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New Hacking the Grepson podcast episode is out!

Hacking the Grepson 108: Advent of Code 2025, Day 1-6

Matt (@messerman) and Mike (@nebyoolae) take a break for a while from game making to discuss the Advent of Code, now in its 11th year!

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Hacking the Grepson 108: Advent of Code 2025 - Day 1-6

It's December, which means it's Advent of Code time! Taking a break from our "Let's Make a Game!" project to instead help elves figure out programming problems is what this episode is all about. Matt and Mike go over the first 6 days of logic conundrums.

Nebyoolae Nov 26

New Hacking the Grepson podcast episode is out!

Hacking the Grepson 107: Gamely Checking

Matt (@messerman) and Mike (@nebyoolae) discuss the latest and greatest in their pursuit to make a game.

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Hacking the Grepson 107: Gamely Checking

More words and thoughts and ideas and progress on our combined efforts at figured out both Defold and Love2D to make a game. Matt talks about playing around with his slingshot prototype and Mike talks about rejiggering his entire Astronaut tutorial so he can load a different level.

Nebyoolae Nov 12

New Hacking the Grepson podcast episode is out!

Hacking the Grepson 106: Gamey Checky

Mike (@nebyoolae) (Matt (@messerman) is out this episode) discusses the latest progress thus far on making a game.

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Hacking the Grepson 106: Gamey Checky

Mike shares some updates on the game-making progress achieved recently (still no finished game to share with each other yet, but working on it!).

Nebyoolae Oct 29

New Hacking the Grepson podcast episode is out!

Hacking the Grepson 105: Game Checkin

Matt (@messerman) and Mike (@nebyoolae) continue discussing progress for "Let's Make a Game!". Mike talks about adding gem pickups and audio to his game, and Matt tries to figure out why a sprite won't work properly.

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Hacking the Grepson 105: Game Checkin: Sprites and Animation

Matt and Mike continue their Let's Make a Game experiment, spending time going over the progress made so far in their Love2D and Defold prototypes. Matt also shows how Claude works on the command line and Mike is entranced.

securityaffairs Oct 17

Auction house #Sotheby’s disclosed a July data breach
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Auction house Sotheby’s disclosed a July data breach

Sotheby’s reported a July 24 breach exposing customer and financial data; it took 2 months to assess the stolen data and affected individuals

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Nebyoolae Oct 15

New Hacking the Grepson podcast episode is out!

Hacking the Grepson 104: Let's Make a Game, Check-In

Matt (@messerman) and Mike (@nebyoolae) continue our brainstorming session on making a game.

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Hacking the Grepson 104: Game-Making Check-In

Matt and Mike check in again on their progress of making a game. More discussion ensues about preferences, recent games played, and about Defold and Love2D, including some recent efforts made by both.

Nebyoolae Oct 1

New Hacking the Grepson podcast episode is out!

Hacking the Grepson 103: What Game Engine Should We Use?

Matt (@messerman) and Mike (@nebyoolae) discuss which game engine or framework to use to develop their upcoming game.

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Hacking the Grepson 103: What Game Engine Should We Use?

Matt and Mike continue to discuss more details about the game they're going to make. On this episode the decision of which engine/language/IDE they're going to primarily use is made...sort of.

Nebyoolae Sep 27, 2025

In an effort to make a game with @messerman for #HackingTheGrepson, I'm learning the game engine known as Defold. DEE-fold? DEF-old? Duh-FOLD? Whatever.

Starting with their Platformer tutorial, and trying to see what I can modify, improve, tinker.

You learn as much by breaking a working example as you do making it better. Let's change this number and see what it does! To think that something like Super Mario Brothers was an arcane mystery and now a downloadable tutorial...

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Nebyoolae Sep 17, 2025

New Hacking the Grepson podcast episode is out!

Hacking the Grepson 102: What Kind of Game Should We Make?

Matt (@messerman) and Mike (@nebyoolae) further discuss our new season project: making a game! Mechanics, preferences, and some ideas to potentially pursue.

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Hacking the Grepson 102: What Kind of Game Should We Make?

Our new season, focused solely on making a video game of some sort, continues apace. This is a lengthy one, filled with discussions of game mechanics, likes/dislikes, and potential ideas to follow up on. Matt and Mike don't know what they're going to make yet, but they're getting further into what about games they enjoy (or don't).

Nebyoolae Sep 3, 2025

New Hacking the Grepson podcast episode is out!

Hacking the Grepson 101: Let's Make a Game!

Matt (@messerman) and Mike (@nebyoolae) discuss the beginnings of our newest venture: making a game together.

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Hacking the Grepson 101: Let's Make a Game!

For Season 2 of Hacking the Grepson, we're going to make a game! What kind of game? Which platform(s)? What genre/theme/setting? Who knows?! Let's try to start attempting to figure it out.