Hacking the Grepson

Game development of sorts continues at Hacking the Grepson. This time, it's Matt's daily game creation: Messcipe. He tells Mike all about it, and then Mike responds to various things Matt says. You know how it is by now, right?

* Messcipe

It's been a minute since we talked about the current state (as we two devs know it) of Artificial Intelligence, at least in its use by LLMs and software development. Matt and Mike get into it.

Mike finds a curious developer's website and notices it using Javascript to somewhat nefarious effects. It leads him down a path of state-of-the-web discovery, and he brings Matt into the fray.

How you stylize your editor of choice is often a personal choice, but there are those who feel strongly enough about how to do it that they write a whole blog post about it. Matt and Mike dive into some opinions about Christmas lights and light vs dark mode.

* I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong

Mike wants to do a funky thing, but runs into problems. Can Matt help Mike solve his trip-ups? Only the ultimate dancers will prevail.

It's time for more game development chat! Last episode we brainstormed some ideas and a Balatro-like darts game came up, so this episode Matt and Mike talk about some prototyping they've been doing in that vein.

Matt and Mike are slowly but surely making their way back to the core of Season 2 of this podcast: making a game. Clarifications of what is needed for a game to their liking are made, and some roguelite ideas are thrown around. Will this re-kickstart their gamedev quest? Time will tell.

A spirited discussion ensues between Matt and Mike the merits and detractors of dimensionality as it pertains to video game graphics.

Matt and Mike are still out for various reasons, to surely return soon for more programming patter. However, there is a conflagration of quirky kinfolk descending upon the San Diego, CA area in order to celebrate all things nerdy and geeky, and perhaps you might be interested?

Matt and Mike are out this week traveling. Just wanted to say hello, anyway.