A little known feature of Sparrow Solitaire is its ability to load user-generated content from files copied onto the Playdate. One day I thought it would be cool to combine two tile sets, so I built a web app to do it! A wild tile set builder appears! https://sparrowsolitaire.com … | Continue reading
A while ago I bought a 2.5” Crucial SSD and a UGREEN USB 3.1 Gen 2 Hard Drive Enclosure (SKU: 70499) on which to keep some working files whilst connected to a Mac mini. I used that on macOS 10.13 High Sierra, 10.14 Mojave, and 11 Big Sur (I skipped 10.15 Catalina). Over the years … | Continue reading
I’ve previously written about the Playdate game Sparrow Solitaire, when we released the Early Access version of the game. That was almost 9 months ago and a lot has changed! This week the hugely expanded full version of the game released on itch.io, where it’s been for sale for a … | Continue reading
I’ve been obsessed with The Great Wave (or its more literal title: Under the Wave, Off Kanagawa) since the mid-1990s. This Japanese woodblock print designed by Katsushika Hokusai is one of the world’s most iconic works of art. You’ve probably seen it crop up in a whole host of sc … | Continue reading
Safari 16.4 has some breaking changes (fixes?) to CSS, which means Polyglot the Safari Extension by Yasuaki Uechi that I use every day no longer displays its popup. Oh no! It turns out that some 6-year-old CSS and recent changes in WebKit mean the translation popup disappears imm … | Continue reading
Universal If you’re using the Dolphin emulator, by far the easiest method of syncing a Wii remote with it is to use a cheap Bluetooth adapter and Dolphin’s “Passthrough a Bluetooth adapter” controller option. If you want to use the Wii remote outside of Dolphin, the easiest way i … | Continue reading
Yes, the iPhone Xs came out in 2018. I thought it would be interesting to review it in 2023. Plus, I only just bought one! I hung on to the old home-button form factor for as long as I could, using a 6s for the longest time, but two things made me move to an edge-to-edge phone: … | Continue reading
Sometimes after posting to Twitter I’ll decide that I should really archive the information as a blog post. For single tweets that’s as easy (or difficult) as copying the text and images and publishing. For Twitter threads, it could be a lot more complicated. With a bit of latera … | Continue reading
I’ve been falling behind watching Masahiro Sakurai’s game development videos, so decided to subscribe to his YouTube channel using RSS. This is as simple as plugging the channel URL https://youtube.com/@sora_sakurai_en into your RSS feed reader. BUT only the most recent 15 videos … | Continue reading
2022 was a mixed year for me. I secured my own studio and continued to be hugely productive, creating some of my best ever work. Unfortunately, I experienced multiple traumatic events, and their lingering effects knocked out the last third of the year and beyond. Life-changing, a … | Continue reading
My favourite artist is Kawase Hasui (1883–1957) who was a printmaker during Japan’s shin-hanga (“new prints”) movement of woodblock printing in the early 20th century. I’m lucky enough to own a book containing his complete collection of his prints, as well as many other books fea … | Continue reading
At the start of December I decided to do a sort of “gaming advent calendar”, a single-tweet review of a bunch of my favourite video games. I’m collecting them here for posterity. Hopefully you will find something of interest in the list. Each tweet contained: hashtag #GamingAdve … | Continue reading
I have a Becker Traffic Pro 7949 car audio and navigation system in my LHD Renault Twingo mk1. This unit, effectively a re-badged Becker Cascade with a green OLED screen rather than colour, was bundled with high-end sports cars of German and Italian origin, but I added one to my … | Continue reading
This weekend I’m taking part in Christmas Open Studios at Krowji in Redruth. FRI 2nd Dec, 5pm–9pm SAT 3rd Dec, 10am–4pm SUN 4th Dec, 10am–4pm See you there!? You’ll be able to buy my art and play my games. More info: https://www.krowji.org.uk/open-studios/ | Continue reading
The re-recorded version of “Ride on Time” (featuring an uncredited Heather Small on vocals) released in the UK on Deconstruction Records. It was (re)made as the original samples couldn’t be cleared. The track’s success is what gave us M People, for better or worse. Sadly this v … | Continue reading
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Tenohira Hanafuda Kai (掌花札 kai) is a koi-koi card game for Palm OS, created in 2001 by Hiroki Takahashi. It’s a fun game with varying difficulty, stats tracking, and lovely high-resolution (for the time!) colour graphics. But, it has one serious problem: sometimes it will forfeit … | Continue reading