What's Happening Now

Follow up on the latest things I'm doing right now.

What's Happening Now
You remember this garden as a maze, but not the right one.

Last updated: 16 Feb 2025

🧗đŸģ Activities I'm participating in

  • Playdate community hangout: Chatting with other Playdate game developers and enthusiasts every Friday at 21:00 EST (2:00 UTC) on the Playdate Squad Discord server.

🛠ī¸ Stuff I'm working on

  • What the Taiji?!: Taiji puzzles for the Playdate
    • Grids: A puzzle editor for What the Taiji?! in Love2D (and, for Apple devices, SwiftUI)
  • Indexing Your Heart: A Witness-like puzzle game with story elements about self discovery and identity
  • Alidade: A native Minecraft Java seed map app for Mac, iPhone, and iPad
  • Maintaining this website: Migrating to a self-hosted Ghost instance on DigitalOcean.

📖 Books I'm reading

  • Legends and Lattes - Travis Baldtree
  • The You You Are: Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD

🕹ī¸ Games I'm playing

  • Minecraft (Bedrock/Java): Playing a small survival "forever world" for myself, but also sharing a Realm with my friends
  • Balatro
  • Rowbot Rally
  • Puzzmo: Gotta get that Bongo somehow!
  • Understand

đŸŽĨ Things I'm watching

🎓 Stuff I'm learning

  • Playdate SDK: Learning how to create pixel-perfect and performant games for the Playdate with the C/Lua libraries and tools
  • Love2D: Learning how to use the framework to build applications in Lua
  • Blender: Creating fun little animations and other 3D-based content