Tilman

16 Bachelor of Design students at TH Nürnberg built a platformer in the faculty's project week. Only three had ever used a game engine before. Three days later, ten games were finished — solo or in small teams, all playable in any browser.

The most interesting part isn't the speed. It's what made it possible. Godot has become a solid open-source engine that students learn in hours rather than days. And the web has quietly grown into a remarkably universal free and open platform for interactive media — built on open standards, no media platforms or app stores in sights. WebAssembly lets compiled engines like Godot run in the browser at near-native speed. A finished game ships as a folder of HTML, WASM, and assets. You just send a URL. A good time to be designing digital things.

→ Full write-up, photos, all ten games: tilman.me/garden/Platformer+Game+Jam+2026^*

www.inkandswitch.com^* celebrate their 10 year anniversary with a great piece of interactive creative coding on their website. Make sure you activate the ampersand shaped circuit in the upper left …

tools.rmv.fyi^*

A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools.

No logins, no registration, no data collection. I can't believe I have to say that. Long live the handmade web.

Onionboots made a very entertaining wrap up about the independent web today: A Web Revival: the Internet didn't die, you're just not on it. This video is about making websites instead of scrolling reels. Also don't miss the follow-up video.

youtu.be/tkUgOT22F5s?si=bRzAv1HOxSwn9gWD^*

Sorry, I need to post a link so I can see if my Bsky feed on my homepage is working: Tembo is a playful drum machine that thinks it’s a checkerboard. www.theverge.com/gadgets/892973/tembo-playful-wooden-drum-machine^*