AleWrites
Articles about books and game development
Cat-ching Sun Demo On Itch
July 31, 2026
I just completed a rebuild of Cat-ching Sun, the demo, using Godot. It was really rewarding to slow down and use AI to teach me more of the why behind Godot. I used Claude to give me milestones, stipulating that it not give me the answers. We talked thr…
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Playing Patton Strikes Back
July 29, 2026
I took some time yesterday to play an old DOS game: Patton Strikes Back. What an interesting rewind! For those that aren't familiar, it's an old strategy game about the Battle of Bulge. It's real-time with a pause button that lets you issue order. It also pauses the game naturally when you clikc on…
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New Data Engineering Project
July 23, 2026
I'm thinking of using the steam api to build a data engineering project for my portfolio. It would require me to use dbt, airflow, and PostgreSQL to find insights into what people are buying, how they're reviewing and what they're wishlisting. I thought it might combine my love of game development w…
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