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CAN’T STOP THE HYPE TRAIN

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…is the name of my latest game. It’s a little action-puzzle game implemented in just 1024 bytes of JavaScript code.

CAN'T STOP THE HYPE TRAIN

CAN’T STOP THE HYPE TRAIN

That’s not a lot of code. This is my entry in JS1k 2015: The JS1k hype train is real!, a JavaScript code golfing competition. The challenge is to create a demo (as in “demoscene”…basically like a screen-saver) in just 1k of JavaScript or less. I figured that was just enough to make a complete game. Yep.

So go play my game, and check out the rest of the entries too.

Fah Who Foraze, Ludum Dare!

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For years, I’ve been hearing about the Ludum Dare, a long-running make-a-game-in-48-hours competition. I’ve created some computer games in a month or less, and some interesting software in about a weekend. But a complete, playable, fun game in 48 hours is an intriguing challenge – plausible, but not easy.

The current Ludum Dare starts in half an hour, and hey, I’ve got some free time this weekend….

Nothing motivates like an arbitrary, voluntarily-adopted deadline shared by a bunch of strangers, so this year I’m in.

(As for the name, I knew “Ludum” referred to games, like “ludic”, a word ludologists throw around these days. But I thought the Ludum Dare was, you know, a dare!  And it is, but apparently the name is all latin, a motto: “to give a game”. So it really should be pronounced…um…I’m no latin expert, but my understanding is that it’s more like Darla without the L.)