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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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  • How to make a 3D game in only 2KB of JavaScript

    How to make a 3D game in only 2KB of JavaScript

    Months ago, when I heard that the legendary JS1k game jam would not be continuing, I talked it over with some other devs and decided to help fill the void we would host a 2k game jam on itch called 2kPlus Jam. The primary goal of this comp was to create a game that fits…

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  • Adventures in Tiny Coding – My 2019 In Review

    Last year was an interesting and productive year. Mostly I’ve been doing a deep dive into web development and JavaScript, while making ton of games, tools, tiny programs, and animations. The central theme to nearly everything I have been doing is something you might call “Tiny Coding”. My adventure in tiny coding began on April…

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  • Bounce Back Postmortem

    Bounce Back Postmortem

    The JS13k competition has been going on every year since 2012 but this was my first year entering. Participants get 1 month to make an original 13 kilobyte JavaScript game. This year the theme was “Back” and there were 245 entries! Bounce Back got 2nd place! My game “Bounce Back” is a procedurally generated adventure…

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  • Spendotron: 2019 – Postmortem – Ludum Dare 44

    The theme for Ludum Dare 44 was “Your Life is Currency”. This was my 9th Ludum Dare and first one using Javascript. You can play it in browser on itch.io! It’s been over 4 years since the last time I’ve competed in a Ludum Dare so I’m excited to get back into it. I think…

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  • I made 7 1k JavaScript demos in 2 weeks for JS1k!

    I made 7 1k JavaScript demos in 2 weeks for JS1k!

    For the past month I have been doing a deep dive into making tiny JavaScript programs. It started when I learned the JS1k (JavasScript 1 kilobyte) competition was underway, with the deadline rapidly approaching. I had programmed only a small amount of JavaScript before, but always wanted to learn more. It’s such a fun language,…

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