO: So?
...
Ship it
Me: It's a first person game, so you never actually see the player.
SO: But why not make it like a clown face or something?
Me: I don't know anything about texture mapping.
SO: So?
...
Ship it
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The Art of Reflection is now available on Steam! Thank you everyone so much for all the support throughout development, I'm so excited everyone can finally get their hands on the game. Happy puzzling 🪞 store.steampowered.com/app/2290770/...
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Traverse mirrors as if they were natural extensions of space to solve puzzles and uncover secrets. Reshape your perspective to perform gravity-shifting acrobatics as you jungle-gym through a sprawling...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The Art of Reflection is now available on Steam! Thank you everyone so much for all the support throughout development, I'm so excited everyone can finally get their hands on the game. Happy puzzling 🪞 store.steampowered.com/app/2290770/...
𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝟬.𝟯.𝟬 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺!
Version 0.3.0:
- New tutorial area before A Fork in the Road
- Small existing level tweaks and bugfixes
- Backend systems improvements/rewrites
What's next:
- Followup from playtesters feedback
- More polish/bugfixes
- More new content
Version 0.3.0:
- New tutorial area before A Fork in the Road
- Small existing level tweaks and bugfixes
- Backend systems improvements/rewrites
What's next:
- Followup from playtesters feedback
- More polish/bugfixes
- More new content
November 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝟬.𝟯.𝟬 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺!
Version 0.3.0:
- New tutorial area before A Fork in the Road
- Small existing level tweaks and bugfixes
- Backend systems improvements/rewrites
What's next:
- Followup from playtesters feedback
- More polish/bugfixes
- More new content
Version 0.3.0:
- New tutorial area before A Fork in the Road
- Small existing level tweaks and bugfixes
- Backend systems improvements/rewrites
What's next:
- Followup from playtesters feedback
- More polish/bugfixes
- More new content
Reposted by Josh Sauter - Superspective Dev
I’ve just released a substantial video essay:
“How Music Mirrors Game Design in Taiji, Trifoil, Braid, Patrick’s Parabox & Other Games”
LINK IN THE REPLIES!
“How Music Mirrors Game Design in Taiji, Trifoil, Braid, Patrick’s Parabox & Other Games”
LINK IN THE REPLIES!
September 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I’ve just released a substantial video essay:
“How Music Mirrors Game Design in Taiji, Trifoil, Braid, Patrick’s Parabox & Other Games”
LINK IN THE REPLIES!
“How Music Mirrors Game Design in Taiji, Trifoil, Braid, Patrick’s Parabox & Other Games”
LINK IN THE REPLIES!
vital code and fix the bug.
Hope you enjoyed this short novel about a programming shortcut coming back to bite me in the butt. This has been one of the more exhausting bugs to track down and fix that I've seen in my time working on Superspective!
Hope you enjoyed this short novel about a programming shortcut coming back to bite me in the butt. This has been one of the more exhausting bugs to track down and fix that I've seen in my time working on Superspective!
September 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
vital code and fix the bug.
Hope you enjoyed this short novel about a programming shortcut coming back to bite me in the butt. This has been one of the more exhausting bugs to track down and fix that I've seen in my time working on Superspective!
Hope you enjoyed this short novel about a programming shortcut coming back to bite me in the butt. This has been one of the more exhausting bugs to track down and fix that I've seen in my time working on Superspective!
