Devlog #4: Why Our Kickstarter Video Was So Shaky (But the Game Isn’t)

February 08, 2026

If you watched our gameplay footage and noticed the camera jumping around, you weren’t wrong

Some Android phones, especially low-cost models, don’t have any stabilization, neither optical nor digital.

When we recorded screen captures using AR, even tiny hand movements made the scene shake like crazy

The good news? It doesn’t affect gameplay at all.

In the app itself, the AR objects remain stable — it’s just the recording that looked messy.

Lesson learned:

  • Don’t assume “what we see” is what the camera records
  • Stabilization matters, even in dev videos