JoeStrout articles - 100 total
Yes, LLMs understand things
It's now been three years since OpenAI released ChatGPT, taking the world by storm. Even most AI...
Robo-Monty
I'm traveling this week with another family (our neighbors and BFFs), including two pre-teen kids who...
Fathom's Edge: Progress Report #2
In my spare time, I've been working lately on a project called Fathom's Edge, a sort of roguelike RPG...
Proper setup for a MiniScript GitHub repo
GitHub is a great place to store your projects on the web — it's free, it provides powerful version...
Fathom's Edge: Progress Report #1
I've been on vacation this week, doing some traveling with my spouse, who's attending a conference in...
Don't Abuse Lerp!
Many game development environments, including Unity, Godot, and Mini Micro, include a lerp function. ...
Taming local git branches
On rare occasions, I write a blog post that's not about MiniScript. Today is one of those! It...
Hexes and bricks in Mini Micro
The Mini Micro TileDisplay supports a couple of properties whose purpose may not seem immediately...
Other MiniScript Bloggers to Follow
I've been writing about MiniScript and Mini Micro here on dev.to since 2022. But I'm not the only...
Announcing Mini Micro 1.2.4
Mini Micro was updated to version 1.2.4 today. Let's take a quick look at what's new! New...
Mini Micro speaks like a droid!
A video went viral this week showing two AIs talking to each other, as if on the phone (see...
Optimizing Mini Micro for pixel-art games
I recently wrote about why Mini Micro's display is 960 x 640 pixels. In short: that's a reasonably...
Why Mini Micro's Screen is 960x640
New users of Mini Micro often notice very quickly that the screen resolution is fixed; if have a big...
MiniScript: Why "f = function"?
Years ago I wrote a blog post called "Why MiniScript?" It explained the reasons for creating...
How displays work in Mini Micro
I've written here before about Mini Micro's 8-layer display system. Each layer can be configured to...
Daily MiniScript mini-challenges
If you want to get stronger, you exercise every day. If you want to get better at dancing, you dance...
Mini Micro has an "attract mode"!
Mini Micro is the free neo-retro virtual computer that is a popular environment for writing...
Oldest surviving sprite award: Ghost-tiny
Back in the 1980s, I came home from school to happily hack away on the family computer, an Apple //e...
Best New Mini Micro Games
The MiniScript community has been really growing lately, in part due to our partnership with...
Creating a Level Editor for Sub-Optimal
Last month for Micro Jam 018, a game jam with the theme "Water" and restriction "health is power",...
if locals == globals
In MiniScript, as in some other languages, it is common to write a file that's intended to be...
The Making of Solitaire for Mini Micro
Over the weekend I got the urge to create a Solitaire card game for Mini Micro. I completed it...
Make a digital clock in Mini Micro
Today let's do a little project in Mini Micro that makes an old-school digital clock. This will...
Shell Scripting with MiniScript
You can use command-line MiniScript to write shell scripts that can be invoked directly, just like...
Version Checking in MiniScript
MiniScript runs in a lot of different environments. Moreover, the language itself changes from time...
Wang 2-Corner Tiles
There is a trick commonly used to draw terrain in RPG games, walls in maze games, islands and...
Demo Highlight: cardFlip
Hello world! Today I want to highlight another of the demos that come with Mini Micro:...
The making of Kip and the Caves of Lava
Last weekend I participated in Micro Jam 013, which had a theme of "Lava" and a prerequisite of "Time...
HWYDT: Snake Game
One of the most classic video games is generically known as "Snake". In this game, you play a long...
Directional Inputs in Mini Micro
This week we're going to look at several ways to get directional inputs in Mini Micro, whether that's...