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What MasterMemory Solves—and What It Doesn't: A Practical Guide to Static Game Data in Unity

Introduction When you build games with Unity, you eventually run into the problem of managing static game data—often called master data in Japanese ga…

Sprunki Phase 8 vs Phase 9: A Systems Design Breakdown

Two rhythm-game phases can share the same drag-and-drop interaction and still create completely different kinds of decisions. That is the interesting …

Turn one devlog into posts for every channel with n8n + AI

If you're a solo game developer, you know the drill: you ship an update, write a devlog… and then you have to rewrite it four times. A punchy tweet. A…

Learn Emulators by Writing One CHIP-8 Instruction

Tiny Emulators is popular today because small systems make invisible computer behavior visible. You do not need to build a complete emulator to learn …

Co-Development vs Freelancers vs Full-Time Hires: Which Is Right for Your Studio?

At some point, every game studio faces the same question: we need more capacity, but how do we get it? The answer is not always obvious. Hiring full-t…

Why I'm Building in Public

For the past year, I've been building a Web3 project called BOINKO. Along the way I've learned something that applies to almost every software project…

Quick reminder: Stop putting heavy logic in Unity's Update()

If you are coming from pure script writing (like Python) to game engines, the Update() loop is a trap.🪤 Putting complex calculations there will destro…

Congrats to the June Solstice Game Jam Winners!

We are so excited to announce the winners of the June Solstice Game Jam , our celebration of the solstice and everything June represents: Pride, Junet…

Math Duel

hey! i made a math game where you can 1v1 random people online in real time. first to answer 5 questions correctly wins ELO — there's a leaderboard, p…

Couldn't find a complete Codenames Generator so I make one

I was on a trip with my friends and we wanted to play codenames, it wasn't impossible to balance the board on my lap so I looked for a simple generato…

Just One More Block

Ever opened a game thinking, " I'll play for just a minute " ? Yeah, that's how this started too. I recently built Just One More Block, a small browse…

Unity Foundational Architecture: Smart Bootstrapping

Table of Contents: Introduction Understanding the Unity Initialization Lifecycle The RuntimeInitializeOnLoadMethod Attribute (And Its Limitations) The…

10 Common Unity Networking Issues (and How to Fix Them)

Multiplayer bugs in Unity rarely look like networking bugs. They look like "the game froze," "the player teleported," or "it worked in the Editor and …

Every hand is solvable: engineering a block puzzle that never cheats

Block puzzles — the 8×8 "place three pieces, clear lines" genre — share a dirty secret: sometimes the game simply deals you pieces that cannot fit any…

🎮 Building a Top‑Down Action Game with the Limn Engine

🎮 Building a Top‑Down Action Game with the Limn Engine A complete, line‑by‑line tutorial Live demo: limn-engine-doc.vercel.app/test11.html 📖 Introduct…

Building a transparent Roblox value calculator workflow without pretending live prices

I have been building LootKit , a small unofficial Roblox utility site for value references, W/F/L checks, mutation calculator workflows, and theme too…

I Looked at My Game's Stats and Realized People Almost Can't Beat the Bots

Quick disclaimer: nothing is rigged. Bots don't get lucky dice rolls and have no hidden advantages. Everything available to a human is available to a …

Unity vs Godot vs Unreal for Indie Developers (2026): Which Engine Wins?

The 2023 Unity Runtime Fee episode pushed thousands of indie developers to reconsider their engine choice. Three years later, the question is more nua…

Cross-Platform Multiplayer Networking in Unity: FishNet, Mirror, and Photon Compared

Choosing a networking framework for a Unity multiplayer game is one of the most consequential technical decisions you will make. It affects architectu…

Serious Games vs Gamification: What''s the Difference?

These two terms get used interchangeably in boardrooms and pitch decks across the education and corporate sectors. We hear it regularly: "We want to g…

I Almost Didn't Build Beta Gamer

The real story behind building a multiplayer game API from Cameroon - the failed 3D game, the financial pressure, the nights I almost quit, and why I …

Ease Comes After

While some people have been thriving, not everyone has been finding Easel easy to learn. Here is why that is and what we are doing about it. Simple vs…

Cocos Creator 3.x Debugging: 17 Skills the Gray Screen Won't Tell You About

I've been debugging Cocos Creator 3.x for months. The gray screens, the corrupt scenes, the CLI builds that fail with cryptic errors. Each time I fixe…

LINQ and ZLinq in the Unity 6 Era: Avoiding GC Allocations in Large-Scale Projects

Introduction In large-scale Unity development, GC Alloc can quietly become a real problem. At first, nothing looks wrong. But as the project grows and…

Ah the joy of shipping, my new game MooFO is out on the Web thanks to itch.io and now to complete the standalone. Then, on to the next project! Play for free at https://peterwitham.com/moofo

HellYah A First-Person 2.5D Survivor Game

Hi everyone ! Arifandi Tanggahma/Jangkrik Here, iam a indie game developer based on Indonesia , nice to meet you! I've just released Hellyah , a first…

What I Learned Reading Unity's BuildReport After Building 16 APKs

Build Analyzer series, article 2. In the previous article , I built 16 Android APKs while changing one variable at a time. After that, I had the APK n…

How I Built a Zero-Friction Browser Gaming Platform (Zero Sign-Ups, Zero Downloads)

I built GameDeck — a gaming platform where you pick a badge, type a name, and play. That's it. No accounts, no launcher downloads, no tracking. Here's…

Best Platforms to Build a Waitlist for Your Mobile Game in 2026

What makes a platform worth using Before comparing platforms, it helps to understand what problem you are actually trying to solve. Mobile game develo…

Four Rules, Infinite Worlds: Building Conway's Game of Life from Scratch

Conway's Game of Life is the most famous program that isn't really a game. There's no player, no score, no way to win. You draw a few cells on a grid,…