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algo-chip by ABA Games Automatic chiptune BGM composition engine

I've just released the playable showcase for algo-chip, a high-quality automatic chiptune BGM composition engine available as an npm library. The demo lets you audition motifs, and regenerate loops. abagames.itch.io/algo-chip

Making AI a Better Coder by Teaching It to Doubt Itself Introducing /criticalthink: A Command to Sanity-Check Your AI's Suggestions We've all been...

Tired of your AI coding assistant giving you confidently wrong answers? I built a simple slash command, /criticalthink, to make it doubt itself and check for risks, biases, and logical flaws. Stop blindly trusting and start thinking critically. dev.to/abagames/mak...

GitHub - abagames/slash-criticalthink: The `criticalthink` command is a custom command that embeds healthy skepticism into the dialogue process itself as a countermeasure against AI's "confirmation bi... The `criticalthink` command is a custom command that embeds healthy skepticism into the dialogue process itself as a countermeasure against AI's "confirmation bias" and humans' &q...

I've created a custom slash command "criticalthink" to encourage critical thinking, as a play on "ultrathink". I find it quite useful, but this function itself requires critical thinking. github.com/abagames/sla...

AI Creates and Plays a Game, Completing the "Game You Don't Have to Play" "Is there a game you don't have to play?" This is a famous line from the Japanese manga...

Ever dreamed of a game that plays itself? I explored this idea by building a system where an AI creates, plays, and completes an entire RPG campaign on its own. Humans can then watch the story unfold. dev.to/abagames/ai-...

1x111 by ABA Games 1-button 111 minigames

Another web game you shouldn't miss: 1x111 by @abagames.bsky.social

A collection of inventive and delightful tiny games. Think UFO-50 mixed with Wario Ware. Full of surprises, and actually pretty addictive. #gaming #videogame

abagames.itch.io/1x111

1X111 by @abagames.bsky.social
one of the classic japanese game hobbiests, Kenta Cho recently tied together 111 of his single-button games into an old-school wario-ware you can play on your phone (he's been making tiny free games since the 80s)

abagames.itch.io/1x111

SWITCHBOARD by ABA Games Old-school operator: Connect fast or your contract is cut.

You are a switchboard operator. Quickly connect people to who they want to talk to. If you're too slow or make a wrong connection, you'll lose a contract. But don't worry, you can get it back by making another successful connection! abagames.itch.io/switchboard

Labyracer by ABA Games Speed Maze Survival

Ever wondered what a 'Rally-X Championship Edition' might play like? The goal is to grab all the flags on the left side of the screen. A special flag will then pop up on the right. Snag that special flag, and a whole new course will appear on the left. abagames.itch.io/labyracer

Recorded in SNAKESURROUND™ ABA, prodigious creator of plenty of awesome short games like the one-dimensional Pac-Man variant PAKU PAKU, has just released a new game, free to play in your browser on itch.io: BLASNAKE. Start...

I've got a new snake game. Feel free to try it out if you're interested. www.metafilter.com/209055/Recor...

About Me - ABA Games Learn more about Kenta Cho, the creator of ABA Games.

It occurred to me that not having an 'About Me' page on my website might seem a bit unhelpful, so I went ahead and added it. www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/ab...

I contributed an article to "Jisaku Game Magazine 2025", magazine featuring introductions to Japanese indie/homebrew games. I wrote a column titled "Creating Homebrew Games to Enjoy Programming," discussing my activities over the last 40 years yareyare760-game.wixsite.com/home/magazin2

Getting LLMs to Create, Play, Evaluate, and Improve Games The fish powers up with bubbles and can crush rocks. I managed to make Claude handle everything from...

We need to let generative AI play the games they create and experience that "What is this? This is boring!" feeling too dev.to/abagames/get...

The fish powers up with bubbles and can crush rocks. I managed to make Claude handle everything from game concept creation and evaluation to implementation and improvement, creating all this without writing a single line of code, just through conversation abagames.github.io/chat-craft-c...

YouTube video by The Foreseen Arcade Pac-Line x 8 (v0.91 Build) - Atari 2600 Homebrew

1D Pac-Man x 8 players for Atari 2600 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKZe...

