📰 Dev.to · Sam Novak

Every issue tracker I have used has some version of Backlog, In Progress, Done. Not one of them ships...

There is a failure I have now watched three separate teams hit, and it always looks like a bug in the...

Most issue trackers have a column called "Done." It is doing far too much work. "Done" is quietly...

The most expensive sentence in a small company is some version of this: "She would be perfect for...

I spent a long time writing deliberately vague task descriptions, and I could defend it. A complete...

There are two kinds of MCP server, they solve different problems, and almost nothing tells you which...

If you are evaluating engines for a web game, the default recommendation you will get is Unity, and...

AI coding agent usage limits: what actually resets, and when Most confusion about AI usage limits is...

You are forty minutes into a refactor. The agent has read the codebase, you have corrected it twice,...

Say "simulation" to most players and they picture one of two things: the rigid cockpit of Microsoft...

The event failed. Now every minute writes more damage. Rollback is not a button you press in panic....

We spend a lot of time arguing about engines, ECS, shaders, netcode. But the thing players actually...

Most game ideas sound good in your head. Before building for months, prove the one thing that...

If you've ever worked on a live game, you've probably watched this happen: an update ships, something...

There’s a story Jesse Schell tells in The Art of Game Design that every developer and designer should...

Game Balance Explained: How to Know if a Game Is Balanced What does game balance actually...

Game economy design almost always starts the same way: You open a spreadsheet. You define a few...