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game dev

Every volatile article about game dev: practical deep dives, notes and working code.

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  1. Idlescape: the game I am building right now

    My main project at the moment: a big, lore-driven idle game inspired by RuneScape, with dungeon crawling, lots of skills and monsters I modelled myself.

    1 min read · game dev · idle game · pixel art · 3d

    Idlescape in the browser: the Woodcutting skill screen with tree tiers, a skills sidebar and the game menu
  2. My Labubu - Care & Play: a game for Android

    A multi-game, tamagotchi and Pou inspired Labubu care-and-play game for Android. Version 2.0 just shipped, adding the care side that ties every mode together.

    1 min read · game dev · android · mobile games

    My Labubu Trick Treat banner: a fluffy brown Labubu in front of a jar of round Labubu faces, under the game's logo
  3. Ninja Trials: a game for a dojo that closed

    A board game inspired by Club Penguin's Fire Dojo. I wanted to play it again, but Club Penguin closed years ago, so I made my own.

    1 min read · game dev · board game · web game

    Ninja Trials start screen: a parchment scroll with opponent count, colour choice, How to Play and Start Game
  4. Bringing Warrior Epic back from the dead, one packet at a time

    Warrior Epic's servers went dark around 2010. These are my running notes on building a local server so the original client can be played again, offline.

    18 min read · reverse engineering · game dev · networking · windows sandbox

    A warrior fighting an Aberasian Warrior in a jungle ruin, in front of the stub server and game server logs
  5. The same game, twelve years apart

    I rebuilt my high school Pokémon browser game in Vue, with multiplayer, chat and PVP, and still no game engine. Here is what twelve years changed.

    1 min read · game dev · vue · multiplayer · typescript

    PokeWorld in the browser: a pixel-art map with tall grass, the PC storage window, a chat box and a party of two
  6. Bubble TD: one more game jam

    What we made for Global Game Jam 2025. It runs in the browser, the code is open source, and it will definitely have bugs.

    1 min read · game dev · game jam

    Bubble TD: enemies follow a winding path through a low-poly field, with shooter, shotgun and sniper towers to buy