Welcome to your one-stop-shop for half-baked and very-late ideas. Here’s your order: Mario Movie Tomorrow (technically today since I’m writing past 12 PM,) Nintendo will reveal the first trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie. We know little about the movie so far, aside from its cast and this poster…

Welcome back to the blog that sometimes meets its deadlines. But only sometimes. A peak behind the curtain: Tauriel Teaches Typing Lately, I’ve been getting nostalgic for Tauriel Teaches Typing. So, I thought it would be fun to take a look at how some of the things in that game were implemented. The game has two main parts…

Let’s get to it. Internet Vibes I’ve been thinking about what I want this blog series to be about. I originally envisioned these blog posts being high effort affairs, with lengthy essays about game design and other topics. In practice, I’ve found that I couldn’t find the motivation to write those lengthy…

If you want to learn how to make a WebAssembly game, you’ve come to the right place. But what is “WebAssembly,” and why would we want to make games using it? Let’s start by briefly discussing the history of multimedia on the World Wide Web. Crash history of interactive multimedia on the web When Tim Berners-Lee first described…

Let’s play a game. It’s called “pretend this blog post came out a day earlier, and it’s still May.” Okay? Cool. How to make an okay-ish Webassembly game For a while, I’ve been promising people that I’d make a tutorial series on how to make a game in Webassembly using Emscripten. However, this has always come with…

So, I kind of felt bad for making March’s blog post super short. This time, I’m going to make things a bit longer. It was still written in one day, though. Maybe I’ll properly schedule time for May’s post, since I’ll be out of school? IDK. Gameplay Loops Recently, I saw a…

This is going to be a short one. Probably because I wrote it all in one night. Life keeps me busy, I guess. Adventures in spam Over the past month or so, I’ve been getting a lot of spam emails. You’d think that these sorts of emails would try to appear legitimate. The…

Welcome to my first monthly blog post! Let’s begin: Blog Post Format Last time, I laid out a particular format for these blog posts. In particular, I promised a “short essay” about video games and their development, followed by status updates and recommendations. The more I thought about it, though, the less appealing…

It’s been another six months, so I think it’s time for yet another update on the status of my video game related projects. Let’s start. N Step Steve: Part 2 Before we get into the current state of N Step Steve, I’d like to discuss the way the two parts of it are structured. N…