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For a while I was reviving my boredom with programming by trying to develop games seriously. It was fun for a limited time but I do find that life is better when I'm not obsessed with pouring all my time and energy into gamedev. I might make a small game again one day but no plans yet.

  1. How to Make Simple Lighting in Defold
    You gonna learn some OpenGL today.
  2. A Summer of Gamedev Burn Out
    It's become the Summer of falling out of love with gamedev for me or maybe it's just another temporary round of significant burn out. In this post, I'll show you thoroughly with lots of clips what unfinished thing I built this Summer.
  3. Untitled Adventure in Cute Fantasy Farm?
    A playable feedback request version is available today.
  4. Super Shirtless Guy World Postmortem
    Basically no one understands it or likes it. In this post I'm going to try to cope but also figure out how I might avoid several pitfalls in the future.
  5. Using Tiled Object Layers with Defold Tilemaps
    I'm going to show you how I set object spawn positions in Tiled, export them effortlessly, and load them with Defold.
  6. Started A New Platformer Prototype
    Code Name: Warriors and Wizards
  7. Fester's Torment Version 2.0 Beta Release
    Available on Windows, Mac, and Linux
  8. My Complete Defold Render Script
    A Walkthrough for the Frustrated Render Pipeline Spelunker
  9. Throw Your Game in the Trash Thursday
    Some updates on my game that have made me need a break.
  10. Setting Up a Sound Controller in Defold
    I tried various approaches to managing sounds in Defold and learned what works. Here’s the distilled version.
  11. Is This a Fester's Quest Spiritual Successor?
    Introducing my Game, Fester's Torment
  12. How I Accidentally Built 4 Games While Avoiding Work
    These small projects were just an excuse to break out of the usual web development tasks and experiment with something fun.