Chris Wolfe

'tis the season for personal retrospectives and planning. My 2018 was a year of plunging into the modern JavaScript and web development ecosystems, about which I have decidedly mixed feelings. 2019 will bring a shift from exploration and tinkering toward more writing and more game development.

Highlights

• Learned a ridiculous number of tools for web development, and pieced together infrastructure for building this website.
• Collected a backlog of article ideas, and wrote detailed outlines for a few of them.
• Single-level demo of Mosaic, a web-based puzzle game.
• Organized my long queue of game concepts. The simple ones come first, so that I can grow my experience and hopefully bootstrap funding of more complex games.

Coming Next

• More writing. I am going to split my time more explicitly between writing and coding. No more fighting with tooling when I am supposed to be writing articles.
• More game development. I am going to use the Mosaic demo as a case study for 2D game development using browser APIs and engines.