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  • JS1024 – Ants, Storms, and Floods

    JS1024 – Ants, Storms, and Floods

    JS1024 is an annual JavaScript code golfing competition where the goal is to make 1 kilobyte demos. The theme for this year was “Creepy” and I submitted 3 separate projects. I ended up winning 1st place and all 3 of my entries were in the top 10!

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  • L1ttl3 Paws – Arcade physics platformer with cats!

    L1ttl3 Paws – Arcade physics platformer with cats!

    This year’s JS13k’s theme was “Black Cat” which got me excited because we lost our best boy last year who was a 20+ year old black cat. Still I struggled with an idea for most of the jam. With only a week left I decided to make a Tiny Wings inspire game with cats.

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  • Dr1v3n Wild – Arcade Driving in 13 Kilobytes

    Dr1v3n Wild – Arcade Driving in 13 Kilobytes

    I am excited to share my new game, Dr1v3n Wild! It’s an OutRun inspired racing game with procedurally generated art and levels. This was created for JS13K 2024 and the entire game fits in a 13 kilobyte zip file including art, sound, code, and even the WebGL rendering system. I also released an “enhanced” version

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  • Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers

    Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers

    One of my favorite game jams is the legendary Js13kGames competition, where participants have one month to make a web browser game that fits in a 13 kilobyte zip file. To put that into perspective, a floppy disk from the before times could hold 1.44 MB, enough to fit over 100 JS13K games! In 2021

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  • JavaScript Haikus – My Live Talk for Nerd Nite

    JavaScript Haikus – My Live Talk for Nerd Nite

    Last week I gave a talk about tiny code for Nerd Nite in Austin Texas! This is a more refined version of my previous talk and a great introduction to creative coding and recreational programming. I hope it inspires you to write some of your own tiny programs!

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  • City In A Bottle – A 256 Byte Raycasting System

    City In A Bottle – A 256 Byte Raycasting System

    Hello size coding fans. Today, I have something amazing to share: A tiny raycasting engine and city generator that fits in a standalone 256 byte html file. In this post I will share all the secrets about how this magical program works. Here’s my tweet that contains the code and a video of the output…

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