"Marin," you may be wondering, "have you done any work on your Japan trip page yet?" To that, my friend, the answer is a big fat no (everything is still in docs) (I think it's fair I haven't finished…

Yesterday afternoon, after a brief daydream near Aberdeen, South Dakota led to a maddening* speeding ticket, I parked Sally in the first gas station I came across, and began scanning Steam for a…

SO after all that drama , OSGrid is not completely closing and disappearing at all. Having worked everyone up into a froth with the announcement that Sunday 18 October was going to be "the Last…

Today Steam Next Fest starts! I’ve been pushing a lot of updates recent days, and the most important time in this game’s story begins today. The demo is already reopened, so play it! It…

Here's a talk I gave this weekend at Roguelike Celebration. Mazes: Are We Lost Yet? It's basically half an hour of me going off on cool mazes. The talk in text form The slides, in the big layout I…

NullG’s development from January’s engine plans through asset loading, racing systems, XL research, agent validation, and reinforcement learning.

This collection of Parasite Eve interviews originally appeared in various magazines (Dengeki Playstation, Hyper Playstation, and The Playstation) from 1997-1998. The post Parasite Eve – 1997…

The location of the Lymansk bubble in Stalker 2. Plus some information on the DLC locations in Stalker 2.

Fixed the Back button (including mouse back buttons) taking you out of a game to the main menu – it now does nothing while you’re playing Demos now share basic gameplay statistics (turns…

Before you begin reading this, it is imperative that you put on some Yellowcard. Preferably, the song Way Away, off their album Ocean Avenue. While listening to that, take a look at this gif.…

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In this paper, we evaluate how quickly Minecraft's non-renewable resource can become over extracted to make glass pyramids The post Sand Scarcity in a Post-Scarcity World: Ecological Collapse Driven…

Just switch the first letter, they'll never know.

Turning everyday surroundings into a scavenger hunt with Jev. Inside SpotQuest’s visual reasoning, game design, and unit economics.

Plus: Open source FPGA hardware's going to give the busy Android scene a run for its money.

The Brazilian side needed only two maps to book their place in Sunday's Counter-Strike 2 final, where a familiar opponent awaits.

Publisher: Interplay (1996). Review posted 2026/10/18.

A little over two weeks ago, I announced my roguelike deckbuilder Now You’re Cooking!. As promised, here’s my postmortem on the announce.Read more...

Black Tide warbands bring storms, churches call them in, the Matron looks after new Governors, and Realm Orders shows everything at work.

Fixed AI units ending their turn stacked on top of another unit, then jumping to a nearby tile at end of turn A unit stopped on a tile another unit holds can no longer attack from there A city now…

It turns out you can find a solution to The China Labyrinth puzzle if you do not worry about the border.

Sonic Generations was a big deal when it first released in late 2011 for PS3 and Xbox 360. It was the first major Sonic …

So I recently took a trip to San Francisco for the FaithTech Awaken conference (an amazing experience, about which I shall share more in the future). But it made memories of my first ever point &…

I probably haven't played Hearthstone in 2 or 3 years, maybe 4. A quick game once a year or so, to see how it feels. I gave it yet another shot last week and for the first time in a long time, it…

Android is still better for dual-screen multitasking right now, but things will only get better.

Molleindustria’s biggest project is out on Steam and Itch.io for both Windows and Mac. Future? No Thanks! is proudly and foolishly self published. After a troubled review process, it dropped during…

This Sunday at 11am is the big meet up for OSgrid residents to have their say and learn more about the decision to close the grid on the last day of December 2026. Come to Hurliman Plaza with a local…

I read somewhere to just copy a game you really liked in order to learn how to make your first game. But I like a lotta games!

This Labor Day I was finally able to stop and take a breath about how AI is going to affect the game industry. Like many of you, I feel like AI news, content, and hype have permeated every aspect of…

To Phantasy Star II, the English translation for the PlayStation 2 remake was updated to v4.0! Now this translation successfully loads on real a PlayStation 2! And lots of typos were corrected. To…

check out my journey, tips - tricks, - other Stardew related bullshittery!

A simple and fun game where a worm eats pizzas in a pizza parlour to grow longer and get the high score! After much effort and hard work, Pizza Worm for the SNES is finally released! Inspired by the…

PICO-8 and Retro Handheld I got PICO-8 running on my Anbernic RG35XXSP and I am having a blast with it.

I'm currently working on a game that my friend, Wilson, started a while back but never finished. We're trying to recreate a game his uncle used to play…

Fire Emblem: Fortune’s WeaveMy first Fire Emblem game, my introduction to the series, was Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright. Later, I played Conquest, the same game from a different perspective. That...

On paper, roguelike games seem like they were tailor-made for my personal tastes. They are jam-packed with things I love: procedural generation and the exploration it offers, complex mechanical depth…

Thinking about why some players chafe against Guilty Gear's RISC, and other mechanics like it.

I started studying game design and development this fall and have spent the last few months reading about and creating tiny game experiments. In the lessons and literature we've been told a great way…

As most of you who have followed me for any length of time probably know, I have an alt problem in just about any MMO I play long-term. This includes FFXIV, even though most folks will tell you that…

A Game Boy cartridge on which a small robot learns a maze by trial and error, inside the ROM itself, with no PC, no server and no stored answer.

PC A mistake I think I can be prone to is allowing perfection to be the enemy of good. Certainly not in my own actions, but in the games I’ll select for coverage on this site. Which feels like…

Jackbox, it's time to look at your back catalogue

Now with one-click UV tools, stacked UVs, joined faces, fill patterns, one-click per-face texel densities, noise and color jitter, tiled mode, shading, spray can, game engine integrations and more!…

My Bloomtown progress and Slay the Princess first impressions.

As promised in Part 1, here’s a post on polyforms made from half-weight tans on the tetrakis square grid. The pieces with three and four of these collectively have weight·area 16, so we get to…

What I saw at 11, what the Nintendo 64 was hiding from me, and what the Switch 2 remake will finally show☕ Found this article useful? You can support the blog by buying me a coffee on Ko-fi.

2026 has been a strange year for gaming for me. It has by no means been a bad year, it's actually been pretty stuffed to the brim with great stuff. Games like Denshattack, Pokemon Pokopia, and Rhythm…

On June 16, 2026, SpaceX announced it would acquire Anysphere, Inc, the parent company of Cursor, for $60 billion in stock.  A lot of people argued that Cursor wasn’t worth anywhere near that…

I built a little game one weekend of March 2018, and tweaked it a bit over a few weeks. I always meant to polish it further and release it, and since it is 2026, I am doing just the releasing ……