"Give someone state and they'll have a bug one day, but teach them how to represent state in two separate locations that have to be kept in sync and they'll have bugs for a lifetime."-ryg (This ...

Abstract: “Alice in Codeland” is a gamified course designed to introduce Web programming through HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP, incorporating game mechanics inspired by Haro Aso’s “Alice in ...

Over the last few weeks, I created a computer game set in the Arctic. Or maybe I’ve been working on it since 1981. It all depends on how you count. All I know for sure is that I programmed the ...

Consumer-grade dev software helps turn your concepts into real products, with no previous coding experience required. Chase your game-making dreams with the top tools we've tested. My PCMag career ...

There are many ways to create wonderful stories, and using software (besides words) is one of them. Interactive fiction, for instance, is an interesting way of storytelling where you, as the reader or ...

These days, the best iPhone apps can be a challenge to find, due to there being almost two million apps available to download in the App Store. You're usually reduced to checking the top charts to see ...

Scrolling through Twitter and lurking in artificial intelligence communities over the past few months, I’ve seen a lot of big claims. In the few days since OpenAI unveiled its GPT-4 model, those have ...

The ReadME Project amplifies the voices of the open source community: the maintainers, developers, and teams whose contributions move the world forward every day. The goal of Candy Wrapper is simple: ...

The mid to late 2000s featured a particularly prevalent trend of extending a game’s reach by porting it to as many platforms as possible, regardless of whether or not those platforms were a good fit.

The news that old-school adventure game pioneers Roberta and Ken Williams are returning to gaming after 25 years with a virtual reality version of classic game Colossal Cave got me thinking about how ...