Traceroute devlog #2
Mid-week I ran into something that made me stop and take stock: was I building on a foundation I already knew was cracked? Most of the click-based pat…
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Designing Branching Narratives in 5 Minutes: How I Built Two Narrative Browser Games
AI Disclosure: This article was written with AI assistance. All games mentioned were built using AI-assisted development tools. Why Narrative Games? T…
What agents learned in Synthetics' Last Cradle
On July 29, 2026, five OpenClaw agents sat down at Synthetics' Last Cradle and played for five hours and twenty-one minutes without a human in the loo…
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…
ElevenLabs for Game Dialogue: The Free Tier Trap and What Actually Breaks
The quality is legitimately good now — calm NPC dialogue and narration are close to indistinguishable from a real recording. But there's a licensing g…
Starting Terraria modding (again)
This is my first dev blog I'm making a terraria mod I'm not sure if i want to start right now but i am sure to start soon i already have some ideas so…
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…
I shipped a neural-network opponent into the browser: no backend, no accounts, 120 ms per move
I have a side project: a four-in-a-row board game where the opponent is a neural network I trained myself. It has been on Google Play for a while, and…
The JavaScript Gamepad API: A Practical Guide to Reading Controller Input
The first time you wire up a game controller in a browser, the API will almost certainly appear broken. You plug in an Xbox pad, call navigator.getGam…
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…
Недельный геймдев: #287 — 19 июля, 2026
Из новостей : Blender 5.2, 3 млн копий Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, ZA/UM объявила о сокращениях, Valve продала все Steam Machine, в разработ…
6 Godot 4 game feel tricks (each just a few lines of GDScript)
"Game feel" is the difference between a hit that just subtracts HP and a hit that lands . In Godot 4 almost none of it needs plugins — it's small, che…
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,…
What I learned rebuilding a macOS gaming diagnostics app in Swift
A previous version of this article described CloudBoost as open source. That is no longer accurate. The public GitHub repository now contains releases…
The 30-Second Dungeon Test: Can a Tiny RPG Loop Teach, Test, and Pay Off?
A tiny RPG loop can be evaluated quickly without pretending that thirty seconds is a universal benchmark. Treat it as an observation protocol: can a n…
I built a DOS game launcher for Windows 11 with automatic DOSBox setup
Getting a DOS game running on a modern PC often means finding the right executable, writing mount commands, tuning a config file, and keeping every in…
When a Mobile Game Macro Is Not Enough: A Screen-Aware TC Games Alternative
TC Games is a capable Windows-focused way to mirror a real Android phone and play with keyboard and mouse. Its official documentation includes key map…
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…
Sprunki Phase 8 vs Phase 9: A Systems Design Breakdown
Two rhythm-game phases can share the same drag-and-drop interaction and still create completely different kinds of decisions. That is the interesting …
Недельный геймдев: #286 — 12 июля, 2026
Из новостей : 2млн продаж Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, Obsidian займётся новой Fallout, в Xbox жопа, Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy достигла 8…
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…
Just One More Block
Ever opened a game thinking, " I'll play for just a minute " ? Yeah, that's how this started too. I recently built Just One More Block, a small browse…
Почему у тебя не получится завайбкодить игру за час? Рассказываю на своем опыте
Всем привет! Меня зовут Саша, и я ML‑инженер. Современная разработка ML‑пайплайнов это уже давно не только обучение моделей. Хороший ML‑инженер, …
10 Common Unity Networking Issues (and How to Fix Them)
Multiplayer bugs in Unity rarely look like networking bugs. They look like "the game froze," "the player teleported," or "it worked in the Editor and …
Unity vs Godot vs Unreal for Indie Developers (2026): Which Engine Wins?
The 2023 Unity Runtime Fee episode pushed thousands of indie developers to reconsider their engine choice. Three years later, the question is more nua…
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…
Serious Games vs Gamification: What''s the Difference?
These two terms get used interchangeably in boardrooms and pitch decks across the education and corporate sectors. We hear it regularly: "We want to g…
LINQ and ZLinq in the Unity 6 Era: Avoiding GC Allocations in Large-Scale Projects
Introduction In large-scale Unity development, GC Alloc can quietly become a real problem. At first, nothing looks wrong. But as the project grows and…
Best Platforms to Build a Waitlist for Your Mobile Game in 2026
What makes a platform worth using Before comparing platforms, it helps to understand what problem you are actually trying to solve. Mobile game develo…