Tutorials
Advanced Git Commands You Don’t Use Daily (But Should Know)
Some advanced git commands are useful, but don’t come up often. It’s helpful to know what these features are, what they do, and when to use them.
Dev Logs
Laser Beast’s Programming is Done. Now We Build Levels.
Save systems, scene navigation, Steamworks integration, and the Bootstrapper all finished in April. Here is where Laser Beast stands heading into May.
Tutorials
The Git Commands Worth Learning First
A practical reference covering repo setup, branch management, and committing your work. The git commands that handle most of what you need.
Game Analysis
What Super Meat Boy Taught Me About Difficulty Progression
Super Meat Boy’s difficulty progression is completely intentional. Here’s what I learned analyzing it, and what I’m bringing into my own game.
Tutorials
A Git Workflow in Practice: Building Pong from Scratch
Learn how a professional Git workflow applies to a real project. We use Pong as a simple, step-by-step demonstration from empty repo to shipped build.
Dev Logs
How I Built the Laser System for Laser Beast
The laser system in Laser Beast has four types, a shared visual layer, and an event-driven button system. Here is how it all fits together.
Tutorials
A Clean Git Workflow: Branching, Commits, and Pull Requests
A structured Git workflow keeps your project stable, your history readable, and your codebase ready to scale. Here’s the system I use on every project.
Game Design Principles
Planning Game Development from the Top Down
How a professional programmer plans game development from the top down. Start with the player, build toward core systems, and know when to stop planning.
Dev Logs
My Game Sat Untouched for Months. Here’s How I’m Saving It.
A precision platformer. Four months abandoned. One bout of pneumonia. Here’s how I got Laser Beast back on track and what the next 90 days look like.
Post Mortems
Bigmode Game Jam 2026: Missed the Deadline, Built It Anyway
Got pneumonia two days into Bigmode Game Jam 2026 and missed the deadline. I made the game anyways. Here’s what worked and what didn’t.