A solo developer's personal devlog covering their space trading game Flat Worlds, including Titan's release, new ships and storage mechanics, and frank reflections on sales and marketing. Recent issues also introduce WATCH MY ESCAPE, a sandbox adventure game where local LLMs try to solve puzzles the author designs.
Website: https://che.codes/
Developer blog on building OpenMU, an open-source MMORPG game server, covering architecture decisions, performance work and new features. Readers get detailed engineering write-ups with code-level reasoning and measured results.
Design Room publishes long-form oral histories of video games, built from interviews with the people who made them, covering famous titles and obscure ones alike. Issues also include community features and occasional updates on the publication's paid tier and plans.
Long-form essays by a technically trained author on mathematics, physics, programming language design and game development. Each piece builds careful conceptual arguments, such as separating models from laws and interface from implementation, and corrects popular misconceptions.
A developer's blog about building Owlbear Rodeo, a virtual tabletop for role-playing games, covering design decisions like map alignment tools, automatic fog detection, and reflections on the developer's early programming history. Readers get detailed insight into the tradeoffs and features behind a niche TTRPG software product.
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