Hey friends,

Hope y'all had a great (and safe!) Independence Day! 🎆🇺🇸

Things I Made

It's been a long time in the making, but I've created my first game!

It's an endless runner where you are a potato. (I mean, why not?) You run, collect coins, jump over obstacles, and get a score. It's VERRRRY simple. There were a few concepts I wanted to tackle:

• Handling basic collisions between entities.
• Better understanding of simple physics engines.
• An excuse to practice pixel art and animation.
• Orchestrating basic scenes.

The name came from my youngest who has been recently obsessed with potatoes. Not really potatoes for eating—more the IDEA of potatoes in general. So 'papa rara' roughly translates as 'weird potato' in Spanish.

Check it out here:

Run Papa Rara Run

Interesting Web Bits

• Oh undefined, how many ways can we say thy name? (Ye verily, at least 10 in JS...)
• Turns out Math.random() works SEEMINGLY as well as crypto.getRandomValues()? Well, at least for what I'd use it for...
• I've recently become obsessed with the game Innovation. It's a wild, strategic card game with big swings and lots of silliness — despite it LOOKING like an incredibly boring game.