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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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…
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…
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…
Building a No-Framework Solitaire Portal: What I Learned Shipping 15 Card Games Without React
The constraint that shaped everything When I started building a solitaire portal, I gave myself one rule: if a feature does not need a server, it do…
Sirius Gameplay Reveal, PVP Arena Mode & Kickstarter Launch!
Hello again everyone! 👋 It's been a crazy week! After previously showcasing Aether (the 6-DOF movement framework powering Sirius ), I'm finally read…
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…
Keeping an archived 800-star Roblox tool alive: MultiAlt, in Rust and Tauri
The original Roblox Account Manager by ic3w0lf22 helped millions of players run several Roblox accounts on one PC: its last release has over 2 milli…
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…
PondMath
I recently built PondMath , a free browser game that turns mental math practice into a small frog adventure. The basic idea is simple: Solve a math…
I built a browser arrow puzzle game with randomized runs and unlockable abilities
I’ve been working on a browser puzzle game called Arrow Game . You can play it here: https://arrowgame.app/ The basic rule is simple: each arrow can…
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…
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 built a music-looping tool for TTRPGs and game prototypes with Python and Web Audio
The boss finishes their speech. Your players reach for their dice. This is where the music should kick in… …and nothing. Instead, the track enters a…
Beyond Development: The Business Challenges Facing Today’s Indie Game Studios
There is a side of indie game development that rarely receives the same attention as programming, game design, art direction, level design, or produ…
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,"…
I rebuilt my 2018 agar.io clone around real orbital physics, with no game server
In 2018 I spent a weekend making an agar.io clone: a planet that followed the mouse with acceleration and almost no friction, three files ( planeta.…
Why I built Animal Sudoku without a single ad
Screen time for children is broken. Most free games trade a childs focus for ad revenue. Flashing banners and loud interruptions shatter concentrati…
Your GDScript arrays are slower than you think — I built a CLI that detects the pitfalls and benchmarks them
"Why is my enemy loop stuttering? I'm not even doing anything heavy here." Every Godot tutorial tells you to just use arrays. Nobody tells you that…
Modern GLSL Shader Development in Zed & VS Code: Zero Setup, Real-Time Diagnostics
Writing GLSL shaders often feels like stepping ten years back in time compared to modern web or backend development. Whether you are targeting moder…
I built a free, no-login daily word puzzle (Connections-style) where players make their own boards
If you've played the New York Times' Connections, you know the loop: 16 words, sort them into 4 hidden groups of 4, don't blow your 4 mistakes. It's…
Building a Browser Game with Astro, Cloudflare Workers, and a Verifiable D1 Leaderboard
A browser game can calculate a score entirely on the player's device. A public leaderboard needs a different answer to the question: why should the…
How to Find Missing Scripts in Unity Prefabs Before They Break Your Build
How to Find Missing Scripts in Unity Prefabs Before They Break Your Build A missing script on a Unity prefab is easy to ignore during development. T…
Building NICHLYST: The 14-Day Clock, the "Web App" Illusion, and Hardening the Archive
On September 10th, at 10:19 AM, the system finally turned green. 12 Testers Google Play Twelve confirmed, opt-in testers. The threshold is met. The…
I built Sudoku Fun4Kids – a child-friendly Sudoku app with Flutter for Android, iOS and Windows
I recently released Sudoku Fun4Kids , a Sudoku and logic game designed specifically for young children. Traditional 9×9 Sudoku can be too complex fo…
How I Built a Fast, Clean Wiki & Database for Steal an Egg
Introduction Start with the problem. Mention that you wanted to dive into the Steal an Egg gaming community, but existing resources were cluttered w…
I made an agent play Slay the Spire 2 on its own — and what unlocked it was the game saying 'no'
I made an agent play Slay the Spire 2 on its own — and what unlocked it was the game saying 'no' On 08/09/2026, an agent played an entire solo comba…
Building Galactic Idle: Our First Public Balancing Pass
We recently released the first public build of Galactic Idle , a browser-based sci-fi strategy game about resource management, research, fleets, and…
Building NICHLYST: Explosions, Medication, and Rewriting 15 Days as a Novel You Can Fail
On Saturday evening, August 29th, I was lying on my sofa after eating way too much watermelon. I was taking a short break from writing the narrative…