godot
2.5D: 2D Gameplay, 3D Rendering, 1000+ Enemies
I promised last time I’d write up the rendering trick that lets the Godot port of DET-33 push far more enemies than the JS version. Here it is, …
roguelike
Building a Modern Roguelike in 2026
I have a habit of writing one of these every few years. In 2017 it was a 7DRL experiment merging a roguelike with an FPS, and in 2019 it was ascii …
roguelike
Procedural Levels with Compass
I spent a good chunk of last year writing about compass, the map-generation library with all the fluvial generators and cellular caverns. The whole …
game dev
Stat-Agnostic Skills
After getting the bullet behaviors in DET-33 into a good place, the next system to crack was skills: the active abilities a player picks up as they …
game dev
Composable Bullet Behaviors
This fall I started building a new game: a bullet-hell roguelike called DET-33, built on Phaser 3 and Vue. It’s the kind of game where the whole …
generation
Composition Over Configuration in Compass
The individual generators in compass (the arroyos and rivers, the caverns and meanders) are the fun part to show off, but they aren’t what makes …
generation
Caverns, Automata and the Meander Revisited
Back in 2015 I tackled automata generated caverns for a 7DRL, and in 2018 I wrote up the meander algorithm for rivers. Both made it into compass and …
generation
Carving Terrain Like Water
A few years back I wrote a handful of posts about faking water on top-down maps: generating 2d rivers, cliffs, and an exhumed river channel. Those …
Atomic Design System In Context
Brad Frost created a design system for thinking about developing for the web as a front-end specialist. Atomic Design System is essentially boiled …
udm
Pihole On-top of UDM Pro
Here are some concise steps on how to step-by-step block ads on your network with pihole’s DNS-level ad blocker. Enabling SSH on UDM Pro Go to …