Vibecoding the mood.site Premium Update
April 18, 2025
On using Cline and Claude Code to release a major update to production software
So You Want To Compile Your C# Game Engine To The Web With WASM
December 24, 2024
Diving into the NativeAOT-LLVM compile chain to make my game engine work on the web
I'm Making A Podcast About Game Programming
October 7, 2024
Announcing 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, 2024
On figuring out how to bridge the GameObject/ECS divide by leverage attributes, partials, and source generators.
Introducing Mood.site
March 11, 2024
Leveraging 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, 2024
Goblin-mode-ing C#'s type system and record syntax to render a webpage
Handing Collisions the ECS Way
February 2, 2024
Breaking old habits and trying to form new ones
Fixing Discourse Restore dump.sql.gz Errors For Mismatched tar/gz files
January 24, 2024
Zipping your tars or tar-ing your zips?
So You Wanna Package Some Native Libs Into A NuGet Package
January 21, 2024
Into the depths of csproj and NuGet package management
Luau.NET
October 31, 2023
Binding Luau (aka Roblox Lua) into C#
First Impressions of Disney's Lorcana TCG
September 15, 2023
Thoughts and impressions after a few rounds of playing Lorcana
Cantata Released!
August 15, 2023
Our ambitious Grand Tactics game is finally here!
Cultivating A Space For The Doing
May 16, 2023
An average Tuesday begets strangely connected threads
Breaking the Cycle - The Potential of Creative AI in Game Development
April 26, 2023
Game development is in crisis. Can creative AI tooling save it?
Simple Echo Example for Discord.Net Bot
March 17, 2023
Quick 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, 2023
An 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, 2023
Debugging some FMOD interop stuff
Discovering Dotnet-Script
February 26, 2023
Running C# inside C# with dotnet-script
Heisenfunctions, Incremental Determinism, and The Future of Programming
January 8, 2023
Exploring what it could mean to program with GPT from the very start
AI Won't Take Gamedev
November 17, 2022
Game development is already commoditized.
Talking To Machines, Or "Serendipitous Prompting for AI Image Generators"
October 24, 2022
Talking about how Midjourney has changed how I approach creative work.
Finding answers to difficult questions
October 20, 2022
Exploring 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, 2022
Musing on speedrunning's relationship to games and the production of "new" nostalgias
Midjourney Changed My Mind on AI-Generated Art
June 24, 2022
Experimenting with Midjourney to create concept art
Game Design Mimetics (Or, What Happened To Game Design?)
June 9, 2022
Exploring 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, 2022
Configuring a new Macbook Pro for 2022 for game development + video editing
Reflecting on using 2D in Unity in 2021/2022
February 16, 2022
Reflecting on using Unity for a large scale 2D project
I Guess I'm Making A Game Engine...
February 25, 2021
Towards a fresh, new way of making games in C# and Dotnet
Using Unity's New 2D Animation System for Traditional Sprite Animation
February 23, 2021
Using SpriteLibrary and SpriteResolver to reduce redundant work
Troubleshooting MacOS APFS FileVault Permissions De-Sync During High Sierra to Big Sur Update
February 1, 2021
Fixing a machine on the brink of disaster
2020 in Review
January 30, 2021
Things I liked in 2020
A History of Civilization Beyond Sid Meier's Memoir
December 5, 2020
Extra reading and listening for people who want to know more about the history of *Civilization*
Thoughts on Promesa
November 28, 2020
Diving into how Promesa uses the language of game engines and films to portray memory
Announcing Depot
October 11, 2020
Depot, the structured data editor for VS Code, is available now!
Dreaming of C#'s future in Unity
October 8, 2020
Could webassembly ever make it into Unity?
game-data-editor-4
September 21, 2020
Date: 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, 2020
Date: 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, 2020
Date: 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, 2020
Date: 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, 2020
I made an interactable calculator that allows you to identify a wishlist target for your game
platform-master
August 4, 2020
Date: 8/4/2020 Tags: Movies Permalink: /platform-master-review Summary: Indie Game: The Movie where nobody wins and it doesn’t matter Title: A
Some Game UI Principles
June 18, 2020
Some rules I try to follow when designing UI
Selections and Highlights from the Itch.io Racial Justice and Equality Bundle
June 9, 2020
Selections and Highlights from the Itch.io Racial Justice and Equality Bundle
Demystifying Attributes, C#'s Under-Utilized Superpower for Game Development
May 4, 2020
Exploring the many uses of C#'s attributes in Game Development
A Brief Introduction to the OSR and Some Recommendations
May 1, 2020
Talking about some things I like in OSR
Reflections on Using Roam After Three Months
April 1, 2020
Reflecting on a few months of using Roam
The Burden of Worldbuilding
March 28, 2020
Thinking about OSR, Worldbuilding, and everything in between
2019 Recap
February 16, 2020
A summary of things I liked in 2019
Intro to Part 2
August 3, 2019
Date: 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, 2019
Date: 7/27/2019 Tags: Unity, Steamworks Title: Unity Build Pipelines Part 1: Automating Multiplatform Builds with Steam Integrations Permalink:
Things I Liked in 2018
January 9, 2019
Things I Liked In 2018
Bringing CastleDB to Unity
August 11, 2018
Bringing CastleDB to Unity
Tichi
May 28, 2018
Learning to love traditional card games
Bitwise Tilemapping
September 20, 2017
“Intelligently” generating tilemaps
P2P Networking from Top to Bottom
August 31, 2017
Working with P2P Networking in Unity, C#, and Facepunch.Steamworks
A Gentle Introduction to Steamworks
August 17, 2017
A brief introduction to Steamworks that cuts to the point
Welcome!
August 16, 2017
Date: 8/16/2017 Tags: General Permalink: /introduction Title: Welcome! Summary:Welcome to my blog! — I’ve been wanting to start up a more formal