Varun Ramesh's Blog

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ChatGPT is Good at Roleplaying Characters

May 6th

ChatGPT is really good at roleplaying as strange and unusual characters with minimal prompting.

Proctor Postmortem

July 1st

This is a postmortem for Proctor, the first of three horror games that I recently released.

How I Structure GameObjects - Components and Mixin-based Inheritance

November 2nd

My recent game projects have used a GameObject architecture that unifies Component-based GameObjects and Mixin-based inheritance.

Composable, Programmatic Animations for Games

September 4th

This post describes a method for creating animations in games programmatically, while still retaining composability.

Runaway Robot - A Mobile Runner Game

March 29th

I made a mobile runner game for the CS194 class at Stanford.

Blue Screen - Ludum Dare 30 Entry

August 29th

Last weekend, I participated in Ludum Dare, a game jam where you make a game from scratch in under 48 hours.

The Damned

July 20th

A couple weeks ago, I took part in a game jam on itch.io called the AGDG Microgame Jam.

A Perk of Using WebGL

November 28th

WebGL games can use HTML/CSS for GUIs. It's a lot easier to use than most game engine UI frameworks.