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GMTK 2024 Game Jam Retrospective

GMTK 2024 Game Jam Retrospective

It's hard to believe I've been doing this game jam for 5 years now. Game Maker's Toolkit does a yearly game jam where tens of thousands of people spend a weekend building a game around a theme. That theme this year was Built to

Screenshot from video game -- asteroids exploding

GTMK 2023 Game Jam Retrospective

This is my 4th time participating in the annual Game Maker's Toolkit game jam. Game jams are events where you must build a complete game within a specific time frame, in this case 48 hours. As always it was a fun experience but it felt a little different

Cloud in blue sky

The Small Business Case for Cloud

I keep thinking about comments online lately around the cost of cloud computing services vastly outweighing running your own hardware. I've long believed that hosting a small scale service in the cloud is cheaper than hosting it on-premise, but things change and it's always worth reevaluating.

Laptop computer with code displayed on the screen

My Case for Open Source

Background This introduction is a bit long-winded. The TL;DR is that someone asked me why someone would use Linux. If you're in a hurry you can skip to the next section. This week started with an attempt (again) to switch my desktop OS. Last year I attempted

Getting Starting with Silk.NET (on Linux)

Silk.Net's readme describes itself: Silk.NET is your one-stop-shop for high-speed .NET multimedia, graphics, and compute; providing bindings to popular low-level APIs such as OpenGL, OpenCL, OpenAL, OpenXR, GLFW, SDL, Vulkan, Assimp, WebGPU, and DirectX. The documentation is a little bare: The tutorial code looks promising so

Pen writing on pape

Don't Wait to Document - Part 2

In the previous post I talked about the benefits of not waiting to document in code. With that out of the way I can zoom out a bit and discuss documentation more generally. The idea behind this blog is the same idea behind this post: waiting to write something down

Many books laying open

Don't Wait to Document - Part 1

This is a long winded first post that will eventually explain why this blog exists in the first place so.. bear with me. I've broken this post into 2 parts: first some thoughts on comments in code and then on documentation in general. Documentation in Code The practice