This past while I've been working on some changes to Tilemap Town to try and get things in place to make it handle unreliable connections a bit better, as well as make it work better as an instant messaging thing, should it need to play a role like that in the future.

The game world is conceptua...

Sometimes it's weird to think about how I develop for consoles that are really expensive and are probably going to keep getting more expensive, and I worry about what effect that'll have long-term, but I had the realization that the accessibility of getting an original console actually doesn't matte...

In order to play music on most older consoles, the developer needs to supply a program (an "sound driver" or "sound engine" or similar) that will gradually step through a song, encoded as a sequence of notes and effects, and turn notes on and off as needed. Typically sound effects work similarly. Th...

I think mascot characters are probably my biggest special interest of all, though I'm clearly interested in specific kinds so maybe there's a better descriptor?

I'm generally interested in the cute animal-y ones with simple but effective designs (especially with theming!! Especially when that th...

I put off trying Neopets again for a long time because the way people talked about it made it seem not worth trying, but I think either I got the wrong impression or the change of ownership actually had a big effect for the better.

People made it sound like the Neopets site was all broken (due to...