This week
- Have you ever noticed that the food graphics in Super Smash Bros. and Kirby Air Riders is flat “billboarded” stock images of food? This artistic decision from director Masahiro Sakurai has persisted through 8 games over nearly 25 years. I've seen a few folks online remarking...
Two weeks ago
- Trina got me a Playdate for Christmas this year! I've always been intrigued by this console, as it is highly constrained in terms of pixel and color-depth (400x240, 2 colors), but also provides many helpful resources for game development such as a software development kit (SDK)...
about 1 month ago
about 2 months ago
- Inkwell Games bills itself as “Daily puzzles worth thinking about” and that’s a great tagline. Right now they offer two daily puzzles: Stars and Fields. Both are enjoyable but I rank Stars as a bit above Fields but as I get better at understanding the patterns of Fields it’s...
- Clues By Sam is a daily puzzle game where you get to uncover a criminal conspiracy by following the clues… made by Sam… err… Johannes. It’s a little if-this-then-that logic puzzle where Pam implicates Bob as a criminal and because Bob is a plumber and there’s one innocent...
2 months ago
- Although I technically own the game and played it once a decade ago; I had a horrible time playing Rust. Other players called me the N-word several times, I died almost instantly, my frame rates were trash, and after three hours I put it down and never played it again. Despite...
- I stumbled onto Odd Artworks’ Random Mini Dungeon video series via the algorithm. He rolls against a dice table to generate a theme and requirements and starts drawing an isomorphic dungeon on a single sheet of paper. It’s almost like a Solo-RPG meets Inktober mashup activity....
3 months ago
- I like many others initially dismissed Odin as that language that was primarily intended for game development. It took me a moment or should I say many moments to realize just how stupid that notion was......
4 months ago
- This is a topic I’ve stumbled across a few times and would like to see more people think about. I was reading a book on the history of text games1 50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon; Reed; Changeful Tales; 2023., one chapter of which covered the early...
- TLDR: I built a simple & fun game using React Native, try it out on iPhone and iPad! In the Beginning…. My kids are 7 & 9 as I write this in 2025, but 6 years ago in 2019 they loved a simple little bubble popping app on my phone, and I thought it’d be … Continue reading Super...
5 months ago
- What we’ll do is set a low-ish turn limit and see how much they manage to accomplish in that time.1 Another alternative for more linear games is running them multiple times with a turn limit and seeing how often they get past a particular point within that turn limit. Given how...
6 months ago
- It’s very easy to accidentally try to create too large a text adventure. My first attempt was way too ambitious, and would have taken months to finish. I still love the idea for that, but it had to go. I picked another idea that was much smaller in scope, but it, too, grew too...
- Epic meaning and calling Narrative: Context why you should play the game. It's your mission. Personalize the mission and their journey through the game e.g. "You are a hero who is going to save the world from the evil forces". Unique opportunity: L......
- July 3, 2025 Steve Mould is a science YouTuber whose work I really enjoy. He recently posted a video showing off an OpenDrop device by GaudiLab. The device is mesmerizing, and he was able to get some simple games developed for it using CoPilot. He explains the physics behind the...
7 months ago
- For the past five years, I’ve been running a family Minecraft server. The server began as a one-year experiment during the pandemic but quickly became an indispensable “third place” for our kids to spend time with friends and extended family who lived far away. I’m writing this...
- {/* eslint-disable react/jsx-no-undef */} If you aren't familiar with the extent of the Minecraft modding scene, it's big. There are mods with more thought put into them than many AAA games. The best example is Create: { Note that trains (and windmills and assembly lines) are...
- DeepMind Shows Us the Messy Reality of Agent Building The Gemini 2.5 technical report is finally out, and there are few surprises. The Google team explicitly focused on real-world coding performance and it’s clear that long context abilities were prioritized. Gemini performs...
8 months ago
- Writing a game solver for Queuedle....
- A daily word-sliding puzzle game inspired by Wordle and Scrabble....
9 months ago
- How good are you?...
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