Godot supports loading resources asynchronously. This is extremely important; when creating a game, if you ever need to load anything from disk, you don't want your game to freeze while things are…

 Navigating the dark expanses of a Cepheus Engine campaign should never be entirely safe. This comprehensive d100 table provides an array of cosmic phenomena, navigational dangers, and systemic…

Would you like to download the most exciting pastry-based Asteroids clone ever created? Well you've come to the right place!

As part of my previous post reverse engineering the Denon XML API I talked about my love for the Golf sound effects in Nintendo Switch Sports, complete with a way to build an ambient soundscape. But…

My friend Joe the Lawyer and I are having a live discussion about the Northern Marches, along with other OSR and RPG topics, tomorrow, Sunday at 5 pm Eastern Daylight Time. I hope you will join us.…

A while back, I made a few posts about my thoughts on the Star Fox series. Like many fans, I am also fascinated by this series' potential and frustrated how it's never been able to fully capitalize…

The Group Stage of the 2026 World Cup finished today, so it’s time to mark the homework. Back in the launch post five AI models, a deterministic lookup table, and one football fan predicted the same…

Valve’s new 2026 Steam Machine has created a lot of discussion online given it’s pricing. In this quick blog post I will look at specs of the Steam Machine and try create a barebones equivalent or…

There's a browser game called You are the OS where you play as a computer's operating system. Processes request memory, users get impatient, the machine dies if you can't keep up. It's a sim about a…

Great games come with LAN co-op. Even greater games allow you to directly enter the game lobby's IP address. Saints Row: The Third doesn't and relies on UDP broadcasts, instead. And because WireGuard…

Some games are over before the official ending(s). Sometimes it feels like the developers ran out of ideas or perhaps they never planned to go byond a certain point, but whatever it is, it feels…

How to introduce consumers to gambling before they even get to launch Counter-Strike on the thing.

i know you’re already typing “of course the cookie clicker guy would post that” but i really do have a fondness for exponential automation bootstrapping scenarios. one of my…

What's in a name? The post World Cup combos appeared first on Playrface.

This started as list of replacement mission control nationalities for 60 Years in Space , which is why the distribution is uneven. Roll 1d6, then again as directed. 1 Atlantis 2 Carcosa 3 (1d6) 1-2:…

The magic number: 1908. The year my great uncle was born (his birthday was only 3 digits, 6-6-8, which is so Mr Burns), and my current rating on Lichess. My rating will never be higher. It will never…

Three mini reviews of NextFest Demos from June 2026

Note This story is also a game. I wrote it with dice, so, at times, I had no idea of what was going to happen. Like in a role-playing game, I rolled to check how fast a character ran or if a goblin…

Earlier this week, I put together a quick Jupyter notebook to figure out who plays which third-place team in the Round of 32. I parsed the Wikipedia table into a Pandas DataFrame with 20 columns:…

This post on reddit asks how to rule a forest fire started by player characters. My day job involves running forest growth and wildfire simulations. I got into it via GIS & R coding and have little…

Yesterday went pretty well in regards to the pride commander event I ran at the local card shop. It was myself and 2 other people, so another low turnout but it was enough to play so it was good…

Should have posted this yesterday, too... but Quadrilateral Cowboy has been updated in honor of its 10th anniversary! Brendon added an Extras menu full of development footage, including development…

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My friend and fellow New Yorker Francisco González launched a Buttondown-based newsletter last year to announce the release of Rosewater , the latest in his long-and-growing oeuvre of independently…

One day I'm going to write a proper polished blogpost about testing for difficulty balance for ChoiceScript games. It is not this day, but here's a link to my most recent short post on the subject.

Social anxiety is a fear response to a specific situation you're anticipating, often triggered by past experiences or trauma. Basically, your brain is trying to protect you by emoting danger bongos,…

Today’s Newsday Saturday Stumper , by David P. Williams, was Strange Solving. I started on paper, looked at 1-A, four letters, “Persian product” (RUGS?) and 1-D, four letters, “Confederate” (?),…

Omens are the primary "adventure seeds" used by Mythic Bastionland . I've talked about how to actually use them during the Exploration Procedure of the game, but I'd also like to address their…

The Crownless Company go down to level 2 and meet some of the off-kilter locals, make friends with them, and explore a good chunk of the quadrant. Party Members Tina the Titanic - Level 6 Fighter…

Some students misunderstand what I mean by saying: “Play with good focus.” In their minds, this means quickly getting into a state of flow, consistently. But that’s not possible. And worse, this…

27 Jun, 2026 gaming pc hardware channels right now are posting loads of videos like THIS PC KILLS THE STEAM MACHINE DEAD AND IS $100 CHEAPER then show a build with a CPU cooler bigger than the entire…

play pacman, but as the ghost :)

This week sees a cyberpunk setting for an apparently obscure RPG system.

Jack of Trades allows player characters to attempt a throw as if they had -0 in a skill. Their Jack of Trades levels confers a bonus to the roll as appropriate to the skill being tested: Jack of…

Valve's Steam Machine is $1,049. Here are the mini PC alternatives that play the same games for less, and when the Steam Machine still wins.

Caveat Emptor: I realize I am not the first to propose a system like this. Like many things with Classic Traveller the Out of the Box series covers this topic . Consider this an alternative ruling. I…

MkIV power armour is perhaps the suit most people picture when they think of the Horus Heresy, the advanced plate that carried entire Legions through the war's bloodiest campaigns. We're unboxing two…

At the mid-point of the year, asking how the #City26 challenge is coming along. On a pure stats, it is not bad - --% of total hex-count for the year achieved with 50% of the time gone. I have not…

This rare Treasure Hunter G interview originally appeared in Square's official strategy guide published in 1996 and covers the team's inspirations and character design. The post Treasure Hunter G –…

Mat Piscatella: Hardware - PlayStation hardware unit sales fell to…PlayStation hardware unit sales fell to their lowest May total since May 2000, while Xbox hardware unit sales were the lowest…

No dreaded Google Translate for this one; German from Beta-senpai. You can't do that, monster, because I am here. Do you come from Austria or Germany? No, no, don't tell me. I'll find that out…

Comic featuring the Rescue Squad Toads, available on Nintendo of America’s official site for Paper Mario: Color Splash in 2016.Source: RHG1951Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small…

The NSR discord has released our second free community-made zine! This issue's theme: SPACE WIZARDS!

Eggnob's been progressing pretty slowly over the last few weeks; between trips away and the scorching heat I've been too tired to do much level design, but I have sorted out all gameflow / UI stuff…

Three new ways to fight at sea: raise a patrol to guard your waters, blockade enemy convoys, and read raiders off your Watch Tower.

This week the lighthouse world got tide water, a proper login screen landed on both desktop and Web, gamepad support finally reached the browser, and block entities can at last rotate. Oh, and…

BackgroundPlaytesting is one of the most important processes in game development. It helps with finding bugs, evaluating the game's UX, balancing the game, and, most importantly, assessing how…

It is time for another small update that turned into a big one because why not! From new features to… The post Prestige Exchange Update v1.3.418 appeared first on Official OneBit Adventure…

When a corpse is the world

I can't wait!