Friday, September 25, 2026
Around a year ago (it might have been more, my memory can be spotty) I experienced the raycaster rite of passage almost every game developer goes through. I was reading Lode's tutorial, watching the 'Make Your Own Raycaster' series on YouTube by 3DSage (both resources highly recommended by the way), when I came across the Entombed algorithm: a maze generation algorithm found in the Atari 2600 game Entombed (1982), in which the player must escape a maze while chased by zombies.
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Tuesday, December 17, 2024
The following is a collection of improvements that can be implemented on a Unity WebGL game released in Itch.io, that allows developers to distribute their game on mobile devices without going through Apple's App Store or Google Play.
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Thursday, July 4, 2024
Every now and then we learn about a new asteroid passing really close to Earth, usually within a couple of hours of it being detected. And right after all those 'the end is nigh' click-bait news articles, we are reassured by NASA that there is no need to panic, with a link to their Eyes on Asteroids website.
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Sunday, June 30, 2024
How many times have you tried accessing the settings of an iOS application on your device, but just the thought of scrolling through this really long list of installed applications in the Settings app makes you abandon all hope?
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Sunday, April 7, 2024
It has been a while since I have started the multi-year process of de-Googling myself. It is nowhere near close to the finish line, but I have taken a few steps towards it.
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