This week I have been working on finishing up Captain Joystick, my weird hybrid of arcade machine and sculptural home furnishing. I ordered a Raspberry Pi 2 to use as the brains of the machine and ...

I find myself spending a lot of time thinking about the past and the future. If you know me, you would be forgiven for thinking that this was due to my age. An earned sentimentality. In reality, I'...

I typically try to refrain from just talking up tools on here. The thinking goes, why would I go to the trouble of writing something without having some sort of thesis in mind. If I’m just wr...

This past weekend I was helping a friend out with his comic expo booth. He had a few old cartridges, NES and ATARI, that he had decalled up to look like games that never existed. The ATARI cart was...

I know almost nothing about the intricacies of graphics programming. I don’t know how to swizzle a matrix or whatever it is graphics programmers do. I know that swizzling is a real thing, and...

forty years gone byplaying games more than thirtysilly to stop now

Best Games - Caverns of Khafka (for Atari computers)Caverns of Khafka feels like a game that could shake apart at any moment. Is it possible to glitch your character clean through the floor of the ...

I hate rendering. Can’t stand it. I would be positively ellated to never have to render anything ever again.  That leads to the obvious question. What is rendering, and why do you hate it so much?...

There are a lot of great digital tools available now that let creators work in rapid, iterative ways. We owe a lot of the progress made in the last 40 years to the humble “undo” command. The undo ...