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Big update to the generation of the maze and the sequence for the power ups.

Last week I added mobile controls to Hopworld.

During the Christmas break i finally had some time to address some issues around Hopworld. From all the comments there have been, i distilled some user stories and (tried to) fixed some of them.

Make tiny pixel art sprites in a text format for game jams where you have a limited file or byte size.

Two months into development now. The game changed quite a bit. Time for another devlog post.

Exactly one month ago i started working on a new game after a long period doing other stuff. It is going to be a bigger project than the normal jam games.

I used to write some lines of code each time i created a new asset for a Phaser game. This was a little bit annoying. But with this Webpack trick, i don't have to think about it anymore.

Throw tomatoes at websites! This weeks game is a bookmarklet!

As always the gamedev bug gets me in spring and this year is no exception.

Ponturion is a demo (with source code) of an infinite procedurally generated map.

Last weekend was LD jam weekend. Here is my report.

I prepared for LD44 by making... a tool!

Looking for gamedev tools that generate random assets? Here are some of my picks...

Quietly working on random stuff seems to be the theme this month.

Last month i added a bunch of levels to dead sticks. Here are some insights from the level design process.

A nice way to add variety to your game is random levels. In this article i will explain how i made the mazes for Esciit and Acid Sink.

When building a game that only uses the keyboard, you may want to hide the mouse. Here is how to do it properly!

I submitted my second Ludum Dare entry last month. This time with the help of my brother Thomas, who did the sound and music. Here are some afterthoughts about how it went.

Last May i joined Adventure Jam for the second year in a row. This year's entry was a little weird and experimental, but i still learned a lot from it...

If your are running your html5 game in an iframe, you might run into the problem where your keyboard input loses focus, when you click outside the iframe. Here is a quick tip to circumvent this.

You can support retina devices and other pixel ratio's in your Phaser 3 games. In this short blogpost i will explain how and give some tips on how to make your art super crisp.

About a month ago, I participated for the first time with the Ludum Dare game jam. Here is what i learned from it.

In this blogpost i'll explain how you can load the assets of your Phaser 3 game as data URI's, without having to rely on xhr requests.