Cold Takes

Cold Takes is a series of design blog posts started by GoogleFrog in December 2023. Links are below, but someone should probably copy them to the wiki before Steam reorganises itself (hint hint).

• Cold Take #1 - Why Zero-K (Original post on Steam.)
• Cold Take #2 - Quant's Rule (Original post on Steam.)
• Cold Take #3 - Fight your opponent, not the UI (Original post on Steam.)
• Cold Take #4 - Factories as Factions (Original post on Steam.)
• Cold Take #5 - Making Metal (Original post on Steam.)
• Cold Take #6 - Physics vs. Formulas (Original post on Steam.)
• Cold Take #7 - Jumpjets and Jumplegs (Original post on Steam.)
• Cold Take #8 - Smoothly Flowing Economy (Original post on Steam.)
• Cold Take #9 - Energy as Supply (Original post on Steam.)
• Cold Take #10 - The Smartest Unit in Zero-K (Original post on Steam.)
• Cold Take #11 - The Atomic Solution to Monospam (Original post on Steam.)
• Cold Take #12 - Mighty Morphing (Original post on Steam.)
• Cold Take #13 - Pro-Simplicity, Anti-Nuke (Original post on Steam.)
• Cold Take #14 - Free Factories For All (Original post on Steam.)
• Cold Take #15 - Experiences With Veterancy (Original post on Steam.)
• Cold Take #16 - Aim and Fire (Original post on Steam.)
• Cold Take #17 - Tactical and Strategic Cloaking (Original post on Steam.)
• Cold Take #18 - Terrain Matters (Original post on Steam.)
• Cold Take #19 - Game Jams (Original post on Steam.)
• Cold Take #20 - Teamwork By Default (Original post on Steam.)
• Cold Take #21 - To See What You Can See
• Cold Take #22 - Radar and the Limits of Vision
• Cold Take #23 - Against Space
• Cold Take #24 - Balancing Burst Breakpoints
• Cold Take #25 - Completely Free
• Cold Take #26 - Reliable Raven
• Cold Take #27 - Widgets and Gadgets
• Cold Take #28 - Vehicles and Bots
• Cold Take #29 - Aircraft, Ammo, and AA
• Cold Take #30 - Base Building Blocks
• Cold Take #31 - Terraform
• Cold Take #32 - Stun and Lightning
• Cold Take #33 - Give It Slow
• Cold Take #34 - Build a Navy
• Cold Take #35 - Shields as Spherical Shells
• Cold Take #36 - Bounding the Strategic Triangle
• Cold Take #37 - Scouting Trouble