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v buckenham

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199 from 8 Oct 2010 to 17 Sep 2026
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2026 15

  1. Last night I did visuals at Algorave Decelerate
  2. the values of Ireland or Revachol
  3. "Directed by Ray Blanchard"
  4. More Fringe shows!
  5. Edinburgh Fringe Shows I Have Seen Over The Past Two Days
  6. More visuals gigs!
  7. I was on The Secret Lives of Games, talking about Helix
  8. I built Picodevil using an LLM
  9. Announcing: Picodevil
  10. Announcing: Tools for Creativity at the School For Poetic Computation
  11. Why I Disagree With Mike (Livecoding Is Not The Future)
  12. I'm doing visuals on the 27th
  13. Downpour at The Photographers' Gallery (and how to make a receipt printer thing for an exhibition)
  14. Return of the Sausage
  15. I oiled a lock

2025 58

  1. what i'm working on
  2. Cool Tool: Croonify
  3. How did you get into games, V?
  4. I learn more about p5.js
  5. Apologies, this post is about AI
  6. Stop using p5.js
  7. On Palestine
  8. I will be at A MAZE 2025
  9. i played Despelote
  10. Knife, Fork, Spoon v2
  11. Lying about cutlery
  12. a blogpost about not having written a blogpost in a while
  13. screenshot dump
  14. Two things I read today about paradoxical abundance (and one thing that isn't)
  15. Monopoly now has expansions
  16. Play-pril Day 11
  17. the state of lying
  18. how i'm feeling
  19. Now Play This has ended
  20. Games For People (the folk game zine)
  21. Some things I've read recently
  22. New Downpour update!
  23. [spoilers] no-one needs my thoughts on Severance
  24. Liar's Shuffle (Play-pril Day 1: FOOL)
  25. Hard news from Berlin
  26. Wiggly health, wiggly graph
  27. They want to cut PIP
  28. I watched Adolescence
  29. How to stay warm
  30. the case for definitions
  31. some icons
  32. not by pastagang
  33. some recent sentences
  34. An actually interesting and actually existing game that uses LLM technology
  35. it's my birthday
  36. a blog post written sideways
  37. keep your models close
  38. Goodhart's Law
  39. Cool Tool: Ghost House
  40. The Year Of The Blog
  41. But what can you play on it?
  42. The first commercial release of a Downpour game
  43. Can You Pet The Dog?
  44. On creating desire
  45. some good writing about desire
  46. meta post
  47. A Game That's Better Than Expected
  48. let code die
  49. Karaoke Songs
  50. notes from clown school
  51. ways to make the text bigger
  52. i got ill
  53. 2024 Wrap Up
  54. The scrub weaves the circle
  55. Notes on moving my phone charger so it's not next to my bed any more
  56. non designed game design
  57. how to rest
  58. My previous blog

2024 2

  1. Downpour is out!
  2. Downpour will launch on 6th March 2024

2023 1

  1. A talk: How To Find Things Online

2022 10

  1. Notes on Twitter, 28th October 2022
  2. Epicycles
  3. CW: Mastodon
  4. New project: Frog Chorus
  5. Collective backups
  6. Announcing: Downpour
  7. CBDQ update : videos, every two hours
  8. Making Room for people with chronic illnesses
  9. r_g_b.html
  10. Let's Chat

2020 1

  1. In Praise of Chorded Input

2019 3

  1. Apple is a type of food that restores 4 Hunger Points.
  2. How To Make Christmas Kye
  3. 20 Games I Played Or Did Not Play In 2018

2018 4

  1. the greens
  2. a manifesto of creative acts
  3. no record is kept of what you say to your friend. feel free to tell them anything.
  4. 2017 year-in-review

2017 5

  1. New recordings of the machine gently stutters ❏❐❑❒
  2. bot of the day
  3. 2016 year-in-review
  4. hair - a visual essay
  5. online consequences

2016 6

  1. Some videogames I liked in 2016
  2. Reasons I'm Excited For VR
  3. A Game To Fall Asleep To
  4. Robot Picnic
  5. My 2015
  6. Twelve Games About Counting

2015 10

  1. The Literature of Totality
  2. NaNoGenMo entries I have seen, Pt 1
  3. Videogames That Go Squish - my talk from Bees In A Tin
  4. Feral Vector Bot Workshop
  5. A Philosophy of Tools For Novices
  6. Some Twitter bots
  7. Twine Workshop results
  8. Twine Workshop Resources
  9. a game for walking home
  10. Monogamy, a game for lovers

2014 3

  1. I love multicoloured slush
  2. A reading list for game developers
  3. Some good things that happened at GDC in 2014

2013 10

  1. Twine tasting
  2. .tws to .twee converter
  3. Oculus Rift Guillotine Simulator
  4. object jam (early entry category)
  5. A Unity3D pattern I've not seen discussed
  6. Valve and externalized labour
  7. A list of single joke games
  8. What's a game? (part one billion)
  9. Rules for making games
  10. Font : Fiona

2012 15

  1. Tools For Making Games
  2. Rolling A Joint
  3. Some Depressing Thoughts On The App Store
  4. A Giant Wall Of Dice
  5. Remembrance
  6. Panlids: Resurrection
  7. The story of Silt
  8. Tutorial sections
  9. Holding the baby
  10. Generous game design
  11. I don't know where to look
  12. What we mean when we talk about stories in games
  13. How to make your first videogame
  14. Second-order design, and choice.
  15. The usefulness of proceedurality

2011 13

  1. Publicly promising things
  2. Mr Bubble Amidst GameCity
  3. Clandestine Candy
  4. Working though the combinations (I don't understand Flash)
  5. Fight or flee
  6. The point of gamejams.
  7. Unity sometimes makes me a little bit sad.
  8. Bioinformatics 23andme SNP Top Trumps Fantasy Game Design
  9. Games without end.
  10. I think they call it "ambient computing"?
  11. Does Minecraft have a win condition?
  12. Blog posts are hard to write.
  13. Worklog

2010 9

  1. Small parts, loosely joined.
  2. Work Log - Singing and colliding
  3. Work Log
  4. Work Log
  5. Why is it hard to do cool things?
  6. Headband Work Log - A Single LED Turns On
  7. My favourite famous programmer...
  8. Work Log
  9. Videogames are sold like videogames

Undated 34

  1. Building ramps to extend corgispace 2
  2. Things i have learned writing custom shaders for hydra
  3. I went to the new v a east storehouse
  4. The politics of humiliation
  5. Discord channels
  6. Things to read on craft
  7. Travel journal
  8. Travel journal 2 the plaques of kelvingrove
  9. Glasgow indie games fest roundup
  10. Things to read what can you say
  11. Cohost repost real moon fake moon
  12. I miss globalisation
  13. I think there is something to the british national character that resists the idea of a national id card system
  14. Two boardgames that play with the box 2
  15. I was a child of the house
  16. Flipping ten heads in a row
  17. Baby steps
  18. Playing some demos
  19. Two videos
  20. Paying attention to trees
  21. Calling myself an artist
  22. I saw the play you look okay to me
  23. Database games
  24. The future of indie games
  25. Good website antiquebuildings co uk
  26. Pottery open studio report 2
  27. A greasy ai feeling
  28. Boardgames you could make
  29. The polaris list
  30. The 88x31 button spec
  31. I just passed my driving theory test
  32. Some thoughts about tool design and ai
  33. Six thousand words on the seven part pact 2
  34. Make a chatbot about it