The particle system has been a lot of work, it's finally in an acceptable spot. I decided to make particles 1/2 size and use the text glyphs. The full sized glyphs were just too chonky, especially for bullet trails

i've made many of the UI elements actually clickable now. Ideally it can be played fully with a mouse

Experimenting with more cool text effects for the cowboy roguelike/qudlike

Nice! if you need _even more_ performance, i recommend doing hierarchical astar - breaking the map into bigger nodes. Then you can search that graph first, and build fine-grained path after. This also solves the reachability problem!