This is a port of robmikh’s Minesweeper using Microsoft’s Rust for Windows runtime. If you like Minesweeper, and/or Rust, and/or Windows… this repo’s for you.

Here is my python source code for training an agent to play Tetris. It could be seen as a very basic example of Reinforcement Learning’s application.

Demo on YouTube.

This is an NES emulator and a work in progress. The CPU, PPU, and APU mostly work, though there are still at least a couple bugs. I’ve mostly tested on Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros. so far. There are plenty of full-featured emulators out there; this is primarily an educational project but I do want it to run well.

If you’re interested in learning about Rust and/or emulators, this is for you.

This is a simple city builder with no simulation or anything like that. Cool, nonetheless.

Imagine an infinitely generated world that you could explore endlessly, continually finding entirely new content and adventures. What if you could also choose any action you can think of instead of being limited by the imagination of the developers who created the game?

Built with OpenAI’s GPT-2 model. First of its kind. Want a primer? Check out Practical AI #32,

Jerod, Divya, & Suz get together to discuss top-level await, the JS13kGames winner, Liran Tal’s is-website-vulnerable, Vue 3’s source code, and Facebook’s take on AR/VR/XR. Plus 3 awesome pro tips you don’t want to miss!

The scope creep of cURL is also something to behold, the program can do tons of stuff! Just look at the home page! With cURL having this many features (with the general mass of them being totally unknown to me, let alone how you use them) got me thinking… What if you could do a game show style challenge for them?

I couldn’t make it past the DELETE request (stage 3) without consulting Manuel. How far can you get?

This game looks like the perfect way to get my kids coding without them knowing that I’m getting them coding. The automation is via a drag-n-drop scratch-like interface (is it Scratch?), so it should be easy for anyone to do.

Bot Land is available on all mobile platforms as well as the web. (!)

Nintendo has been slowly bringing their iconic games and characters to mobile platforms. Maybe it’s time they consider the web platform? 😉

This provides easy access to the Gamepad API, which I didn’t even know was a thing. The API is callback-style:

gameControl.on('connect', function(gamepad) {
  gamepad.on('up', moveCharacterUp);
});

Welcome to the fantastic world of nerdy regex fun! Start playing by selecting one of the puzzle challenges below. There are a wide range of difficulties from beginner to expert.

Over 52,000 nerds after my own heart have already registered to play.

Version Museum showcases the visual history of popular websites, operating systems, applications, and games that have shaped our lives.

I freakin’ love this site. They have quite a collection here, everything from Amazon.com and Google Maps to Mac OS and Super Mario Kart. Version 1.5 of Microsoft Excel was dope! (full Excel history here)

Having to open an additional app to play a game is sometimes too tiring. Therefore, I thought it’d be interesting to somehow implement Minecraft with javascript, essentially bringing the whole Minecraft game into the web. This not only takes away the tedious process of installing the game, it also brings the entire game to players within a couple clicks.

Words cannot describe how much I adore the thought that building this extremely ambitious piece of software was a better alternative to the tedious process of installing the game. 😆

This was “received from a friend of a friend”, then posted for download. That means if you download it (for learning purposes only, there are no executables here), you got it from a friend who got it from a stranger who got it from a friend of a friend (assuming we’re friends, otherwise it’s strangers all the way down).

On June 6, 2019 Tetris turned 35 years old. To celebrate, I wrote my own version and posted it in my GitHub repo. No libraries. No frameworks. Just JavaScript. Those learning JavaScript might find a few lessons here!

Jerod and Divya are joined by George Mandis to learn all about his “frivolous” JavaScript library that’s helped countless websites implement the beloved cheat code. Ten years later and still actively maintained, Konami-JS has stood the test of time and produced some epic stories along the way (you’ll love hearing how George broke Marvel.com).

Since all these projects are open source you can help them and make this world a better place. Or at least you can play something to appreciate the effort people put in them.

I love how they even highlight which games are still playable and how active their development is. A lot of love went into this very excellent resource. Game on!

With Zdog, you can design and render simple 3D models on the Web. Zdog is a pseudo-3D engine. Its geometries exist in 3D space, but are rendered as flat shapes. This makes Zdog special.

We’re talking with Victor Zhou about the explosion of the .io game genre. We talked through all the details around building and running one of these games, the details behind Victor’s super popular game called Generals — which he eventually sold, and we also covered the economics behind creating and selling one of these games.

The README says Gameboy.Live is for “learning purposes”, but for me so far it has only been for “playing purposes” 😜. Install it and play on your desktop, or simply telnet gameboy.live 1989…

This Q+A with Celia Hodent, former Fortnite UX Lead, is quite enlightening when considering game design, engagement, and addiction as it relates to massively successful games like Fortnite.

My latest GDC talk was about ethics in the video game industry, and I talked about addiction. These are the things we don’t think about when we make a game because—you’re so lucky when a game is working and it’s making money, and it’s not canceled, and your studio isn’t shutting down. So we don’t necessarily think about the other side of it.

And to be fair, most games don’t have that high-engagement problem. It’s only when it’s super successful that you can afford to consider “oh, maybe we need to think about this game a bit differently.”

Swiftenstein is a partial reimplementation of ID Software’s 1992 classic FPS Wolfenstein 3D in Swift for iOS. It is not a complete game, just a single-level tech demo.

Not a complete re-creation of the original, but “close enough for nostalgia purposes” and definitely worth a read-through for education purposes.

A quine is a program which takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output. This one also plays snake over its own source code! I can’t fathom how much thought went into this. Also trial and error. LOTS of trial and error. Super cool.

I recently ported some math code from C++ to Rust in an attempt to do a cool thing with Doom. Here is my story.

Buckle up, because this a #longread. However, it’s worth it because you will be entertained while wading through the mucky-muck of solving what sounds like a simple problem (but isn’t): I have some shapes. I want to find their intersection. Who knows, you might even learn some Rust along the way…

CSSBattle is a fun developer game where players replicate visual targets using the smallest possible code and climb the leaderboards.

Looks like a fun way to waste spend your Friday afternoon…