A personal newsletter from indie game developer Michael Mato covering the development of his games FORKLIFT FLOWERPOT and TORSO TENNIS, along with reviews and reflections on other games. Readers get a candid, first-person look at the creative process, productivity habits, and life as a parent who makes games.
Website: https://www.toomuchtomato.com/
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.
Trapnest is a daily series of long-form technical essays about browser-based 3D projects, covering architecture, physics, and mathematics behind interactive worlds like a lake pavilion, a fighter-jet cockpit simulator, and a cyberpunk driving game. Readers get detailed explanations of the engineering and maths under each project, written with a vivid, enthusiastic voice.
Regen Raygun is a weekly-style commentary newsletter on how the games industry is being reshaped by generative AI, covering AI agents playing games, user-generated game platforms and studio AI mandates. Readers get analysis of recent industry moves and the reasoning behind them, with direct reference to primary sources.
One short email a week with hand-picked newsletters from the index. Free, no spam, unsubscribe anytime.
