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…
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…
3D гоночки от GLM 5.3 Flash с нулевым уровнем размышлений
Простите, что без пафоса. Просто сидел на созвоне и увидел, что в OpenCode раздают бесплатные китайские нейронки GLM 5.3 Flash и DeepSeek 4.1 Flash.…
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…
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…
Claude Code can write your game. Can it make the rest of it?
A coding agent can write a lot of a game today: the player controller, the menu logic, the save system. Then you need a mascot, a coin sound, a back…
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…
120% прокачка beamNG
Когда-то давно я горел игровой физикой: писал свои игровые физические движки, физику авто и самолета. И уменя была мечта - сделать физику разрушаемы…
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…
24 people read about my game. One pressed start.
I built a 40-second browser game. One input: hold to shut your eyes and vanish; let go to walk and be seen. Morning light is the timer. Reach the do…
I added a tiny card shooter to a retrospective tool 🎯
You know that moment before a meeting when someone says, “Let’s give everyone another minute”? I gave that minute a tiny game. I’m building Agilo, a…
Google introduces Playground, which creates games from descriptions
Google Labs’ experimental Playground generates browser-playable games from conversational descriptions. Users can refine them with follow-up instruc…
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…
Six ways an auto clicker gives itself away, using nothing but timestamps
I run a small click speed test, CPSBench . Once a site has a leaderboard, the first entries that look too good arrive almost before the real ones do…
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…
Retention lessons from building a daily puzzle (the streak is not the feature)
Daily puzzles look like a solved design problem: one board, one day, come back tomorrow. Having built one, I think most of the retention advice abou…
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…