adam le doux

bitsy will be ten years old in october!

now that i've got a codeberg page, i decided i wanted to open source a couple of game engines i made for the game boy advance: tchotchke: this is the GBA engine i wrote on my phone recently. you can use it to create minimal bitsylike games - it has support

as of today, i've moved the bitsy and bitsybox repositories from github to codeberg. bitsy has been on github since i first released it almost a decade ago (!)

it recently occurred to me that it would be possible to make a gba game entirely on my phone - once it did, i couldn't get the idea out of my head until i'd tried it so, i made a short bitsylike game called TO THE TOWER - you can download it from itch.io…

earlier this year i wrote a game for casio calculators, and shared the tool i made for converting twine stories into BASIC: tweeul8r. now i've extended that tool so it can also export stories as static HTML - which in turn allows them to be converted into…

i played colossal cave adventure for the first time today!

running on my game boy micro of the many good reasons to be upset about the LLM craze being pushed by the tech industry, the thing that irritates me on a personal level is the insistence that not only should it not be necessary to understand how computers…

Laura surveys the landscape of IKEA’s playmats

here are some highlights from things i've read on my kindle recently!

my friend Clayton made this catalog of specialty license plates from every state - there are several fun ones in here but I think the bowling plate from West Virginia is my favorite :)

we've been out and about in the sunny weather and i've been taking a few photos - here are a few i thought turned out nice!

i got an old casio graphing calculator at goodwill a few years back, and recently i felt like playing around with it again - there's something really neat about having a little programmable computer that fits in your hand and is powered by AA-batteries, y…

here's a few things i enjoyed reading recently: cave story revisited by phantom situates cave story in its historical context, and takes it as a jumping off point to discuss the intersecting histories of several gamemaking scenes: shareware, doujin soft,…

long time, no blog!

if you've been reading my blog recently, you know that making videogames with bookmarklets has become a bit of a preoccupation of mine (lol) in the process of making snakelet and WIZARD GARDEN i set some constraints for myself that i found interesting and…

hey, remember bookmarklets?

2025 continues to be the year of the bookmarklet here at adam le doux dot net~ this time i've written a mini-manifesto >:D bookmarklets forever!

i’ve never used pokemon home but this was fascinating to read

at first i wasn’t sure about vampire weekend’s latest album, but it’s been growing on me with repeated listens i’m particularly into the track “pravda” at the moment

i put on a beth’s record this morning!

been in the shower, thinking hazy shower thoughts, when the soap slips out of your hands at just the right angle to slide entirely out of our universe - into whatever sudsy dimension lost bars of soap congregate - never to be seen again?

my bookmarklet games got a shout out in Laura’s weekly roundup - yay!

thanks to the current bitsy jam theme i've been on a bit of a snake kick... and anyway, as the title of this post says, i made snake in a bookmarklet!

v is pulling on some interesting threads in this post - archives, ephemerality, creativity i’m looking forward to following all the links

phone too big

i added a page on my website to collect the bookmarklets i've been making recently!

dear reader, here’s some relatable content: you’re visiting a website and the button wall is just crammed with cool websites - in fact there are TOO many!!

check out the big bitsybox update i’ve been working on :D

an extra long blog roundup from Michael this week!

i added some new game boy camera photos to my photo album for the first time in a while i actually took these earlier this year, and just found them sitting on the cartridge... i think they were taken sometime this summer?

i think this post by Erin Kissane makes a rousing case for not retreating from the public social internet but instead building something better from the ruins (also i learned about two books i want to read - pity my poor, already overburdened nightstand)…

how are y’all doing on this gray november morning?

there's been a lot written recently about the renewed importance of the humble hyperlink in this post-search-engine era we seem to be entering in that spirit, i want to share some links to recent posts from some of my favorite link sharers: michael's blog…

i had fun paying attention to which elements of dragon quest have become archetypal features of JRPGs (a final boss with multiple forms) and which haven’t (invisible key items hidden on otherwise ordinary tiles) having replayed gen 1 pokemon earlier this…

…with this whole “role playing game” thing they should make one or ten (just spitballing) more of these

hey y'all, i'm posting to share a little tool i made recently: zoneRSS. zoneRSS is a Zonelets-compatible RSS feed and posting tool. if you're not familiar with it, Zonelets is a free blogging engine by Marina Kittaka - i use it to write this blog!

I’ve been really enjoying 3rd Voice’s approach to world building so it’s neat to get this look into some of Evan’s thinking about it - also I just love the idea of having a letter column for a webcomic

today i had coffee in this crumpet shop mug we got at pike place several years ago. that was a few hours ago (it was an early morning) so i can already feel the effects wearing off… (-_-) i'm always curious to get a peek at other people’s mug collections,…

totoro, aka “mister bitsy cat”, looking cozy this morning

i’m having gouda on a marbled rye bagel for breakfast - how’s *your* morning going?

ohoho i see michael is trying to start something >:)

it’s that time of year once again… …and speaking of fall, this little game poem by tallywinkle is a sweet bitsy ode to the season bitsy itself is 8 years old this month and i am still tinkering away at it: right now that means updating bitsybox to support…

Michael collects some good posts in this roundup!

reblogged from my phone in the dentist waiting room ;)

here’s another neat thing you can do with rss posting - share a link!

here’s a fun thing: an rss-only post (aka a “rost”)!

hey y'all, i recently learned that my rss was broken on some feed readers - oops :( it's should be working now, but in order to fix it i had to move it to a new url, so if you're following me in your rss reader, you'll want to resubscribe to the new feed…

post if i want to, post if i want to discerning blog readers will have noticed i haven't posted anything so far this year - oh no!