How TikTok’s Safety Bot Forced Me to Optimize My JS Canvas Engine

If you’ve ever tried marketing an indie game on short-form video platforms, you already know the golden rule: Make it flashy, make it fast, and make it pop. I’m currently building an in-browser sci-fi defense game called Divine Orbit. You play as an AI defending a planet from cosmic threats using orbital superweapons. Because it’s a web game, I wanted to prove that an HTML5 could produce chaotic, massive, cinematic explosions that rival desktop games. So, I cranked the visual juice to the absolu