The Tariff Busting Map Game

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Introduction: The Egg CrisisIn a world where breakfast has become a luxury, an evil empire has imposed crippling tariffs on eggs, sending prices skyrocketing. Omelettes are now a distant memory for the average citizen, and scrambled eggs are a delicacy only the wealthy can afford. But hope is not lost! Rebel forces have uncovered a loophole in the empire’s trade barriers – by launching eggs Maps Mania… more →
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Your Daily Map Trivia Game

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TripGeo Trivia is a new daily geography quiz which requires you to identify ten cities based on a number of clues. Every day ten new random cities from around the world need to be identified. To help you in this task you can view three clues as to the identity of each city.Every day you get to identify ten new cities. For each city you get three clues and a choice of possible answers. Using the Maps Mania… more →
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The Lost Pathfinder Game

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The Lost Pathfinder is a new online game which requires players to connect a path from one side of map to the other.At the beginning of each round of The Lost Pathfinder you are presented with an isometric grid on which all the road tiles have been mixed up. All you have to do is to rearrange the road tiles in order to complete a path from one side of the map to the other. To help you restore Maps Mania… more →
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Game Dev Diary – Cat Herder – Part 2

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Welcome to my second game diary for [Cat Herder, which I’m subtitling – "Rise of the Machines". This update is all about the ‘machine’ aspect of the game. Let me explain. Right now each cat (well, you can only have one unless you cheat) has three needs you must manually take care by clicking the right button to match the mood. The idea of the machine feature is that they will automatically handle this for you, providing you have enough of them and the right type. The first thing I needed to figure out was how to enable this feature. I decided on a one time check to see if you have 75 or more purrs (the currency of the game). This is a one-time check because as... more →
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Game Dev Diary – Cat Herder – Part 1

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Over a year ago, I released my first "idle clicker" game, IdleFleet. IdleFleet is a simple "space merchant" game built with Alpine.js. I’ve worked on it off and on since the initial release (which was in Vue.js by the way) and still have updates I want to add, but a few weeks ago I started work on a new game I’d like to share with you, Cat Herder. The Game # Cat Herder is very much in its early stages so while I’ll (eventually) link to it, you can’t do much with it now. The basic idea is that you have one cat… to start with that is – and have to keep it happy. Cats have three basic moods: Wanting to be left alone Wanting to be fed Wanting... more →
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Earth Nose Game Champion 2024

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Welcome to the 2024 Earth Nose Game World Championship! This year’s event promises to be the most exciting and innovative yet, as players from around the globe gather to showcase their unique skills and compete for the coveted title of World Earth Nose Champion. Players in this year’s competition will have to be at the very top of their nasal game as the 2024 Nose Game World Championship Maps Mania… more →
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Using Generative AI to Organize Video Game Screenshots

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Way back in January (remember January), I wrote a blog post describing how to use gen ai to improve image filenames. This worked by uploading the image to Google Gemini, asking for a short description, and using that description for a new filename. Recently I was thinking about that demo and was curious how well it would work for video games. As always, I did a few quick tests in Google AI Studio. I did some quick Googling for various games and screenshots, and the results were pretty impressive. Here are three mostly modern examples: And here’s a first failure, identifying this as Final Fantasy 14, not 16. It did well for one really old game, although to be fair the name is in the picture: Although... more →
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The City Map Game

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I really like the game SF-Street-Names, which I reviewed Monday in the post The Streets of San Francisco Game. In fact I liked SF-Street-Names so much that I immediately started trying to see if I could replicate the game for a different city. In Monday’s post I linked to my quick demo map Denver Street Names, which was a very quick hack of a SF-Street-Names type game for Denver.Today I decided Maps Mania… more →
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