GMTK 2025 Experience

For the second year running some of my close friends and I decided to come back and try our hand at the Game Maker's Toolkit Game Jam. This is the story of that experience and what we learned in retrospect.

Custom Lighting 2.0: Baking Time

After spending a month building a custom 2D lighting engine, I was ready to move on to other features. Then I tried to actually use it and yeah it didn't work.

Internet Manager v1.2.0 - Config Update

Internet Manager gets a new update that makes it much more user friendly!

Can Game Design Fix Gaming Addiction?

Game design has the power to shape behaviors—both in fostering enjoyment and potentially curbing addiction. But can it truly fix gaming addiction?

Creating a Compute Lighting System and Rendering Meshes into 2D Textures

When trying to overcome an obstacle, the combination of a lack of experience and a lot of determination can create solutions that work, but are unnecessarily complicated and time intensive. I don't know what to call these imperfect solutions other than the 'growing pains' of progress.