There is a known filmmakers manifest called **Dogma 95**, which was proclaimed to make movies more authentic, simple and devoid of unnecessary visual and audial effects, stage props and camera tricks. The movies that are made following this manifest are very minimalistic, focusing on dramatic action and the natural filming locations. The manifest consists of 10 rueles. Because mechanically mapping these rules to the game development field makes little sense, I've made some changes to adopt the Dogma-95 to the gamedev and keep the spirit of the original.

When making a dialogue-based game, a dedicated tool is an important part of your workflow. I've checked all the existing dialogue authoring tools and decided to made my own.

Two years later, site is back

I've made a benchmark demo to test Pyjsdl performance. Source code is available.

Running Pygame in a browser: revisiting Pyjsdl and making it work with Python 3

I've ported my 2019 Game Maker Studio game to Unity engine. The game is available on itch.io.

Cantus firmus (cantus firmi in plural) is the term for the melodies existing in Medieval European music tradition that were used by composers as a base for writing polyphonic compositions. But the cantus firmi themselves were written based on a strict set of rules. This gives us the ability to generate such melodies programmatically.

Since Adam Sawicki's site that hosted a copy of Marco Monster's famous "Car physics tutorial" has given up the ghost, I've put a copy online myself.

A foundation for a raycasting game.

Finally, I've released the software I use to make this blog.