Ben Sparks explores hidden depths of a seemingly simple game.

Tic-tac-toe on a magic square. Hella neat, and hammers home how important representation is in mathematics.

The Game Awards 2025 sparked yet another round of indie discourse with Expedition 33‘s historical sweep causing many to ask what does it actually mean for a game to be “indie”?

The pain of semantic drift.

On April 7th, 2013, history was made.

So even Yu-Gi-Oh! is capable of Magic-like shenanigans.

Talk from the Roguelike Celebration 2018

Very nice software architecture talk. Patterns discussed: composition over inheritance, type objects, commands/actions.

My engine supports detailed changes to world geometry - adding and removing matter both smoothly or with sharp edges. It also supports non-destructive changes like moving a hole around, or creating a tunnel and walking through it - and then seeing it disappear behind you. I’m excited about these non-destructive changes in particular as they enable a lot of interesting gameplay mechanics.

Very impressive!

Vanilla teleporters in Minecraft. Nice.

Attended their Massachusetts show today with friends. Not into trading cards so I didn’t buy much, but it was nice talking to merchants and learning the trade. Was a tad unfortunate the event was in Medford instead of Boston: bus frequency to and from the venue was not great.

Falling in love with a fictional character is not abnormal. Neither by societal standards based on just how many people do and by psychological standards. It is a normal thing we sometimes do as humans; become attached to someone who doesn’t really exist. Let’s take a journey into the mountain of psychological research and real life pandemonium of fictophilia.

“Pro-DEI” is one of the dog whistles of all time.

see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW_WUmHxtGI

Chris investigates the Palestinian-led Xbox Boycott and how it’s already secured a major victory against one of the largest corporations on the planet.

see: https://nogamesforgenocide.com/

In this one I go through how Brennan Lee Mulligan hid a secret finale to Game Changer Season 7 behind months of lies, all so Sam Reich finally gets a taste of his own medicine of subjecting improv comedians to twisted little challenges. We’ll discuss every clue piece that was placed throughout Game Changer Season 7, with lots of hidden content most people haven’t seen before involving Jacob Wysocki, Vic Michaelis, and many many more.

via: https://coolthingswefound.com/archive

Cooties Simulator 2009™

Straight fire. Being able to make videos like this is one of the many benefits of computer music.

I love the idea that Ayanokoji is actually mid at chess LOL.

Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called “Half Life 2”. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.

It’s always floating point precision.

the urge to try to attain a true “infinite rabbithole” of interpretation - a game whose secrets may never be fully plumbed - is a damn tempting one. and depth may be plumbed from even fixed sources!