Ethan Clark

I remember reading a detailed Twitter thread you wrote about it, actually! Circa 2019 ish IIRC.

Ethan Clark joins us at ThinkyCon 2025 to present the talk: "Making Multi Purpose Puzzles" Talk description: It's hard enough making a puzzle that does one thing. How do you design a puzzle that does multiple things? We'll talk about puzzles with multiple solutions, puzzles with multiple emotional Making Multi Purpose Puzzles - Ethan Clark (ThinkyCon 2025)

Developer of Bee Magic and N Step Steve, Ethan Clark, gave a multipurpose talk about making multipurpose puzzles!
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I was going to use that as the example at first but decided to switch to asbestos instead.

"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.

A plea for help. 🙏
One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor.

His story, contact and donor information can all be found on
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Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙

The demo for Parallel Dungeons is out! Even if you have roguelike fatigue (I know I do,) I promise this game brings something unique to the table. So please give it a try.
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That one meme about "not so easy to find..." edited to say "!!: 'Well, well, well, not so easy to find a type cast that doesn't crash the game, huh?'"

Thankfully the humble !!(value) expression saved the day. (Yes, I *am* making these memes to cope with the stress.)

That one image from Coraline of that dude on the computer, looking really worn out.

How it feels when you're doing last minute work on your demo and you discover that using bool(value) to cast to a bool basically crashes the game but ONLY on web builds and ONLY in Chromium.

Final note: expect my next month's blog post to be labeled as "November" instead of "October," i.e. I'm finally syncing them up to the month they actually release in instead of having them lag one month behind.

So, look forward to all that I guess.

You might have also seen that I'm giving a virtual talk on the 7th! I'll be discussing how to make multi purpose puzzles and what that even means.

Also a lot of other interesting talks in the lineup.

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A screenshot of Parallel Dungeons. It shows "Boxer" in the "Tutorial" fighting "Laughing Baby"

The TL;DR is that I'm going to release a free demo for Parallel Dungeons soon! It's going to contain a sizable portion of the full game that you can play for free!

I need the game's store page to be approved first and do some last minute polish, but other than that the demo's almost done.

Realizing that I never put out a monthly blog post, so let's just do a quick mini-thread on what I've been busy with.

I'm also feeling a bit of rogue like genre fatigue. It doesn't help that I'm currently making one. 😭

I playtested this game and can confirm: it is at least twice as good as Cosmic Express. Perhaps thrice as good, even.

I thought the lore was that the time loop works by transferring the protagonist's *memories* back in time, right? So by necessity, you begin each loop in the same physical state (Which could be nauseous if the protagonist was really unlucky that day.)

It turns out an underrated benefit of releasing your game with a level editor is that it lets you quickly make and share meme posts.

An N Step Steve level with pairs of flags on them. The flags have 6 and 7 on them. To play this level, go to https://epicpikaguy.itch.io/n-step-steve-part-2, enter the level editor, and load this level: āȇ́ࠌĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿĀÿదĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿĀĀದĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿĀĀÿĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿďÿÿÿÿĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿПÿϿÿЀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿҟÿѿÿҀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿĄÿÿÿÿĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿĀĀĀĀĀĶÿĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀĀÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ

In an effort to stay relevant with the kids, I have made a brand new N Step Steve level based on current trends. Level code in alt text if you want to play it.

How to make a game engine for WebAssembly: Part 5 (Table of contents)

Part 5 in my "How to make a game engine for WebAssembly" blog post is out. We *finally* get write gameplay code!
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They have a complicated animation of the old logo being destroyed, yet they don't give the same treatment to their new logo.

Really odd to put the emphasis on the "destruction" part of the rebranding.

Monthly Blog Post: August 2025 Parallel Dungeons has character art now

In which I showcase the new character art that @lumsel.bsky.social made for Parallel Dungeons:

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It's weird looking back at Google Translate. It was once near-universally accepted (or at least tolerated) without controversy but now fall under the controversial banner of "Generative AI." (Or maybe it's still not controversial? IDK.)

Doesn't Google Translate count as "generative AI", though? I wouldn't be surprised if this WAS Google Translate and the dev put in this disclosure because they considered Google Translate as "AI".

I’m 90% certain their argument will be “we used humans to revise the final product, so it’s eligible for copyright.” Which is ironic.

Just released Snekcross, a dense open-world puzzle about a very long snek crossing a very wide chasm

#puzzle #freegame #webgame

To iterate on the first point: I have “source data” and “build data” folders, and to make a build I can just copy everything from “build data” and ignore source.

My structure goes something like this (these questions are used to sort into different nesting folders:) “is this asset included in builds?” followed by “what kind of asset is it?” followed by “what category is this asset?”

The trick is to only ask it for lies. That way you’ll never be disappointed.

Monthly Blog Post: July 2025 Sea Magic’s Puzzlescript prototype and more.

New blog post! I show you the prototypes for Sea Magic.
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It's Always Sunny in the Incipisphere "The Gang plays SBURB"

Someone made a fanventure with that exact premise: mspfa.com?s=51433&p=1

I think my copy of the new Homestuck trailer is broken.