Best Games - SilpheedSilpheed wants to set a mood.The game opens with a few lines from the end of Julius Caesar over a simulated star field.“How many ages hence / Shall this our lofty sc...

I’m in the cooldown period.Whenever I finish a draft of a story (this is the second of this particular story) I set it aside for a little while before looking it over again. The cooldown...

A while ago, I created a method of rendering out fixed direction Normal and Depth information from 3D models in milliseconds, rather than the seconds or tens of seconds that it would take usin...

As I type this, my son is downstairs playing Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. When he’s not playing it, he’s watching videos about it. The rest of the time, I’m probably...

Best Games - Area 51Arcade light gun games are a tough one. I can write about them here, but unless you happen to have an arcade or a barcade near you, I don’t know that there is an easy...

I haven’t done a writing update in a while. So, what’s the state of my writing at the moment? Not good. Or fine. Maybe it’s actually good. I don’t know.A while ago I se...

This week, I did my first bit of 2D, by hand, frame to frame, animation in more than twenty years. To be clear, this wasn’t on paper, it’s likely been even longer since I’ve ...

Best Games -  Duke Nukem 3DI’ll start this off by addressing the realities of time. Just trust that I will get around to why Duke Nukem 3D deserves to be on the list of best games, ...

I’ve been working on a bunch of shaders recently. Some of them do things to the pixels as they are drawn to the screen and some of them do stuff to the geometry before the pixels get dra...

My 2D game project is coming along. Most of my time with it has just been learning the ins and outs of Godot 4.Like I said before, I have only really done a very small amount of dabbling with ...