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A New Game Engine

In my GMTK 2025 Game Jam Retrospective I mentioned that I had started my own game engine. Today I wanted to talk a little bit about how that came to be and where it stands today. Where it started This is mostly a summary of where this engine project started.

Cover image for Pew Pew Pals

GMTK 2025 Game Jam Retrospective

This year's game jam theme was Loop. My task over 4 days was to build a game that fit that theme. The theme and allotted time allowed for a lot of really interesting submissions. My game was not very original nor particularly engaging, but I am proud of

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