How to enjoy playing with your child
It may sound completely off to you, having to ask this question – but then you’re sitting with your toddler, at the end of a long day, and the thought of playing [insert your least…
Author Archives: Florian
5-minute-madness as a tool for motivation and productivity
In this post, I want to introduce you to a method I’ve started using over the last years which usually had positive effects: Lifting my mood up, getting me out of a rut, allowing me…
Cargo: A sci-fi point & click adventure game
Cargo is a small point & click adventure game I developed in 2014 while taking part in the “Online Drawing Class” by Michael Musal (https://mikescreationblog.wordpress.com/). The game is built with the Adventure Game Studio ( https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/…
Raycaster Experiment
I read and loved the amazing book Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D by Fabien Sanglard. If you have even the slightest interest in game development and especially how they did coding “back in the days”, you really…
Changing Fritz!Box static routes with node.js
For a personal project related to home automation, I wanted to be able to set up static routes on my Fritz!Box from the command line. So, basically to automate the following part of the Fritz!Box…
Debugging z-machine code
I’ve recently been working on reverse-engineering the parser and game code of an Infocom interactive fiction game. In future posts, I will write more about the findings and the process. In this post, I am…
Porting TADS to the browser
This is one of my most recent projects (at least those that I get around to writing about…). I recently got infatuated again with Interactive Fiction, played through Ballyhoo by Infocom as well as took…
Tokyo VR Arcade
During my first visit to Japan this spring, I took the chance of visiting Bandai Namco’s “VR Zone – Project i can” Virtual Reality test arcade. This a prototype arcade featuring six VR experiences. Note:…
SteamQuest & Kha.Vr
SteamQuest is the demo game for Kha.Vr, the extension to Kha (http://tech.ktxsoftware.com/) that allows the creation of VR games. There will be more information here in the coming days, so check back if you want…
Gear VR Development
After my iPhone ended up looking like this: and my frustration with Apple, iTunes & co. reached a new height, I decided it was time to get a new phone. And since I had been…