In November of 2023, I participated in Tildes’ annual Backlog Burner event. It’s a community-run event where participants play through unfinished titles in their gaming libraries. As somebody with a backlog that never seems to shrink, this seemed like the perfect opportunity to finally make some progress in mine.
Melvor Idle is an idle (or “incremental”) game based around the RuneScape IP. I started playing this one during a period where I was put out by renovations and had no office space. It kept me busy and paired well with audiobooks, another hobby of mine.
For those with large Steam libraries, trading cards have been a way of earning store credit in exchange for a little time. They can be listed on the Steam market where you’ll receive a few cents for each card purchased. With enough cards, this can add up.
I’ve spent my last few weekends working on a new web app. Similar to Steampunk Spider, this tool was built to aid in repetitive mod tasks. It was written for the Dark Souls network of subreddits.
I’ve recently taken a liking to Tildes.net. It’s still a small community, but it feels much more comfortable than the wild west of other social networking sites.
A couple days ago I had an idea for a new puzzle game. The mechanic would be based on size, where the player must grow or shrink to navigate the level. They do this by collecting various powerups, and must collect them all to complete the level.
I’ve been using a custom stylesheet to hide karma on reddit for the last few years. First using Stylish, then migrating to Stylus after privacy concerns were raised.
One of the things I love about Minecraft is how open its modding community is. Despite the game never being designed for it, a vibrant modding ecosystem has emerged upon which thousands of mods have been developed.
I recently finished my second Minecraft mod, titled Nutrition.
Watering Cans is a mod written for Minecraft. It adds 4 types of watering cans to help speed up early-game farming.
GameDeal Hunt was an Easter egg hunt thought up by myself and the other /r/GameDeals mods. The idea was to create a series of puzzles for the community which let them win prizes for completion.
Steampunk Spider is a tool I wrote for the /r/GameDeals community to make it easier to generate tables for large Steam sales. It was my first big Javascript project and my first foray into open source.