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ICYMI: Ende is a spiritual successor to Deno, stripped of distractions to simply be a secure runtime for TypeScript applications. Read the docs for more, official homepage is on the way. docs.ende.sh/runtime

RIP #deno - guess it's back to the drawing board for us... blog.cloudflare.com/deno-joins-c...

Finally finished our #JS13K postmortem. Come learn about #WebGPU! github.com/cutout-studi...

We learned during #JS13K that debugging game loops is an absolute pain: so we've proposed a change to the #WHATWG console to make it a little bit better. The `%t` token: github.com/whatwg/conso...

Very proud to announce you can now rate our game on the #JS13K website - js13kgames.com/2026/games/m... Play and rate some of the other entries while you're there. Everything is very impressive.

Less than 24 HOURS left to submit your game into #js13k 2026, if you haven't done that already - we're now at 160 entries, and ~75 drafts! js13kgames.com/submit #gamedevjs #gamedev #gamejam #indiedev #indiegames #codegolf #deadline #submit

The Penultimate Day: Getting close to submitting now! Take a look! js13kgames.com/games/missio...

Day 28... 29? Our draft is live on the #JS13K site!! Please have a look and give us your initial feedback!! js13kgames.com/games/wip-mi...

Days 26-27: coming down to the wire here - we'd avoided using LLMs, but there's no way we're gonna finish in time now. Mostly just to create throwaway editing tools so we don't have to manipulate raw values directly when every hour counts. #JS13K

DAYS 15-25 #JS13K ~1.5kB remaining. Essential before Sept 12th: fill in placeholder enemy behaviors and sound effects.

Still grinding... will have something to show soon... #JS13K

We're still here - slogging through the final game systems. Will likely have an update in a couple days.

Day 14: It finally almost... looks like a game 😭 7.5kB - but still a ton of work to do! #JS13K

Day 12 + 13: Thrilled to report we now have a RUDIMENTARY GAME LOOP! Enemies technically fire at you, you can fire back, and the game crashes when you die 🥀 #JS13K

Day 11: Just one more refactor before we get the game fully working... c'mon man... last one I swear... #JS13K

Day 9 + 10: BULLETS!!! #JS13K

Day 7 + 8: We wanted to make sure the UI we had planned didn't sneak up on us, so we scaffolded out the bones. It contains an image rendered via polygons (but we're not ready to show it off just yet). 5.4kB!

Day 6: drafted the enemy geometry. 4.1kB! #JS13K

Day 5 - our ship is moving!! Tough to get a truly smooth output from a digital input, but it's good enough to move forward with, we'll tune it later. #JS13k

Day 4 - we've started building. Shapes and colors - all in only 3kB!

Day 3! We were able to simulate a couple seconds of gameplay in paper form! Flying towards the green pack of enemies on the left to take one out, the red pack caught up with us. At the last moment we "spin counter"'d a bullet right back in their face! Time to start building this thing!

Day 2: Long day of brainstorming and prototyping. Distilled the ideas we had down to about ~1kB (unoptimized) RNG code for paper playtesting tomorrow! #JS13k

Day 1 complete! This year's theme is "UNICORNS and RAINBOWS" and we've landed on a concept: You play as a pilot mercenary in the sector of space known only as “THE PRISM”. Your client (a space unicorn) is fading and has hired you to collect the "true colors" necessary for their survival. #JS13k

We'll be participating in #JS13k this year! Starting repo: github.com/cutout-studi...

Excited to announce our first work. With @cutout/jsx you can performantly write JSX once and use it anywhere! jsr.io/@cutout/jsx

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