important initialization code would have NEVER run on the object, which led to buggy behavior when a save file was loaded and the object had to reset its state. Whenever I started investigating this issue, one of the first steps I would do is open the script in the inspector, which would run the (9)
September 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
important initialization code would have NEVER run on the object, which led to buggy behavior when a save file was loaded and the object had to reset its state. Whenever I started investigating this issue, one of the first steps I would do is open the script in the inspector, which would run the (9)
the inspector (side window). Most of the time, when you create an object and add a script to it, you will have opened this menu immediately after creating it. However, in some cases, I would be duplicating scripted objects without ever opening them in the inspector. In only this case, the very (8)
September 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
the inspector (side window). Most of the time, when you create an object and add a script to it, you will have opened this menu immediately after creating it. However, in some cases, I would be duplicating scripted objects without ever opening them in the inspector. In only this case, the very (8)
I looked up the initialization code that I had determined was somehow responsible for the bug, and found that for some reason, past me had thought it would be a good idea to have this run in a hook for OnInspectorGUI. If you don't know Unity, this means basically any time the object is open in (7)
September 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I looked up the initialization code that I had determined was somehow responsible for the bug, and found that for some reason, past me had thought it would be a good idea to have this run in a hook for OnInspectorGUI. If you don't know Unity, this means basically any time the object is open in (7)
to see the bug in action and observe it closely, it just doesn't happen? This was Schrödinger's bug. And that's when the realization hit me. It truly WAS Schrödinger's bug, this was a consistent pattern that EVERY time I tried to investigate this bug, it would stop happening. This was the clue! (6)
September 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
to see the bug in action and observe it closely, it just doesn't happen? This was Schrödinger's bug. And that's when the realization hit me. It truly WAS Schrödinger's bug, this was a consistent pattern that EVERY time I tried to investigate this bug, it would stop happening. This was the clue! (6)
Until I opened up the trigger zone that was bugging out in the editor, turned on some debug flags to include some vital logging in the console, and tried again. No bug! The trigger zone was working correctly. What the fuck is going on? Am I just horribly unlucky that every time I am in position (5)
September 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Until I opened up the trigger zone that was bugging out in the editor, turned on some debug flags to include some vital logging in the console, and tried again. No bug! The trigger zone was working correctly. What the fuck is going on? Am I just horribly unlucky that every time I am in position (5)
game, followed the steps in the video EXACTLY and sure enough, the bug happened: the gravity rotate zone trigger wasn't activating! I tried it again, and it happened again. Once more for good measure, and the bug happened a third time. Great, I finally have a consistent repro for this! (4)
September 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
game, followed the steps in the video EXACTLY and sure enough, the bug happened: the gravity rotate zone trigger wasn't activating! I tried it again, and it happened again. Once more for good measure, and the bug happened a third time. Great, I finally have a consistent repro for this! (4)
trying to fix. Every time I spent hours looking into it and coming up unable to make the bug happen again. So frustrating! Well thanks to one particular playtester (@Dubious Duckling) getting me a video of minimal repro steps, I was able to once again try investigating the issue. I booted up the (3)
September 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
trying to fix. Every time I spent hours looking into it and coming up unable to make the bug happen again. So frustrating! Well thanks to one particular playtester (@Dubious Duckling) getting me a video of minimal repro steps, I was able to once again try investigating the issue. I booted up the (3)
Every time I tried to investigate the issue, I could often reproduce it once or twice, but as soon as I tried to investigate further the bug would seemingly stop occurring. I figured maybe it was a race condition bug or something leading to transiently reproducible behavior, which I was dreading (2)
September 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Every time I tried to investigate the issue, I could often reproduce it once or twice, but as soon as I tried to investigate further the bug would seemingly stop occurring. I figured maybe it was a race condition bug or something leading to transiently reproducible behavior, which I was dreading (2)
Finally fixed a very annoying bug that has been plaguing me for months!
Here's the story:
Playtesters have been reporting that loading a save file sometimes leads to buggy behavior, like objects disappearing or trigger zones not activating. (1)
Here's the story:
Playtesters have been reporting that loading a save file sometimes leads to buggy behavior, like objects disappearing or trigger zones not activating. (1)
September 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Finally fixed a very annoying bug that has been plaguing me for months!
Here's the story:
Playtesters have been reporting that loading a save file sometimes leads to buggy behavior, like objects disappearing or trigger zones not activating. (1)
Here's the story:
Playtesters have been reporting that loading a save file sometimes leads to buggy behavior, like objects disappearing or trigger zones not activating. (1)
This is much, much easier to reason about and keep track of my streaming level layout than what I had before, which was just a list of levels in my LevelManager:
August 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
This is much, much easier to reason about and keep track of my streaming level layout than what I had before, which was just a list of levels in my LevelManager:
Working on some tooling to help visualize the world graph in Superspective, here's my progress! I have dynamically-sized level nodes, with Rect edge-to-edge directional (or bidirectional) arrows indicating the levels that should be loaded from each active scene.
