It's December, which means it's Advent of Code time! Taking a break from our "Let's Make a Game!" project to instead help elves figure out programming problems is what this episode is all about. Matt and Mike go over the first 6 days of logic conundrums.

* https://adventofcode.com

More words and thoughts and ideas and progress on our combined efforts at figured out both Defold and Love2D to make a game. Matt talks about playing around with his slingshot prototype and Mike talks about rejiggering his entire Astronaut tutorial so he can load a different level.

Mike shares some updates on the game-making progress achieved recently (still no finished game to share with each other yet, but working on it!).

Matt and Mike continue their Let's Make a Game experiment, spending time going over the progress made so far in their Love2D and Defold prototypes. Matt also shows how Claude works on the command line and Mike is entranced.

Matt and Mike check in again on their progress of making a game. More discussion ensues about preferences, recent games played, and about Defold and Love2D, including some recent efforts made by both.

Matt and Mike continue to discuss more details about the game they're going to make. On this episode the decision of which engine/language/IDE they're going to primarily use is made...sort of.

Our new season, focused solely on making a video game of some sort, continues apace. This is a lengthy one, filled with discussions of game mechanics, likes/dislikes, and potential ideas to follow up on. Matt and Mike don't know what they're going to make yet, but they're getting further into what about games they enjoy (or don't).

For Season 2 of Hacking the Grepson, we're going to make a game! What kind of game? Which platform(s)? What genre/theme/setting? Who knows?! Let's try to start attempting to figure it out.

We've done a hundred episodes of this podcast. Wow. Matt and Mike come to terms with this fact, and perhaps give an idea of what's to come with the next hundred episodes.

You can't always do everything by yourself. That's when you need a group of people! Are those people working towards a common goal? Well, then you might have a team. Matt and Mike, as a team, talk about the benefits of such cooperation.