Back when I was making Snake in 500 characters, I was wondering how small I could make a decent Dr. Mario clone. I had gotten an incomplete proof-of-concept down to 1,122 characters before I gave up. But it got me thinking: how exactly does Dr. Mario create its levels …
· Life
Over the weekend, I played in a tournament for the arcade game Killer Queen in Madison, Wisconsin. I’ve been playing it with a group of friends in Milwaukee for almost a year, and this is the second Killer Queen tournament I’ve been in outside of Milwaukee.
Killer Queen …
· Atheism
A bit over a week ago, I saw an interesting video on YouTube from KingJamesCode37 called “The Number 7 in the BIBLE”. It’s a 46-minute collection of tidbits about the Bible – specifically, the King James Version – that have to do with the number 7. This is apparently supposed to …
· PICO-8
In the second week of May 2024, there was a small game jam called TweetTweetJam 9, where participants have to write a game with 500 characters of code or less. Most participants made their entries using PICO-8, a retro-style “fantasy console” with “cartridges” written in Lua. And although I missed …
· Metablog
Hello, and welcome to my new blog!
I’ve owned the domain name winslowjosiah.com for just over a year, and up until this point, I’ve only used it for hosting a few small projects. But now that I have a blog, I’ll be using it to talk …