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Steven Volkov

@stevenmmmJoined August 2026

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Five level-ups in one frame: what stacking does to a PixiJS portrait halo

Most level-up halo examples fire once. Real games often don't. A boss kill or a quest turn-in can push the player through several levels in a single frame, and the halo code written for one level-up g

1Oct 16 · 8 min readnixiefx-notes.hashnode.dev

A PixiJS shield break that vanished during hit-stop

Hit-stop is the few frames where a game freezes on a big impact so the hit lands. I added it to a PixiJS shield break: the third hit empties the shield, the shield shatters into shards, and the whole

Oct 16 · 8 min readnixiefx-notes.hashnode.dev

NixieFX vs tsParticles in a PixiJS game: one win burst, built twice and measured

tsParticles is what a lot of people reach for when a web page needs confetti or a particle background, and for good reason: it's one package, the options are JSON, and it looks good with very little s

Oct 15 · 11 min readnixiefx-notes.hashnode.dev

Campfire embers that drift toward (0, 0): testing wind away from the world origin in Three.js

Most ember demos put the campfire at the world origin, mine included. That's the obvious place to build a test scene, and it's the one place where a whole class of bug can't show up. In a real level t

Oct 14 · 7 min readnixiefx-notes.hashnode.dev

Put a crafting spark above the inventory slot in PixiJS

An inventory effect needs to identify the slot that changed without hiding its item, quantity, or neighboring labels. A short spark above the slot gives the effect its own space. The harder part is ke

Oct 12 · 5 min readnixiefx-notes.hashnode.dev

Steven Volkov

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Steven Volkov's blogs

Five level-ups in one frame: what stacking does to a PixiJS portrait halo

A PixiJS shield break that vanished during hit-stop

NixieFX vs tsParticles in a PixiJS game: one win burst, built twice and measured

Campfire embers that drift toward (0, 0): testing wind away from the world origin in Three.js

Put a crafting spark above the inventory slot in PixiJS

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Steven Volkov

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Steven Volkov's blogs

Five level-ups in one frame: what stacking does to a PixiJS portrait halo

A PixiJS shield break that vanished during hit-stop

NixieFX vs tsParticles in a PixiJS game: one win burst, built twice and measured

Campfire embers that drift toward (0, 0): testing wind away from the world origin in Three.js

Put a crafting spark above the inventory slot in PixiJS