Anthony DiPerna

Side projects, game jams, and experiments from nights and weekends.

Tools

AI Spend Live

A local token intelligence dashboard for Claude and Codex usage logs. It surfaces burn rate, session concentration, model/provider split, biggest turns, API-equivalent usage, and limit drivers like long-running sessions, high-context work, and subagent-heavy workflows.

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Original Games

Space Taxi In Space

A love letter to the 1984 C64 classic. 10 themed levels, 4 characters based on real friends, procedural audio, slow-mo crash physics, ragdoll passengers, and a story about growing up told through a taxi game. ~5,500 lines of GDScript, zero sprites.

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Game Ports (Haxe/OpenFL to Godot 4)

Old game jam games resurrected and ported to Godot 4 for browser play with the help of AI coding tools. Full write-ups on the blog.

TappyPlane

A Flappy Bird clone from a 3-hour game jam. Ported with pixel-perfect polygon collision extracted from the original Nape physics data.

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QuickSki

A slalom ski game redesigned during the port -- forgiving flag collision, progressive speed ramp, and AI skiers that spawn mid-run.

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Snake

A 4-hour jam game expanded from 3 to 10 levels (7 procedural), with chiptune music, event-driven input, and pixel-styled graphics. Single 1,155-line GDScript file.

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Squirrel Defense

A tower defense game built from scratch -- protect a bird feeder from squirrels. 8 squirrel types, 8 bird species, 5 predators, 21 upgrades, procedural audio, day/night cycle. 4,900 lines, zero sprites.

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All Is Vanity: Chasing the Wind

An older side project – a dual-stick isometric action/arcade shooter built with HaXe and OpenFL, set in a surreal ancient Middle East. Wind-based physics, bullet-hell gameplay, and a story loosely inspired by Ecclesiastes.