The last post covered the cyberdeck's gameplay loop: contracts, mission graphs, RPS combat, chain storylines, three-path endgame. With those bones in place I spent the next few days fleshing out the world around them. The OPERATOR isn't just running missions anymore; they're moving through a city that has its own …

I've spent the last couple weeks turning the cyberdeck from "a thing that talks to you in cyberpunk-flavored ways" into something that's actually a game. Now there's a real loop: you take contracts from fixers, you run them through one of several gameplay modes, the world reacts, your reputation moves …

One of my hobbies is collecting physical copies of games. I've been at it since 2013, but I've slowed down in recent months and am now looking toward downsizing.

It started with a buddy wanting to sell his old NES and games that he found in his parents' attic. With …

I've made some pretty decent progress, I think, though at the same time I'm beginning to learn that I have a very long way to go before I can make a real full-featured game. The resource that gave me the biggest jump-start was definitely Famicom Party. Using that book as …

I've set a new goal for 2022: to build an NES game. As I collect and play more games for the system, I've come to appreciate the amount of effort that goes into engineering software at such a low level. The kinds of challenges that programmers had to overcome while …

Rolling around in a giant pile of nostalgia, I decided to dig through files on a pile of old hard drives I had lying around. My chief goal was to find my old Quake 2 installation so I could recover my former collection of player models, skins, maps, and game …