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  • LittleJS Jam Results

    LittleJS Jam Results

    Last month we held the first-ever LittleJS Game Jam and it has been a huge success! A whopping 571 people signed up for the jam, showing just how much interest there is in LittleJS! Out of those that joined, 35 games were submitted using the theme “Animals”, showcasing the creativity and talent of our community.…

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  • Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers

    Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers

    One of my favorite game jams is the legendary Js13kGames competition, where participants have one month to make a web browser game that fits in a 13 kilobyte zip file. To put that into perspective, a floppy disk from the before times could hold 1.44 MB, enough to fit over 100 JS13K games! In 2021…

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  • JavaScript Haikus – My Live Talk for Nerd Nite

    JavaScript Haikus – My Live Talk for Nerd Nite

    Last week I gave a talk about tiny code for Nerd Nite in Austin Texas! This is a more refined version of my previous talk and a great introduction to creative coding and recreational programming. I hope it inspires you to write some of your own tiny programs!

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  • City In A Bottle – A 256 Byte Raycasting System

    City In A Bottle – A 256 Byte Raycasting System

    Hello size coding fans. Today, I have something amazing to share: A tiny raycasting engine and city generator that fits in a standalone 256 byte html file. In this post I will share all the secrets about how this magical program works. Here’s my tweet that contains the code and a video of the output……

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  • Bitwise 📼 Liminal – A Short Film in 256 Bytes

    Bitwise 📼 Liminal – A Short Film in 256 Bytes

    … I found an old VHS tape at a yard sale. It was labeled “Bitwise Liminal” in sharpie. But when I watched the video it was only static. Then I started having vivid and surreal dreams. While awake I couldn’t stop thinking about that weird VHS tape. After researching I learned it was a digital…

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  • Free Workshop: How to make amazing generative art with simple JavaScript code

    Free Workshop: How to make amazing generative art with simple JavaScript code

    My workshop from last year’s JS Game Dev Summit is now available for free! This three hour course starts with how to create a basic HTML file and goes to advanced graphical effects by the end. It was recorded live with a class that participated by asking questions which helped guide the talk. It’s a…

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