u/Slackluster

The Gateless Gate is a collection of 49 koans, short cryptic stories about Zen Buddhism from 13th century China. It's one of the strangest books ever written and one of my favorites. I decided to give it a major modern upgrade.

https://killedbyapixel.github.io/GatelessGate/

The concept was to create a custom 3D scene for each koan that demonstrates it in a visual way. I went with a super minimal ancient scroll look, but each page has a red accent object that responds in some way when you touch it.

There's a debug panel you can open by pressing HOME, which lets you play with the settings (press HOME again to close it). The rendering uses depth edge lines for the outline effect, and there are a lot of other pieces in there (paper shader, grass, water, ocean).

This is also an experiment in generative art. Nothing is downloaded: every model, scene and sound is built by code when the page loads, so the whole thing is about 1.5 MB. There are 45 models in the kit and most of them are created procedurally. The 5 animals share a quadruped rig, trees grow from a recursive branching function, grass is a noise field, and so on. The soundscape is generated the same way, with no samples anywhere: wind, bells, chimes, rain and ocean, all created in real time.

This was a really fun project to work on and different from stuff I have made before. It was a ton of work but it feels good to see my vision realized, and I hope people enjoy it.

Code: https://github.com/KilledByAPixel/GatelessGate

https://www.dwitter.net/d/36106

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https://www.dwitter.net/d/35970 - tiny raycasting engine with text rendering

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Game Title: PIROOT

Playable Link: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/1044345

Platform: Web

Description: Piroot is an open world metroidvania where you crash land on a mysterious planet and start with only the ability to roll. From there you unlock new abilities and weapons that open up more of the interconnected world. There is a voice called Root that guides you along the way, though you might want to think about whether you can trust it.

I have been working on this game solo for over 10 years. Every bit of it, the art, music, code, and even the engine itself, was made by me. The engine is open source. It has dynamic lights and shadows on pixel art, physics based movement, and enemies that navigate with real pathfinding instead of following scripts.

I just finished porting the engine to the web, so the whole demo now runs in a browser with no download and no account. It takes about 10 to 20 minutes to play through.

I would love feedback on a few things. The rolling is physics based and it is the first thing you touch, so does it feel good or does it feel like you are fighting the controls? If you stopped playing, where did you stop? That is the most useful thing you can tell me. And how did it run for you, including browser, OS, and rough specs, since this port is brand new and I want to know what breaks.

https://www.dwitter.net/d/35946

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https://www.dwitter.net/d/35908

check out the actual 1k demo: https://js1024.fun/demos/2026/25/bar

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I'm working on a small remake of the original Zelda for nes as a side project and to put my game engine through it's paces. Because I also created the LittleJS game engine and just added a 3D rendering component and am building out the AI capabilities.

My goal is to create something like the link's awakening remake. The engine is also fully free and open source if you'd like to try making your own game.

would you play a free fan game like this?

Play Skydreams: https://killedbyapixel.github.io/TinyCode/1K/Skydreams
Official 1024 byte entry: https://js1024.fun/demos/2026/25/bar
My size code demos: https://github.com/KilledByAPixel/TinyCode

An endless race in the sky inspired by 90's 3D games like sky roads, marble madness, and sonic 3d. My goal was to create a dreamlike experience with full resolution full speed graphics that would be easy to pick up and play.

Features
- 3D level rendering system
- 3D player sphere with shadow
- colorful sky gradient with stars
- procedurally generated levels
- level increases in difficulty over time
- mouse controls
- enhanced version has keyboard and touch input

the code...

<head><title>🌈☁️ Skydreams</title></head>
<body id=b style=margin:0>
<canvas id=a>
<script>
    // JS1024 shim
    a.width = innerWidth;
    a.height = innerHeight;
    c = a.getContext`2d`;
</script>
<script>
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Howdy, I made a sky atlas app that is open source and also now on google play and runs free in any web browser. It has over 100,000 stars and other named objects, nearly everything visible with an amateur telescope. It also has ISS, eclipses, and other events. All totally free without any annoying ads or popups.

This is just the first major release and I intend to keep improving it. I also just produced a short trailer to demo the features. It would really help to get feedback from experts. What would you like to see added or changed?

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cosmodial.app

Web App: https://cosmodial.3d2k.com

GitHub: https://github.com/KilledByAPixel/Cosmodial

https://www.dwitter.net/d/35814

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