All Is Vanity is a game I’ve been building on and off for years. It’s an isometric action RPG with a custom engine, physics, particle effects, a full UI system, save/load, and around 122,000 lines ...

Saturday I sat down with Claude Code (Opus 4.6) and decided to see how much I could get done in a day. The answer: a lot more than I expected. By the end of the day I had resurrected a dead website...

Back in the day I built TappyPlane for a 3-hour game jam. It was a Flappy Bird clone starring a little green plane dodging rock pillars — built with Haxe, OpenFL, and the Nape 2D physics engine. It...

I built a Snake game in 4 hours for a game jam back in 2014. Haxe, OpenFL, Flash target, 30 FPS. Three hand-crafted levels, frame-counter movement, bitmap tile rendering. It worked. Then it sat unt...

So say you run a game development website on a CMS that hasn't been maintained since the Obama administration. And say that website has been sitting on a shared hosting server, dutifully paying re...

QuickSki started life as a Haxe/OpenFL slalom game – ski downhill, thread gates, don’t hit trees. After porting TappyPlane to Godot 4, I gave QuickSki the same treatment. But this time, it wasn’t j...

Advent of Code 2021 was running and I had a few evenings free. I knocked out four days – the first three in Python for speed, and Day 10 in C because it was a perfect excuse to build a stack from s...

Every few years I go back to the fundamentals. Not because I’ve forgotten how merge sort works, but because implementing things from scratch in C forces a level of precision that higher-level langu...

After the last article, Nape and Barrage are integrated and running together, but we still have a few issues -- Mainly that both Nape and Barrage want full control over a bullet's properties, and o...

So now that we have implemented Barrage in the most basic manner possible, let's take a look at adding some new functionality.  Particle effects are great for graphic-only effects that do not inter...