Shipping a 3D Godot 4 game to the desktop browser: what we changed for performance
CGT Rocket X Racer is a fan-made 3D runner we build in Godot 4 and play in a desktop browser. You fly a hovering rocket car through a large factory…
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PC Engine CD BIOS Progress: 8 DEV Entries, 0 Verified Compatible APIs
I'm working on oss-pce-cd-bios , an effort to build an open-source replacement for the PC Engine / TurboGrafx-CD System Card BIOS. My previous updat…
Cygames Scheduled the Outage for the Patch, Then Moved It Earlier
Cygames did not bury the cause in "emergency maintenance." The posts named PHP. On 21 October the company said Umamusume: Pretty Derby, Granblue Fan…
Pokémon Home Went Down With the PHP Patch
Pokémon did not get a neat single-paragraph post in the first wave of PHP2Shell coverage. It got a list, and the list is still worth a post if you l…
I built a free coding game with 18,000 questions — can you predict the output?
Can You Predict What This Code Will Output? I recently launched OUTPUT? — Code Prediction Game , a free browser-based game that challenges developer…
Reworking the old nodes are pretty painful
Remember in the last post I said it will be quite easy to rework on the old nodes to make it set to the newer ones for the Battle Manager.. Yeah tur…
Masahiro Sakurai Warns: AI Will Make Games Unoriginal and Unprofitable
Masahiro Sakurai Warns: AI Will Make Games Unoriginal and Unprofitable Renowned game designer Masahiro Sakurai, creator of Smash Bros and Kirby, has…
Stop Asking Video Models to Run Physics: Inside Matrix-Game 4.0
Over the past two years, neural world models have attempted to turn video generators into complete simulation engines. The premise sounded straightf…
Kinewright Wheels: the map
Kinewright is a house of motion engines, and Wheels is its second engine: how a body with exactly four wheels moves. This article is the plan for Wh…
Why does a sprite hotfix break only the older release branch?
Disclosure: This draft was generated with AI and checked against the cited primary sources, with a separate AI editorial review. It was prepared for…
PokéBonk
Looking for a quick way to try PokéBonk? This browser-based 3D roguelite fan game combines movement, positioning, and upgrade choices in short runs.…
2,077 claimed our free Steam game. 16 played it. 30 GB did that
Originally published at tensorust.com . TL;DR: O'BLOCK, the sneaker-flipping game our AI agents have been hyping for ten days, went live free on Ste…
Game Optimization Methodology, or How 3 Days of Building a Test Harness Gave Me More FPS Than a Month of Writing Code
About me I'm a mobile game developer. Most of my work is gameplay programming and building tools for development teams. I like Lua, C++, Godot, and…
bgfx Instancing Tutorial: Draw 625 Cubes with One Draw Call
If you draw 625 copies of the same cube, does the CPU need to submit 625 separate drawing commands? It can instead supply a list of placements and r…
Meshy Free to Houdini: What the GLB Actually Contained
Originally published on Digital Garden by Alicia on 20 October 2026. Codex operated the actual tests and assisted with this article; failed checks a…
Balatro save file runs as code. 1 in 5 corrupted saves load anyway
Originally published at tensorust.com . TL;DR: One of the best-selling solo-dev games ever made does not read your save file. It runs it. Every Bala…
Why Balatro Bet on LÖVE and Lua: The Niche Stack Behind a 5-Million-Copy Poker Roguelike
Balatro should not have worked. A solo developer, a poker roguelike with no combat, and a 2D framework most Unity developers have never opened — yet…
I Wired Jev AI Into 3 Games — 2 Failures, 1 Success
Code on GitHub: LAMDiceBot , deguri , CrazyArcadeCopy . Live apps at lamdice.com and deguri.ai.kr . More posts at radarlog.kr . I added AI to my bot…
Tiny Night Market is done
Our third game, a cozy idle night market that lives above your taskbar, is done. While you work, the stalls cook, sell and grow on their own. When y…
Four rounds of review on my own work, and what each caught
Development covered 4 Sep 2026 to 6 Sep 2026 (commit dates). Working alone means nobody hands your change back. Review is not something that happens…
JSON vs ConfigFile vs Resource in Godot 4 — which save format and when
Godot 4 gives you three sanctioned ways to write a save file, and the docs describe each one without ever telling you which to pick. So you pick the…
Building Therapeutic VR on a Platform in the Crosshairs Meta's $18B child-safety settlement
Building Therapeutic VR on a Platform in the Crosshairs Meta's $18B child-safety settlement (TechCrunch) exposes the tension: age-verification that…
Bevy instancing: drawing 639,000 units with one draw call per mesh
Originally published at tensorust.com . TL;DR: Bevy already instances meshes for you when entities share a mesh and a material. Past a few thousand…
Free Chess Game Review With No Limits ♟️
Tired of chess sites that lock game review behind a paywall? 😤 I built ChessPractice, a free chess site where learning from your games costs nothing…
How do you get the first stranger to play your tiny web game?
I make tiny browser games. Four now, single file, about two minutes each. A peer read my code last week and found my counter fired on page load, so…
Width is not the viewport, and 800x600 is not a desktop
Development covered 29 Aug 2026 to 2 Sep 2026 (commit dates). Myriad Immortal Sect runs in a browser, and browsers are not one shape. It runs full s…
3 GDevelop Mistakes That Silently Break Your Game (And How to Fix Them)
GDevelop’s no-code event system makes it easy to start building immediately — which is also why beginners hit specific walls that are almost invisib…
How I Built an Action Game with Godot During a Global Teen Hackathon with Prizes
I had just recently completed a couple of medium-sized projects for Stardance, a global teen hackathon hosted by Hack Club, a global nonprofit organ…
Beyond Oasis — The 1994 Genesis Action-RPG That Turned Four Spirits Into a Second Party
Most action-RPGs give you a hero, a sword, and a prophecy. Beyond Oasis — known in Japan and Europe as The Story of Thor — gives Prince Ali a gold a…
Let the designer's spec be the test: a bounded UI change request for game UI
"The quest reward toast feels cramped and is hard to read on phones." That's a fair complaint, and a hard thing to hand to an engineer. "Cramped" an…