I'm Making A Podcast About Game Programming
October 7, 2024Announcing my new podcast "Game Data" that features deep-dive interviews with game creators about how they program and manage data in their games
Committing C# Crimes to Provide Better ECS APIs
July 11, 2024On figuring out how to bridge the GameObject/ECS divide by leverage attributes, partials, and source generators.
Introducing Mood.site
March 11, 2024Leveraging Spite-Driven Development to make a zero friction image sharing site
Building a Web Framework with C# records, Tailwind and HTMX (and no JS)
February 9, 2024Goblin-mode-ing C#'s type system and record syntax to render a webpage
Fixing Discourse Restore dump.sql.gz Errors For Mismatched tar/gz files
January 24, 2024Zipping your tars or tar-ing your zips?
So You Wanna Package Some Native Libs Into A NuGet Package
January 21, 2024Into the depths of csproj and NuGet package management
First Impressions of Disney's Lorcana TCG
September 15, 2023Thoughts and impressions after a few rounds of playing Lorcana
Cultivating A Space For The Doing
May 16, 2023An average Tuesday begets strangely connected threads
Breaking the Cycle - The Potential of Creative AI in Game Development
April 26, 2023Game development is in crisis. Can creative AI tooling save it?
Simple Echo Example for Discord.Net Bot
March 17, 2023Quick fix on getting a Discord bot to echo in Discord.Net
Low-Level Interop and Memory Management in C# for Allocation-free P/Invoke Code
March 13, 2023An introduction to low-level C# and figuring out if any idiomatic patterns exist for working with native memory.
FMOD Crashing with Programmer sound callback is not set for instrument error
March 1, 2023Debugging some FMOD interop stuff
Heisenfunctions, Incremental Determinism, and The Future of Programming
January 8, 2023Exploring what it could mean to program with GPT from the very start
Talking To Machines, Or "Serendipitous Prompting for AI Image Generators"
October 24, 2022Talking about how Midjourney has changed how I approach creative work.
Finding answers to difficult questions
October 20, 2022Exploring what to do when you're trying to find answers to hard technical problems on the internet, and all the usual options aren't working.
Nostalgia and the Triforce% Run
September 28, 2022Musing on speedrunning's relationship to games and the production of "new" nostalgias
Midjourney Changed My Mind on AI-Generated Art
June 24, 2022Experimenting with Midjourney to create concept art
Game Design Mimetics (Or, What Happened To Game Design?)
June 9, 2022Exploring recent trends in game design to try and figure out why everything is Fine and why that's terrible.
New Laptop Whomst This?
April 3, 2022Configuring a new Macbook Pro for 2022 for game development + video editing
Reflecting on using 2D in Unity in 2021/2022
February 16, 2022Reflecting on using Unity for a large scale 2D project
I Guess I'm Making A Game Engine...
February 25, 2021Towards a fresh, new way of making games in C# and Dotnet
Using Unity's New 2D Animation System for Traditional Sprite Animation
February 23, 2021Using SpriteLibrary and SpriteResolver to reduce redundant work
Troubleshooting MacOS APFS FileVault Permissions De-Sync During High Sierra to Big Sur Update
February 1, 2021Fixing a machine on the brink of disaster
A History of Civilization Beyond Sid Meier's Memoir
December 5, 2020Extra reading and listening for people who want to know more about the history of *Civilization*
Thoughts on Promesa
November 28, 2020Diving into how Promesa uses the language of game engines and films to portray memory
game-data-editor-4
September 21, 2020Date: 9/21/20 Tags: Tools, Svelte, Data, VSCode Permalink: /game-data-editor-vscode-part-4 Summary: Editing VS Code virtual document data from
game-data-editor-3
September 20, 2020Date: 9/20/20 Tags: Tools, Svelte, Data, VSCode Permalink: /game-data-editor-vscode-part-3 Summary: Getting data into Svelte from VSCode’s virtual
game-data-editor-2
September 11, 2020Date: 9/11/20 Tags: Tools, Svelte, Data, VSCode Permalink: /game-data-editor-vscode-part-2 Summary: Using Svelte for VS Code Custom Editor Webviews
game-data-editor-1
September 11, 2020Date: 9/11/20 Tags: Tools, Svelte, Data, VSCode Permalink: /game-data-editor-vscode-part-1 Summary: Why build a custom data editor? Title: Building
Steam Wishlist Calculator
August 31, 2020I made an interactable calculator that allows you to identify a wishlist target for your game
platform-master
August 4, 2020Date: 8/4/2020 Tags: Movies Permalink: /platform-master-review Summary: Indie Game: The Movie where nobody wins and it doesn’t matter Title: A
Selections and Highlights from the Itch.io Racial Justice and Equality Bundle
June 9, 2020Selections and Highlights from the Itch.io Racial Justice and Equality Bundle
Demystifying Attributes, C#'s Under-Utilized Superpower for Game Development
May 4, 2020Exploring the many uses of C#'s attributes in Game Development
A Brief Introduction to the OSR and Some Recommendations
May 1, 2020Talking about some things I like in OSR
The Burden of Worldbuilding
March 28, 2020Thinking about OSR, Worldbuilding, and everything in between
Intro to Part 2
August 3, 2019Date: 8/3/2019 Tags: Unity, Discord, Early Access Permalink: /build_pipelines_2 Title: Unity Build Pipelines Part 2: Effectively Delivering a Closed
Introduction
July 27, 2019Date: 7/27/2019 Tags: Unity, Steamworks Title: Unity Build Pipelines Part 1: Automating Multiplatform Builds with Steam Integrations Permalink:
P2P Networking from Top to Bottom
August 31, 2017Working with P2P Networking in Unity, C#, and Facepunch.Steamworks
A Gentle Introduction to Steamworks
August 17, 2017A brief introduction to Steamworks that cuts to the point
Welcome!
August 16, 2017Date: 8/16/2017 Tags: General Permalink: /introduction Title: Welcome! Summary:Welcome to my blog! — I’ve been wanting to start up a more formal