https://itch.io/jam/arcade-jam-2026-cgda/entries Yesterday I got the chance to participate in a game jam. This time I wasn’t jamming, I was judging. I played all the games and talked with all the ...

For a while I had most of the control issues with my game worked out. You could run around and the screen would scroll at least as smoothly as a 1990s era arcade machine or console. I had introduce...

I hit a strange milestone recently. This is both the most stories I have had out on submission and the longest I have had multiple stories out on submission. Let’s be completely honest, most, if n...

Turning an entirely 3D, triangle based, game into a 2D, pixel art, game takes a lot of fakery. Up until now, a lot of that fakery leaned on a few scripts and processes that were largely CPU based. ...

Best Games - Return of the Obra Dinn It’s the sort of premise that could only come from an indie developer. At a larger development studio or publisher, Lucas Pope and Obra Dinn never make it past...

Work continues slowly on my game. I have reworked a lot of my Blender to Godot flow. I have simplified some of my shader setup so that my CRT effect lives completely independent of any graphics it...

For my birthday I decided to gift myself not having to post something this week. Shit. I just did, didn’t I.

Best Games - Punch-Out!! Punch-Out!! only exists because of a mistake. By 1984 Nintendo had already released three Donkey Kong titles and one Mario Bros. game. I don’t know if you heard, but the ...

For the first time in quite a while, I have several stories out on submission. If you have never sent stories out or submitted stories to a publisher, just sending the stories out means almost not...

The game I am working on uses an orthographic perspective… orthographic perspective is sort of an oxymoron. Maybe orthographic projection. Orthographic camera? It tries to look like an old game, an...