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July 8, 2024

Weird Potatoes and Undefined

Hey friends,

Hope y'all had a great (and safe!) Independence Day! ๐ŸŽ†๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ


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 eatingโ€”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 โ€” despite it LOOKING like an incredibly boring game.
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