A CRAFT NOTEBOOK FOR INDIE GAME MAKERS

Small details.
A different feeling.

Play with a small technique. Bring it back to your game. Always with credit to the maker who sparked it.

NOTE 001 / HIT-STOP & CAMERA SHAKE 2026.10.08

EXPERIMENT 01 — FEEL THE DIFFERENCE 60 Hz

Baseline 0f

Straight through the moment.

Your experiment 4f · 66.7ms

Holding

Hold at contact

Add camera shake (12f) Watch at ¼ speed

27 / 89f

Frame 89f

Press play. Switch 4f → 0f and replay. What does that brief pause do to the readability of the hit?

Controls need JavaScript. The diagram below also explains it: 4f holds frames 27–30 and releases on frame 31.

INSIDE FOUR FRAMES / 60 Hz

26f Before

27f Contact

28f Hold

29f Hold

30f Hold

31f Release

27, 28, 29, 30. Those are the four held frames. By 31, motion has resumed. 4 ÷ 60 seconds ≈ 66.7ms.

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THE QUESTION
01 / 60 Hz

Let the hit linger.

Four frames. A tiny pause between contact and recoil. Before adding more shake, find out what that moment can do.