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A leaderboard looks like a one-command problem: ZADD weekly 100 alice ZADD weekly 100 bob ZREVRANGE weekly 0 -1 WITHSCORES While building Podium , an …
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Rock paper scissors is secretly a distributed systems problem
Back in 2023 I built an online rock paper scissors game so my friends and I could settle arguments remotely. Open a room, send the link, best of three…
Building a Parking Puzzle in Unity: A Systems Breakdown of the Park Match Mechanic
Parking and matching puzzles look almost insultingly simple from the outside. A few cars, a cramped lot, tap or drag to move them out. But if you've a…
Building a Browser-Based Voxel Editor with React Three Fiber
I have been building VoxelDraft , a voxel editor that runs entirely in the browser without an account or installation. The editor supports block paint…
Building a browser game with client-side Groth16 proofs
A smart contract can't tell whether a submitted score came from a valid game or was simply made up. Dario Dash handles that by proving the run itself.…
I Built a 3D Game in Flutter — With No Game Engine
Everyone says the same thing: Flutter is for apps, not games. So I decided to find out where that's actually true — by building a 3D endless runner in…
Unity's Path to CoreCLR: What the Mono Cutover Means for Your Studio
Unity is replacing its scripting runtime. Not tweaking it, replacing it. The Mono runtime that has sat under every line of C# you have written in Unit…
Unity 6.5 Is Here: Should Your Studio Upgrade?
Unity 6.5 arrived in mid-June 2026, and if you skimmed the announcement you would be forgiven for filing it under "minor update." There is no single h…
Building a Private, On-Device AI Dungeon Master in the Browser
I’ve been spending the last few months wrestling with a specific constraint: how do you bring the generative power of large language models into a rea…
When I Used AI to Write an HTML Game but Was Forced to Learn WebGPU Compute Shaders
Here’s the thing. Last week I wanted to build a simple particle firework effect – the kind where you click the screen and hundreds of colorful particl…
A Transition Ledger for Debugging a Five-Wave Godot Dungeon Loop
Disclosure: I work with SEELE AI. This article describes a real internal Godot 4.6 Dungeon Master Tycoon prototype; it is not a public playable releas…
Building a real-time browser MMORPG with Three.js, Rust/Wasm, and Durable Objects
Realm of Echoes is a real-time 3D fantasy MMORPG that runs in a normal desktop browser tab. Players can choose a Warrior or Mage and enter as a guest,…
From Legos to Referees: A Brief History of How Online Games Actually Work
Have you ever wondered what’s actually happening behind the scenes when you're staring at a mobile loading screen, or why players suddenly "teleport" …
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…
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…
Unity Foundational Architecture: Smart Bootstrapping
Table of Contents: Introduction Understanding the Unity Initialization Lifecycle The RuntimeInitializeOnLoadMethod Attribute (And Its Limitations) The…
🎮 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…
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…
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 …
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…
Single-table DynamoDB design for a real-time game (rooms, rounds, leaderboards)
For the H0 Hackathon I built Kauwa Udd , a real-time multiplayer reaction game on Vercel + Amazon DynamoDB . People hear "DynamoDB" and reach for a ta…
Building Surf Rush: A Full-Featured Telegram Mini App Game with React, TypeScript & HTML5 Canvas
Building Surf Rush: A Full-Featured Telegram Mini App Game with React, TypeScript & HTML5 Canvas How I engineered a real-time endless runner with …
Hideo Kojima Predicted the AI Crisis in 2001 and We Weren't Paying Attention
⚠️ Spoiler warning: this post spoils significant plot points from Metal Gear Solid 1, 2, 3, and 5. If you haven't played them and plan to, bookmark th…
# ⚙️ I Spent Months Building a Pixel-Art Universe Called *Cog & Cosmos* 🌌
Every developer eventually faces a difficult choice: Build another to-do app. Or create an absurdly over-engineered game with eight interconnected wor…
Stop Benchmarking AI Coding Agents on Todo Apps. Make Them Build an MMO.
A coding agent that can scaffold a todo app is no longer interesting. Give it an MMO. An online world is not one feature. It is a collision between re…
Archive — A Narrative Investigation Game About Curating Human History
This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam Archive — The Last Historian of Humanity What if history wasn't discovered... but selected? Histor…
Heliograph — carry the light through the longest night, and finish a message a machine could never end
This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam Link to Game Home Page - here Link to Game Docs - here What I Built Heliograph is a short 2D solar…
AStarGrid2D in Godot 4: the gotchas, and an interactive sandbox
Godot's AStarGrid2D is a ten-minute read and a month of gotchas. The API page is small, you skim it, and then your path comes back empty, your units c…
Turing's Solstice – Decipher the Code. Control the Solstice.
This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam What I Built Turing's Solstice is an arcade runner that blends fast-paced action, logic puzzles, a…
🔐🌈Light Chaser: Decoding Lost Memories on the Longest Day of the Year🌞
This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam What I Built Light Chaser is a story-driven endless runner inspired by the June Solstice, Pride Mo…