I rebuilt La Cuatrola for YouTube Playables: one legality function for humans and bots, art and sound generated by code, six languages, and a Daily Hand the engine solves exactly. Here's what the table taught me that no rulebook could.
Godot has no way to render a 360° video you can look around in. I built one: six synchronized cameras, an equirectangular shader, FFmpeg and spherical metadata, driven from a bottom panel. Here's what broke at the cube seams and how I fixed it.
Euphoria's physics-based character reactions have been locked behind proprietary tech for 18 years. I spent six days building Kickback, an open-source Godot plugin that brings the same principles to indie developers.
I joined Hometopia as a UI developer. Within a year, the team went from 15 to 5 people, and I became the lead programmer. Here's what that taught me about persistence, pragmatism, and shipping games.