How game platforms turn safety rules, creator economics, and brand fit into growth across Roblox, Fortnite, EA, and Tebex. The post Game Platforms Grow Only When People Trust the Rules appeared first…

El precio es alto, pero está justificado. No deja de ser un PC, y un producto de lujo, a fin de cuentas.

Rail shooters are something I don’t normally care for, but with two exceptions so far. One is Rez, Sega’s music themed rail shooter, for its brilliant use of minimalist visuals and music integration.…

As expected v0.8.0 introduced a bug with the save game editor. Thanks to a player that reported the reproducible bug, I was able to fix it already. So this version brings two bug fixes and small…

If you look back at the "cardboard starship" tag, you'll see there have been a couple of previous builds... and #3 was never updated. That's because I never finished it. I was unhappy with the foam…

Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module…

The 2026 edition of the XPEL Grand Prix at Road America is now in the books. It was the most intriguing IndyCar race held here since the series returned to this massive 4.088-mile track in 2016.…

Describe monsters instead of labelling them so every encounter with a monster is a unique and fresh experience. Ogres are scary. Even if a player watched previous characters battle ogres twenty times

I don’t know if you play video games, but it’s likely you enjoy games in one form or another. Maybe you play a cozy game on your phone, a card game on your work computer (definitely only during…

Article about my fourth NetHack ascension.

"Caning" or "Gicking" is what happens when a person reaches a critical mass of arcane or magical energies from casting spells, from which there is no return. It is a serious concern, given that the…

Well, politics aside I thought I'd talk about my game engine and some of the new terrain systems I'm working on. There have been a couple of images and videos on the old YouTube channel with some of…

On not using the wargaming mechanics in Baseline Drift.

Here are the Pokémon that can learn two of the most popular weather-setting moves in the game.

The latest State of Unreal happened at Unreal Fest and, as I had a feeling would happen, the other shoe of Epic’s grand plan has finally dropped. Unreal Engine is about to change. Significantly.…

A June solstice game jam submission — balance day and night, earn wanderer identities, and get every scene narrated on-device by Gemma 4 through Chrome and WebGPU. No server, no API key.

Once a month my coworkers and I play a game together. This is the story of a game that I worked on for 47 days, a game meant to be played for only 30 minutes at one of those sessions. My turn to host…

Fun is where the magic is.

We just witnessed our eleventh straight IndyCar race (twelfth, if you count the 2020 double-header), and I can honestly say I’ve never seen a wilder race at Road America than the one we saw this…

Whenever I’m about to get really busy, I decide to take a sunday and cram it full of as many video games as possible, even though I know I’m not going to be able to finish them all in a…

An alternative English Calendar Cube design from lucapri can display any date on a cube.

It's very likely you've never played my favorite RPG. Probably you haven't even heard of it yet because it's still in development. It's called Orbital Megastructure and it's by the inimitable,…

I'm back for another sporadic review! As I've mentioned before, I'm running fewer one-shots and short games this year, so these reviews will be for medium to long campaigns. This time I revisited…

STEAM NEXT FEST AYYYYYY WHY IS THERE SO MANY AI SHIT IN THERE At least, this makes it easier to avoid downloading too many demos, but it does suck for the little guy who made a legit game and is…

I remember reading about Claude playing Pokemon Red when Sonnet 3.7 was released and thinking to myself "this is the wrong way to 'solve' Pokemon". An LLM taking pixel images as input and spitting…

Last month I saw a reference to the "You Cannot Play This TTRPG Jam": This is a game jam for games that do not exist. They won't ever exist. They will never be playable. They will suggest a game,…

I really enjoy random tables in my sessions. I enjoy them for the potential narrative elements they can add and I enjoy seeing how a story unfolds just as much as the players do and it’s super extra…

When Sean McCoy proposed the Dungeon23 project , I couldn't help but join in. I wrote two dungeons--one for His Majesty the Worm and one for Under Hill, By Water . This effort eventually went on to…

its a good thing i barely need sleep :D

Dear readers, I am happy to announce the release of Don Matrelli’s Legacy . It is a mod for Grand Prix Circuit (DSI / Accolade, 1988), one of the best motor racing games available for DOS before…

We’ve seen a few test PCBs now; games that were only sold alongside Japanese arcade cabinets to satisfy a law requiring a minimum amount of functionality. Sega gave us Dottori-kun, a remake of…

The RAF Red Arrows are in America to support celebrations of 250 years of America's declaration of independence. So, I followed in FlightGear.

As far as melonDS is concerned, my last work was all about CPU timings... and I couldn't yet find an elegant way to handle them. I had some kind of caching in mind, but it's still less than ideal.…

Grass & Rubble was once named Automatic Wasteland and it came out of a playtest right at the height of 2020 covid. The concept changed over the years but the core persisted. My goal isn't to create a…

Do you remember the Hidden Fog Update for the Stars Reach pre-alpha playtest last December? In case you’re a bit foggy on the details: It completely removed the fog that was added to the game…

An order of machines kept at prayer. Nahal is a monastery run by AI, and once it is running it keeps itself. The front of it is a dark, low-poly cloister you can walk: a gold altar under a wireframe…