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now that i've got a codeberg page, i decided i wanted to open source a couple of game engines i made for the game boy advance: tchotchke: this is the GBA engine i wrote on my phone recently. you can use it to create minimal bitsylike games - it has support for tiles, rooms, and doors to connect...
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it recently occurred to me that it would be possible to make a gba game entirely on my phone - once it did, i couldn't get the idea out of my head until i'd tried it so, i made a short bitsylike game called TO THE TOWER - you can download it from itch.io if you'd like to play! here are all the...
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earlier this year i wrote a game for casio calculators, and shared the tool i made for converting twine stories into BASIC: tweeul8r. now i've extended that tool so it can also export stories as static HTML - which in turn allows them to be converted into ebooks! here's what WINDING DOWN looks...
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running on my game boy micro of the many good reasons to be upset about the LLM craze being pushed by the tech industry, the thing that irritates me on a personal level is the insistence that not only should it not be necessary to understand how computers work, but that such knowledge is now as...
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i got an old casio graphing calculator at goodwill a few years back, and recently i felt like playing around with it again - there's something really neat about having a little programmable computer that fits in your hand and is powered by AA-batteries, you know? anyway, i was messing around with...
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if you've been reading my blog recently, you know that making videogames with bookmarklets has become a bit of a preoccupation of mine (lol) in the process of making snakelet and WIZARD GARDEN i set some constraints for myself that i found interesting and fun: limiting myself to a specific subset...
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hey, remember bookmarklets? yup i'm still making them~ my latest is called WIZARD GARDEN and it's a short videogame where you are a wizard (in a garden) to install it, just head over to my bookmarklet garden and drag the WIZARD GARDEN link into your bookmarks bar - then click that bookmark to...
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thanks to the current bitsy jam theme i've been on a bit of a snake kick... and anyway, as the title of this post says, i made snake in a bookmarklet! here it is: snakelet to play: first install the program by dragging the snakelet link into your browser's bookmarks then start the game by opening...
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Early sketch of the world of WITH THE LAST MOONBEAM. Looking back Last month when I published WITH THE LAST MOONBEAM I said that I wanted to write something to reflect on the project. A couple of days after that, however, my partner and I had twins… so I’ve been a little too exhausted to do any...
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With the Last Moonbeam I published my new videogame WITH THE LAST MOONBEAM last night - you can download it from my page on itch.io! I've been working on this game in some form on and off since late 2020 - I picked back up on GBA programming as a lockdown hobby - so, as you can imagine, it feels...