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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
Reading a locked Pet Index: verifying 199 Roblox pets without unlocking them
Steal An Egg is a Roblox game where you steal eggs, hatch pets, and the pets earn money every second. How much a pet earns depends on its base incom…
From 63 seconds to 60: checking a game trailer against its timeline and video files
Even a short game trailer fills up quickly with a title, combat, upgrades, bosses, and a destination to play. Removing a few seconds at the end does…
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…
7 Godot 4 melee attack mistakes (and the fix for each)
A melee attack in Godot 4 looks like a ten-minute job: put an Area2D on the sword, listen for area_entered , subtract health. Then you playtest. The…
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…
Godot Movie Maker and screenshots on macOS without --headless
I wanted Godot to write screenshots and short videos from a script on my Mac, the way it does in CI on Linux. Godot 4.7.1 on macOS 26.5.2 can't do i…
1,826 draw calls to put 61 objects on the screen
Development covered 15 Aug 2026 to 17 Aug 2026 (commit dates). Players of Myriad Immortal Sect walk a continent that streams in around them as they…
Sinete: a 2-player bluffing card game in Godot 4.6, and what I learned making it (looking for Android testers)
I'm Rapha, a solo dev from Brazil. Sinete is a 2-player bluffing card game made in Godot 4.6, and it's in closed testing on Google Play right now. I…
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…
Claude Code ran for 19 hours 53 minutes without stopping. Here's the setup that made it possible
Someone tell me: where is Claude Code's ceiling? Lagos Life blew up on Oct 1. Everyone in Nigeria was playing it. I wondered: could one person and a…
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…
Worms Armageddon another one in browser
I wanted to see how close I could get to the feel of Worms Armageddon in a browser, so I built Worms.js. It has Bazooka and Grenade, destructible te…
Why Your FiveM MLO Causes Texture Loss (and How to Check Before You Install It)
If you run a FiveM roleplay server, sooner or later a player reports that the city "goes blurry" or that textures pop in around a certain building.…
I turned my terminal game into an isometric world (plain SVG + Vue, no game engine)
DockerLinux is my free browser game for learning Linux and Docker in a simulated terminal. Until this week it was one terminal and a list of levels.…
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…
Fixing 'previously freed instance' errors in Godot 4 combat code
Combat is where Godot 4 projects start crashing for the first time. Everything works until two things die in the same frame, or a homing bullet outl…
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…
BeeEngine 2.9: plugins are here, starting with BeeLocale 🌍
Starting with v2.9.0 , BeeEngine supports plugins. The engine stays "blind": it doesn't import or know anything about any plugin. Each plugin hooks…
Let the player build the maze - a 576-cell flow field for a tower defense map
Most tower defense maps give enemies a fixed lane. In one map of Void Parry 's tower-defense mode, "Null Grid", there is no lane at all: an open 32x…
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…
Monthly Game Reports — Merge One PDF or ZIP Separate Files
A monthly game report is rarely one document. Finance owns the revenue pages, live operations owns event results, and player support owns moderation…
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…
Kubiverse: Explore Your Kubernetes Cluster as a Voxel World
What would a Kubernetes cluster look like if you could walk through it? Kubiverse turns namespaces, workloads, pods, and nodes into a pixel-art 3D w…
Building ShipCheck: a static preflight scanner for Unity projects
How I went from noisy project scanning to shipping graphs, confidence-aware readiness, and legacy Unity support. Building ShipCheck: a static prefli…