You can now embed Bluesky on DEV/Forem Just a heads up on a new feature: Embedding skeets! This feature is only a basic initial...

I just noticed that dev.to now supports Bluesky post embeds dev.to/devteam/you-...

Creating Mini-Games in the Age of Generative AI - Generating Ideas, Code, Graphics, and Sound In this context, what remains for humans to do... fine-tuning, perhaps? Dodge the incoming red...

The idea that generative AI could create games completely autonomously remains a distant dream, but we're beginning to see early signs of this potential. dev.to/abagames/cre...

Dodge the incoming red electrons and boost your score by navigating through the yellow paths between them! 🎮⚡️ abagames.github.io/crisp-game-l...

Tap to jump, tap again to stomp! Crush the cactus to increase your score! Speed increases too! abagames.github.io/crisp-game-l...

Inside the box, a box's jump direction sways back and forth. Tap with good timing to make the box jump, while collecting yellow blocks and avoiding red ones. abagames.github.io/crisp-game-l...

When small integers are passed to Python's hash(), they typically return the same integer value. However, hash(-1) exhibits unusual behavior by returning -2. This is because CPython uses -1 as an error value, making it impossible to return -1 as an actual hash result. omairmajid.com/posts/2021-0...

"Cuttle," a playing card game developed in the 1970s, already featured elements similar to Magic: The Gathering, including card-based attacks, interference, defense, permanent effects, and the existence of "2" cards that could neutralize effects. www.pagat.com/combat/cuttl...

2024 in review A post on Hempuliʼs blog

Wrote an end-of-the-year post on my blog: www.hempuli.com/blog/index.p...

Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …

Summary of LLM developments in 2024: Key advances include the emergence of models surpassing GPT-4 and cost reductions. Challenges also emerged, such as low-quality AI-generated content, widening knowledge gaps, and environmental impact from data centers. simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/...

A New Relationship Between AI and Humans - Human Potential as a Source of Unpredictability Humanity is approaching a historic turning point with the emergence of AI systems that surpass human...

Human unpredictability based on experiential memory and intuition is fundamentally different from AI's, suggesting a new collaborative relationship between humans and AI. dev.to/abagames/a-n...

Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet—our most intelligent model yet. Sonnet now outperforms competitor models and Claude 3 Opus on key evaluations, at twice the speed.

"We’ll be releasing Claude 3.5 Haiku and Claude 3.5 Opus later this year"—if we don’t hurry, it might be too late to call it this year www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

I've Made 111 One-Button Mini-Games into a Collection (Out of 200 Created) abagames.itch.io This is a WarioWare-style game where you play quick one-button...

After creating 200 one-button games, constraints have evolved into natural design patterns, and while game creation has become routine, I still find joy in fine-tuning mechanics for optimal player experience. dev.to/abagames/ive...

GitHub - marceloprates/prettymaps: A small set of Python functions to draw pretty maps from OpenStreetMap data. Based on osmnx, matplotlib and shapely libraries. A small set of Python functions to draw pretty maps from OpenStreetMap data. Based on osmnx, matplotlib and shapely libraries. - marceloprates/prettymaps

A Python library prettymaps for creating stylish maps using OpenStreetMap. github.com/marceloprate...

OpenAI o3 Breakthrough High Score on ARC-AGI-Pub OpenAI o3 scores 75.7% on ARC-AGI public leaderboard.

OpenAI o3, which has improved adaptability to new tasks, costs $20 per task in the Low Compute setting. If the High Compute setting is 172 times more expensive, it could cost as much as $3,000 per task. arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-...

Featured Blog | A small games manifesto 'Most great franchises were born from small games and incremental investment. This is far from easy in a crowded market, but it’s the path to sustainable success.'

While the article advocates for developing smaller games with risky new ideas, the key challenge appears to be the lack of a proven formula for creating market-viable new ideas. www.gamedeveloper.com/production/a...

I thought it would be good to have Claude itself write about how to write prompts for Claude, so I had Claude create a guide. abagames.github.io/claude-persp...