https://blog.khutchins.com/ Recent content on blog.khutchins.com Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 04 Jan 2026 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2026-goals/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2026-goals/ Establishing new goals for 2026. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/chip-8-emulation-xo-chip-2/ Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/chip-8-emulation-xo-chip-2/ Coming back three years later to finally add sound support to my XO-Chip emulator. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/making-a-very-bad-scripting-language-3/ Sat, 13 Dec 2025 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/making-a-very-bad-scripting-language-3/ I'm finally doing it. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/making-a-very-bad-scripting-language-2/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/making-a-very-bad-scripting-language-2/ Tiny language, tiny grammar. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/making-a-very-bad-scripting-language/ Fri, 28 Nov 2025 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/making-a-very-bad-scripting-language/ It turns out, languages can be very small. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/if-you-love-a-game-let-it-go/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/if-you-love-a-game-let-it-go/ Leave a few corners unexplored. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2024-retrospective/ Mon, 18 Aug 2025 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2024-retrospective/ A look back at my goals and accomplishments for game dev in 2024. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2025-goals/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2025-goals/ Establishing a new goal for 2025. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/making-a-very-bad-data-serialization-language/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/making-a-very-bad-data-serialization-language/ Something I should never use. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/making-a-dungeon-crawler-2/ Sun, 01 Sep 2024 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/making-a-dungeon-crawler-2/ Connecting the Dots with Some ink. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/making-a-dungeon-crawler-1/ Fri, 16 Aug 2024 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/making-a-dungeon-crawler-1/ Making Maps and Making Names. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2023-retrospective/ Thu, 15 Aug 2024 07:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2023-retrospective/ A look back at my goals and accomplishments for game dev in 2023. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2024-goals/ Fri, 12 Jan 2024 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2024-goals/ Establishing new goals for 2024. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/champions-of-shond-retrospective/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/champions-of-shond-retrospective/ Making one of my most ambitious projects to date. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2022-retrospective/ Tue, 11 Apr 2023 07:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2022-retrospective/ A look back at my goals and accomplishments for game dev in 2022. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2023-goals/ Fri, 23 Dec 2022 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2023-goals/ Establishing new goals for 2023. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/better-text-boxes-2/ Sun, 11 Dec 2022 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/better-text-boxes-2/ Have a natural rhythm to your text boxes. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/illusion-of-productivity/ Sat, 03 Dec 2022 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/illusion-of-productivity/ Be careful about what you measure. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/better-text-boxes-1/ Sun, 27 Nov 2022 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/better-text-boxes-1/ Avoid the biggest trap when it comes to animating text boxes. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/making-an-infinite-maze/ Thu, 27 Oct 2022 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/making-an-infinite-maze/ Either harder or easier than you might think. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/catching-my-white-whale/ Mon, 11 Jul 2022 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/catching-my-white-whale/ Ahh! 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My path to finishing a game that I started forever ago. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/making-a-new-solitaire/ Sun, 26 Jun 2022 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/making-a-new-solitaire/ Game design straight out of the 1800s. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/hugo-series-links/ Sat, 07 May 2022 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/hugo-series-links/ How to link to the previous and next items in a series. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/make-bad-things/ Fri, 06 May 2022 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/make-bad-things/ There's nothing wrong with not being perfect. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2021-retrospective/ Wed, 04 May 2022 07:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2021-retrospective/ A look back at my goals and accomplishments for game dev in 2021. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/chip-8-emulation-xo-chip/ Tue, 03 May 2022 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/chip-8-emulation-xo-chip/ My experience being the latest person to write an XO-Chip emulator. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2020-retrospective/ Fri, 04 Feb 2022 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2020-retrospective/ A look back at my goals and accomplishments for game dev in 2020. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/chip-8-emulation-superchip/ Tue, 18 Jan 2022 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/chip-8-emulation-superchip/ My experience being the latest person to write a Super-Chip emulator. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2022-goals/ Sun, 16 Jan 2022 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2022-goals/ Establishing new goals for 2022. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/chip-8-emulation/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/chip-8-emulation/ My experience being the latest person to write a CHIP-8 emulator. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2019-retrospective-2/ Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:00:00 -0700 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2019-retrospective-2/ A look back at my goals and accomplishments for game dev in the latter half of 2019. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/unity-programmatic-menus-3/ Thu, 09 Sep 2021 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/unity-programmatic-menus-3/ Support going from menu to menu. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2019-retrospective-1/ Wed, 01 Sep 2021 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/2019-retrospective-1/ A look back at my goals and accomplishments for game dev in the first half of 2019. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/unity-programmatic-menus-2/ Wed, 19 May 2021 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/unity-programmatic-menus-2/ Support different menu groupings that you can swap between with just a few lines in a configuration class. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/unity-programmatic-menus-1/ Sat, 24 Apr 2021 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/unity-programmatic-menus-1/ Add menu elements without worrying about tweaking input positions, or fiddling with UI input scripts in the inspector. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/phaser-3-inputs-ac/ Sun, 14 Feb 2021 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/phaser-3-inputs-ac/ Adding vibration support that won't make everyone who happens to have a controller plugged in curse your name. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/phaser-3-inputs-ab/ Fri, 12 Feb 2021 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/phaser-3-inputs-ab/ Dead zones or: how I learned to stop slowly moving to the right and suppress unwanted movement. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/phaser-3-inputs-aa/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/phaser-3-inputs-aa/ I expose the deep, dark secret behind my input system, and why I didn't reveal it until now. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/phaser-3-inputs-5/ Mon, 08 Feb 2021 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/phaser-3-inputs-5/ How to add mouse support and some thoughts on adapting your game to work with mouse inputs, not mouse inputs to work with your game. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/phaser-3-inputs-4/ Sat, 06 Feb 2021 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/phaser-3-inputs-4/ How to take the existing input system and add axis support in a non-obtrusive and adaptable way. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/phaser-3-inputs-3/ Thu, 04 Feb 2021 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/phaser-3-inputs-3/ A guide to combining and modifying inputs that allows you to express complex input structures in easily consumable ways. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/phaser-3-inputs-2/ Tue, 02 Feb 2021 08:00:00 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/phaser-3-inputs-2/ How to support controller input alongside keyboard input without having to write input-specific code for each. https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/phaser-3-inputs-1/ Sun, 31 Jan 2021 09:15:35 -0800 https://blog.khutchins.com/posts/phaser-3-inputs-1/ My journey from having written short, concise code to handle inputs to writing an over-engineered bit of code that would handle the busywork for me.