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…
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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…
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…
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…
34.8k Stars Won't Put GTA VI on Your PC. Here's What AnyPS5 Is Actually Doing
Seeing GTA VI run on a PC before the official port would be a spectacular way to end the console exclusivity argument. So a project that promises to…
Gamification in Corporate Training: Beyond Compliance Checkboxes
A common failure mode in corporate e-learning is optimising for completion rather than competence. Employees click through slides, pass a short quiz…
Недельный геймдев: #296 — 11 октября, 2026
Из новостей : Machinarium 2, продажи Star Wars Zero Company превысили 1 миллион копий, Google запустил Playground, Denuvo обратилась в суд, альфа Un…
Running Unity 6000.x Headless Builds in a Linux Container: A Field Report (Including Licensing Workarounds)
Running Unity 6000.x Headless Builds in a Linux Container: A Field Report (Including Licensing Workarounds) Status: REVISED 2026-10-10 — every techn…
FiveM Script Performance Budgeting: Keeping Resmon Under Control
Most FiveM performance problems are not caused by one terrible script. They are caused by forty reasonable ones, each doing a little bit of work eve…
Why We Treat Static HTML as a Graph: 3 Insidious SSG Traps ESLint Can't Catch
Every production frontend pipeline has the usual suspects: TypeScript in strict mode, ESLint, Prettier, maybe a Playwright smoke test, and a Lightho…
5 Signs You Need a Co-Development Partner
Nobody starts a game studio planning to ask for help. You build your team, define your vision, and set out to deliver something great. But game deve…
I Built a Full PWA Game in One Day with Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Code (Here Is the Real Token Cost & Harness Setup)
On a Sunday, I turned a slightly silly idea into an actual game: Montanha: Zero Day , a cyberpunk platformer in the style of Mega Man X that runs in…
The Goblin Warren: an AI Dungeon Master that never invents a rule
What I built The Goblin Warren is a browser D&D 5e dungeon crawl. You lead three heroes through five levels and fight in turn-based d20 combat w…
I Built an Atari 2600 Game From Scratch in 2026 — Here's What the TIA Taught Me
Last week I set out to build the simplest possible Atari 2600 game: a title screen, a blinking dot you can move with the joystick, and walls to keep…
If someone might want it different, it should not be a literal
Development covered 2 Aug 2026 to 6 Aug 2026 (commit dates). The rule this project has settled on is one question. Could somebody reasonably want th…
Local-first saves and deciding which copy of the truth wins
Development covered 2 Aug 2026 to 4 Aug 2026 (commit dates). An idle game has to run on the player's device. The loop ticks while they are looking a…
UE5 Shader Optimization: Materials, Custom HLSL, and Global Shaders with RDG
When a material graph grows in Unreal Engine 5, it is tempting to ask: would writing HLSL directly make it faster? Would implementing the shader in…
Building Accessible Games: WCAG for Interactive Content
Accessibility in games is not charity work. It is sound engineering, responsible design, and increasingly, a contractual requirement. When public in…
Guide to Developing Educational Games with Unity for Beginners
A Pedagogy-First Architecture: From Minimum Viable Lessons to Modular C# ScriptableObjects EDUCATIONAL GAME ARCHITECTURE & UNITY GAME DESIGN Cap…
Multiplayer Game Development with TypeScript, Phaser, Socket.io, and MongoDB
Game data rarely looks the same for very long. A player document might start out with just a username and a score, and a few sprints later, it needs…
I asked Claude Opus 5.5 for "Need for Speed" in one sentence. Here's the playable game and the $0.64 bill
I wanted to know how far one casual sentence to an AI model gets you in game dev. The answer is Kartit Nitro , a Need for Speed style racer that run…
From Tiled to PixiJS and back: editable maps in TypeScript
Open a map in Tiled. Build a bridge in the browser. Open the changed map in Tiled again. I'm working on pixi-tiledmap , a TypeScript library for loa…
Pelican vs Reviactyl v26: Which Pterodactyl Successor Should You Choose in 2026?
Pterodactyl changed the game for self-hosted game server management. For years, it has been one of the most recognizable open-source panels for mana…
Game Development Budget Breakdown: Where Does the Money Go?
One of the most common questions we hear from clients is deceptively simple: "How much will my game cost?" The honest answer is always "it depends,"…
Cross-Platform Save Systems: Cloud Sync Done Right
Few systems in game development are as universally needed - and as consistently underestimated - as save data management. When your game lives on a…
Two Godot Games, Two Visual Identities, One Hard Lesson About Polish
A solitaire card can work perfectly and still look wrong. That was the uncomfortable part of building Glimmerbook Solitaire. The rules were there. T…
Building NICHLYST: Eight Waves, One Canon — How 40 Days of Script Survived a Strict State Machine
It is Monday, September 21, 2026. Day 11 of the 14-day Google Play closed testing anabiosis. The clock runs on Google's terms, not mine. Outside the…
What Is EvoWild Run Actually Supposed to Be?
In the previous post, I wrote about how a horse-racing idea gradually turned into a game about fictional creatures, breeding, lineage, and racing: W…
We Built an Arcade for Our Own Game Engine
Or: how I spent three months using the platform we built at Evolved Tech, noticing what was broken, and refusing to stop Kehinde Owolabi founded Evo…
I built 30+ free browser tools for pixel artists in a weekend — here they are
I built 30+ free browser tools for pixel artists in a weekend — here they are I'm LaunchTower. Over the past few weeks I've been building a catalog…