📦 Stellar Throne: Porting Progress & Platform Trade-Offs

Today's Godot port made huge strides across core systems:

✅ Phase 3.6: Combat & Military Systems
✅ Phase 3.7: Strategic Layer
✅ Phase 3.8: Advanced Features
✅ Phase 4: UI System
🔧 Phase 5: Integration & Testing (in progress)
One big shift I noticed today: debugging with Godot + Claude introduces a workflow tax. Since Claude can’t see the Godot runtime logs directly, I now have to manually screenshot errors and paste them in. This adds friction compared to my Zig workflow, where Claude could read the logs, compile the project, and even suggest fixes without manual input.

Trade-offs becoming clear:

Godot

• WebGL, cross-platform support
• GUI tools and live UI previews

• Slower iteration (need to reload manually)
• No direct access to logs

Zig

• Easier automated debugging
• Claude can build & run tests directly

• No built-in deploy pipeline
• No visual UI editor
  Overall, I still feel optimistic about the switch. Once the core pipeline is smoothed out and testing integrated, the benefits of rapid deployment and visual editing may outweigh the added friction.

Tomorrow I’ll focus on fixing the save/load integration and begin real-world gameplay tests inside the Godot port.