2025, eh? What a blast.
This year saw an incredible burst of creativity and exploration. I started the year shipping a multi-player arcade racing game for Sega Dreamcast, coded in bed making games on iOS using Love2D, made a little game that won at a PC gamejam thanks to Atari & Jeff Minter, and created everything from browser games to number one DJ mixes. One big milestone was my Macintosh Magazine Media project surpassed 1 million files (that’s over 30 million uncompressed files). Nerd alert!
The year also brought significant challenges—navigating community harassment led me to step back from the Playdate scene after nearly six years of creative work there. I decided to bang a drum about that and I now donate all of my Playdate earnings to charity. This year also opened new doors: I landed my dream job and am now building a game studio and creating my dream game. Pretty cool.
Through it all, I kept creating, kept learning, and kept sharing. Still trying to launch some apps and games that have been finished for months or years, and that I use myself every day. Maybe in 2026.
How many posts?
- 43 posts (up from 32 in 2024)
Most popular posts
According to Google Analytics, my 5 most popular posts in 2025 were (most popular first):
- How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet (11 Oct)
- Slugs on a Cube: interactive animation (16 Jan)
- When Playdate Stopped Being Fun (15 Apr)
- Intelligent Agent Technology: Open Sesame! (1993) (31 May)
- Wormhole for Perplexity Comet (21 Aug)
Best of the rest
My personal favourites from the year (most recent first):
- Music recommendations (2025) (12 Dec)
- Donating my Playdate earnings to The Cybersmile Foundation (02 Aug)
- Amazfit activity tracker and watch face asset generation (11 Apr)
- Station: Travel Through the Four Seasons (1994) (30 Mar)
- DREAM RIDE for Sega Dreamcast (and emulators) (05 Jan)
Still going strong
The following posts keep on truckin’ (most popular first):
- Turning an iPad Pro into the Ultimate Classic Macintosh (17 Apr 2021)
- Going back to the old (pre-X) Twitter iOS app (17 Aug 2023)
- Pairing a Wii remote on macOS (21 Mar 2023)
- Pixel-Perfect retro gaming on LCD 480p EDTVs (06 May 2021)
- YOYOZO (or, how I made a Playdate game in 39KB) (21 Nov 2023)
Blog changelog
- Improved replacement of “nouns” which are automatically-emphasised words (6 Mar, 11 May)
- Improved sitemap and feed XML (14 Apr)
- Added support for comments links to Bluesky and Mastodon (23 Apr)
- Added wishlist of hard-to-find stuff (8 Aug)