I loved Heiyanko Alien off a Game Boy multicart an a kid and revisit it from time to time and always have a good time; I never knew that it actually predated Lode Runner and Pac-Man.

It plays as a clever combination of both. My favorite (and most played) maze-chase game is Clu-Clu Land, which I didn’t grow up with, I found it ten years back. Other beloved maze-chase games I still replay are Power Racer, Tasmanian Story, Devil World, and the aforementioned Pac-Man and Lode Runner. All of them I did play all the time back then but with Clu-Clu Land I’ve stacked up so many more plays since I love it so much. Just love the cozy fish vibes and the deliberately mindmeldy controls.

For the PlayStation, here’s an ambitious fix of some issues with FFIX’s fighting system.

Here’s a remix of FFVI that’s supposedly okay to start with even if I haven’t played FFVI before. Fixes some bugs and makes the game more thinky, supposedly.

I’m playing the DS remake of Final Fantasy IV right now (belatedly after getting a big spoiler from the Magic card for Cecil) and it made me curious to check out if the SNES versions had any fun romhacks and yes!

This turns FFIV into an open world game. But I’d better finish the story normally first.

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.

Ed Copeland goes deep as we explore how we cracked an infinite sum relating to black holes.

Lots of great techniques.

Ed Copeland continues from the main video

Lots of great techniques.

Not really sure where this video came from, I came downstairs in the morning and it was already fully uploaded. Dan doesn’t know anything about it either. Doesn’t seem like it’ll get me in trouble though so F it, we’ll let it rock. Weirdly enough it sounds like he’s listening to Shoegazer Watched The Stars from NMH2 for most of the video. With a brief appearance by 1811 from Lost Judgement.

Absolutely hilarious.

In 1988, three engineers came together and developed one of the most clever solutions to the problem of detecting when two complex objects collide. Their solution, the Gilbert Johnson Keerthi (GJK) algorithm, named after the authors, made an incredible impact in the fields of robotics, control, and computer graphics. This video is about understanding this ingenious algorithm from first principles.

Video about implementing the GJK algorithm for collision detection

An explanation of how Quake, and other games like it, use BSP Trees to stop the player from walking through walls and falling through the ground.

via: https://ruk.ca/content/i-so-very-much-want-everyone-who-subscribes-newsletter-watch-one-hour-video

Merging the Trump and CHH personas together: How would I talk about my Substack if I were Trump? / This 15-minute, one-take improvised Trump impression brought to you by mental illness.

This has no right to be this good.

Let’s learn and grow. New things are cool!

Simple economic arguments for why solar, batteries, and other renewable energy technologies are possible RN and clearly the future.

And then some much needed discussion of politics.

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.

The tsundere is a well-known anime trope, that many people still love to this day. But something happened to it since its inception, and I want to talk about that.

The “database” is a very interesting comparative media concept; will keep it in mind.