Splitting the majority of the puzzle gameplay off to Moonlight Museum puts Lunatea’s Veil in a position to carry forward the original game’s action elements, but Lunatea’s Veil…

Playing Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 lately, which is set on a seaside town, is reminding me of how nice the sea at night is. I've already talked about my relationship with being born on an island , so I…

Only one basketball session this week. I had the option to attend three but I'm trying to create a healthier balance between playing basketball and running. Ideally one that improves my fitness…

Hi readers (If there is any of you anymore that is), I've been preoccupied with the usual gloom, but like I have seen in my life so far, there is ups and there is downs in your life, so I'm probably…

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty (PC) — 8/10The game still looks incredible (I'm surprised how little of a difference it made when I had to disable ray-tracing for performance reasons) with monumental…

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 and Part 5 End of Garbage End of Garbage is a short, spooky first-person puzzle game made by a friend of mine. The demo is the first couple of puzzles, and give you a…

A relatively well-known quirk of Super Mario Sunshine is the interaction between Mario losing his hat and talking to NPCs. Losing his hat (through getting it stolen by the Swipin’ Stu enemies)…

I don't have a lot of comments for this session, it was very cool, very fun, and we made a lot of plans that are likely to bite us in the ass. Here's the log I made for it. As a reminder, our…

Concept from Ready Player One -- you enter a movie in VR and you have to play along as one of the characters in the movie, say the right lines, etc. Rick and Morty S8E7 ("Ricker Than Fiction")…

Late last year, I wrote about the state of interactive fiction. One issue I highlighted was a classic trap the GNU Project warned about: free software needs free documentation. While the Inform…

I have been a big fan of cryptic crosswords for several years (even if I am still really a novice), so here's my guide to how to get started with them! Tips Work with a friend - two heads are better…

The other day me and Gooseberry sat down to try playing Big Walk together. She mentioned wanting to try controlling it like I do, so I put her on the Switch2 in tabletop mode right next to me on the…

Once we have mouse movement, we can turn it into camera rotation. Our controller uses two separate rotations: rotate_y ( - event . relative . x * mouse_sensitivity ) camera . rotate_x ( - event .…

This a reply to blighttown on their post Bad posts on social media are probably part of what makes them addicting Some time ago I used to play PUBG. At first it started in mobile, but when my LG…

Steam got pissy about screenshot uploads to its own chat servers last night so imma chuck 'em all here with some comment to describe my third 'venture out in Walkabout, the Home of the colourful…

apparently its very easy to make games on grok now, I gave the generic prompt it provided and after cooking for a few minutes it spat out this game. although I feel odd taking any credit for making…

Encountered through the myth of The Shadow in Mythic Bastionland

In the third GrailQuest gamebook, Gateway of Doom , one of the new spells Pip is given in their Second Spell Book is Pip's Amazing Legume Spell, which will give an automatic Friendly Reaction from…

Only weeks after launch, EverQuest Legends players are already confronting progression exhaustion, social fragmentation, and a virtual world whose machinery has become visible far too quickly. The…

Players Polpo Rosso - Yours truly Davy Crabcakes - Princess Pizzabones Creel Crusher - Arkbrik Amby - Kirkatta Billy the Squid - GB Nilsson Chilli Con Carnage - Mister Jenx GM - Spuk Polpo Rosso's…

In this first post of what could become a new series, we are going to take a closer look at the intricacies, design philosophy and gameplay effects of the Recipe Book (and it’s limit) in Stars Reach.…

The leaked build of GTA 6 online is just fake data. Do not bother with this.

Hi y’all! Hope you’re doing well. So I like to play games solo, usually to learn a game before I bring it to the table with my friends or deep dive it in rapid succession while writing a…

I LOVE THAT I GET TO POST STUFF LIKE THIS!! Tonight we had game night at Jaime and Ben’s house, which is something we used to do when we started...

Playing StarGrave with my friends.

 In the classic planetary romance tradition of C.L. Moore and Leigh Brackett, the Solar System is littered with the bones of forgotten civilizations. These ancient burial sites, sealed vaults,…

Weird Keys, Weird Locks

A retrospective on building a deep multiplayer browser strategy game with AI, from a web developer who had never finished a game, and what it taught me.

This post has been mulling around in my brain for some months now. When Into the Oddish was Heistfunding, I came across an article that made me stop and pause. I can't remember how I stumbled upon…

By 2006, TOCA Race Driver 3 was compressing the per-track AI. The racing lines sit inside a pack whose first four bytes are JPAK. There is no public specification. I did not start by guessing the…

RPG A Day 22! For RPG a Day 2026 I'm creating a dungeon delving crew called the Deft Delvers . This is a company which enters dungeons to recover loot (pretty common trope in fantasy anime like…

Platform: PS5 🎮 Progress Playtime: 52 hours 💭 Today's Thoughts This game is absolutely fantastic. I love the music references, the mechanics, and how the more you progress, the more things you unlock…

ALT[Image description: 100% You did it! You made a perfect score. I’m very proud of you. Very good Catholic. Brag to your friends. You’re still in the running to become America’s Next Top Pope. End…

[MC Lothlorien, ZX Spectrum] Some three years ago, I played Ken Wright’s Pacific War (1983) and concluded thus: “It is by far the best ZX…

Finished an LP of Start Again Start Again Start Again: a prologue (In Stars and Time Demo) and played plenty of little games and read a few zines from Iceglobe System over on itch.io. Both were a…

La aplicación (o el juego) es un tocadiscos de escritorio, es decir, un reproductor musical que solo permite escuchar álbumes. No canciones sueltas, ni artistas completos, ni radios, ni listas. Hasta…

Time of Monsters is an original, pre-apocalyptic setting for horror game Fear and Panic . "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." -Antonio…

A look at Zelda, a look at the Mahabharata, a look at myself, and the realisation thereafter.

To my horror, I realize that 2026 is well over halfway done, while somehow also feeling like it's been about three years long. I figure it's once again time to write about some of the gaming that…

A year ago, I started a role-playing game campaign, grueproof, a close, long time friend with whom I've collaborated from time to time over the years. This isn't the first time we've tried to get a…

GLoG Style Roleplaying in the Lands of Hyrule

When it comes to gaming, I greatly prefer PC games as I feel I have more control. But recently I've gotten into a mood where I want to be able to play games on consoles that I never grew up with,…

In Vanilla Dome 2 in Super Mario World, there is an isolated square of ground tiles that is relatively easy to clip in due to Empty Blocks above it able to push Mario inside, as shown in the…

A friend of mine is going to one of those huge retro gaming fairs next month, the kind with hundreds of tables and a line before the doors even open. He knows I collect Rayman stuff and asked me the…

I managed to catch the photo mode pause just as a bunch of lightning bolts came down during a storm on the planet. Love the vibes.

What if we retired the 'should it be fantasy or science fiction' argument and did something different?

You have to really admire Shuouma’s dedication to not only bringing us new games to play online, but also to making sure every server is rock-solid, and in the case of today’s news,…

The world of Eco Mofos!! is, based on the rulebook by David Blandy, a broken, miserable and dangerous world. There are pockets of solace, the Punks, that have villages and travel across the lands.…

I have made this cheeky class on a lark. Their specialty is unfair advantages that would be cheating in any other circumstance. This is definitely metagaming. In the spirit of this character class, I…