August 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Working on some tooling to help visualize the world graph in Superspective, here's my progress! I have dynamically-sized level nodes, with Rect edge-to-edge directional (or bidirectional) arrows indicating the levels that should be loaded from each active scene.
Superspective 0.2.2 is now live! This patch is largely stability-focused, with a complete rewrite of some of the fundamental physics of the game to more consistently handle the non-Euclidean geometry in Superspective. There's a new secret to find as well...
July 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Superspective 0.2.2 is now live! This patch is largely stability-focused, with a complete rewrite of some of the fundamental physics of the game to more consistently handle the non-Euclidean geometry in Superspective. There's a new secret to find as well...
Investigating a bug with portals in Superspective, stepping through the code in my debugger, and it leads me to a bit of code I wrote -- with this comment written above it.
Welp. I guess that tracks lol
Welp. I guess that tracks lol
July 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Investigating a bug with portals in Superspective, stepping through the code in my debugger, and it leads me to a bit of code I wrote -- with this comment written above it.
Welp. I guess that tracks lol
Welp. I guess that tracks lol
💡I think I finally fixed the "portal wiggling" bug that existed in Superspective, where players could rapidly cross over the portal threshold and back again to sneak onto the backsides of portals. This would often leave them either stuck behind the portal, or falling out of the world. No more!
July 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
💡I think I finally fixed the "portal wiggling" bug that existed in Superspective, where players could rapidly cross over the portal threshold and back again to sneak onto the backsides of portals. This would often leave them either stuck behind the portal, or falling out of the world. No more!
Working on some fake volumetric light effects for Superspective, what do you think?
July 2, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Working on some fake volumetric light effects for Superspective, what do you think?
Here's a peak at the new level Locus Maximus, available to be explored now on Steam!
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July 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Here's a peak at the new level Locus Maximus, available to be explored now on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/2239490/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2239490/...
𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝟬.𝟮.𝟬 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺!
Version 0.2.0:
- New level Locus Maximus added
- Invert Y-axis controls added
- Various performance improvements
- Too many bugfixes to list, some visual and some related to save files
What's next:
- Perf improvements followup
- More bugfixes
Version 0.2.0:
- New level Locus Maximus added
- Invert Y-axis controls added
- Various performance improvements
- Too many bugfixes to list, some visual and some related to save files
What's next:
- Perf improvements followup
- More bugfixes
July 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝟬.𝟮.𝟬 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺!
Version 0.2.0:
- New level Locus Maximus added
- Invert Y-axis controls added
- Various performance improvements
- Too many bugfixes to list, some visual and some related to save files
What's next:
- Perf improvements followup
- More bugfixes
Version 0.2.0:
- New level Locus Maximus added
- Invert Y-axis controls added
- Various performance improvements
- Too many bugfixes to list, some visual and some related to save files
What's next:
- Perf improvements followup
- More bugfixes
Made some improvements to the glow around interactable objects. New version handles corners of objects much better and is a bit thicker and easier to see in general. This was something minor that's bothered me for a bit but never felt important enough to prioritize, I'm glad I finally did!
June 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Made some improvements to the glow around interactable objects. New version handles corners of objects much better and is a bit thicker and easier to see in general. This was something minor that's bothered me for a bit but never felt important enough to prioritize, I'm glad I finally did!
Superspective Steam store page is live! Please wishlist it if you're interested, and share it with anyone you think may be interested as well. Thank you!!
store.steampowered.com/app/2239490/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2239490/...
Superspective on Steam
Solve mind-bending physics and logic puzzles in Superspective, a first-person puzzle game where gravity is relative, rooms twist and fold back on themselves, and surreal architecture challenges how yo...
store.steampowered.com
May 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Superspective Steam store page is live! Please wishlist it if you're interested, and share it with anyone you think may be interested as well. Thank you!!
store.steampowered.com/app/2239490/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2239490/...
Proud to show off the new official art + logo for Superspective! Thanks to the wonderful artists at Red Potion Studios for helping give a professional touch to the game😄
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May 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Proud to show off the new official art + logo for Superspective! Thanks to the wonderful artists at Red Potion Studios for helping give a professional touch to the game😄
redpotionstudios.net#team
redpotionstudios.net#team