Hey hey people, I wrote a game recently for a certain coding competition, and thought I'd share the thought process behind it. Let's start with the Design King Thirteen is by far the most deliberately designed game I've made. It all began with a very...
An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded. This is the story of the Super Castle Game, a js13k game jam entry. Naturally, it begins with the theme of the 2023 edition of the compo: 13th Century. When it dropped, I was com...
This is the second post in the series. See the previous post, ECMAScript Embedded Bitmap Encoding for context. My friend Roman pointed out that I was, in fact, doing things suboptimally in the EEBE post: The array of scanlines can be replaced with ...
I propose the following bitmap format, suitable for embedding small images in TypeScript or JavaScript source code: // ECMAScript Embedded Bitmap Encoding (EEBE) // Required fields: export const lines = [ 0b0001000, 0b0111000, 0b1101000, 0b10...
This is the story of The Neatness. It all started when I began playing The Looker, a brilliant game by Bradley Lovell. Line-based puzzles in The Looker are mostly satire, the player being able to bypass many of those by scribbling madly. I was instan...
