BEGINNER GUIDE · SOURCE LINKS INCLUDED
Save and Load Game Progress Without Losing Data
Build a versioned save, validate it before loading and handle unavailable storage without breaking play.
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Reimagine a Game: six illustrated game-building guides
Five new practical guides, five playable recipes and five reverse-engineering workshops, with complete original source. Explore reverse engineering.
Search practical game recipes, first-build tutorials and free-versus-paid comparisons. Original mechanics, copy-ready AI prompts and links to the existing build journeys.
21 results · 5 complete game recipes
BEGINNER GUIDE · SOURCE LINKS INCLUDED
Build an Inventory System: Stacks, Capacity and Safe Transfers
Make inventory transfers atomic so full bags, duplicate clicks and invalid quantities cannot create or destroy items.
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Add Mobile Controls That Stop When Your Finger Lifts
Use pointer ownership, cancellation and keyboard parity to prevent stuck movement in browser games.
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Make Readable Enemy AI With a Small State Machine
Build idle, chase, attack, recovery and dead states before adding navigation or complex behaviour trees.
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Profile Game Stutter Before Asking AI to Rewrite It
Measure frame-time tails, separate rendering from simulation and make one evidence-based performance change.
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GAME RECIPE · PROMPT + BUILD STAGES
Make a Platformer With Coyote Time and Jump Buffering
Build Beacon Hop: three platforms, readable landings, a forgiving jump and one reachable finish.
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GAME RECIPE · PROMPT + BUILD STAGES
Make a Tower Defense Game With Targeting, Gold and Waves
Build Lane Watch: three tower slots, eight enemies, limited gold and a defended exit.
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GAME RECIPE · PROMPT + BUILD STAGES
Make a Sokoban-Style Box Puzzle With Undo
Build Crate Key: grid movement, validated pushes, a solved state and a complete undo record.
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Make a Deckbuilding Battle: Energy, Block and Discard Piles
Build Paper Duel: a visible enemy intent, two card types and a small turn-based combat loop.
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Make a Top-Down Shooter With Safe Projectile Hits
Build Signal Sweep: normalised movement, rate-limited shots, enemy collisions and a finite wave.
Open recipe →REVERSE ENGINEERING · OWNED PRACTICE CODE
Read a Game Loop: Find Input, Updates and Rendering
Trace the original workshop from a button press to state mutation and a rendered frame.
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Understand a Save Format With Hex Bytes and Controlled Changes
Decode an original four-byte record, identify endianness and validate a proposed schema.
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Measure a Platformer Jump: Height, Airtime and Gravity
Use a deterministic movement trace to distinguish observations from a physics hypothesis.
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REVERSE ENGINEERING · OWNED PRACTICE CODE
Inspect Your Game’s Network Messages Without Trusting the Client
Study a small owned input protocol, sequence numbers and server-owned movement.
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REVERSE ENGINEERING · OWNED PRACTICE CODE
Ghidra for Beginners: Inspect Your Own Scoring Program
Compile an original C exercise, compare boundary outputs and follow a manual Ghidra analysis plan.
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REIMAGINE A GAME · ORIGINAL CREATOR + BUILD
Sonic Unleashed Recompiled Explained: Build Your Own Speed Platformer
Meet the creators of the Sonic Unleashed PC port, understand static recompilation, then build an original speed platformer with free code, assets and AI.
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REIMAGINE A GAME · ORIGINAL CREATOR + BUILD
Mario Kart 64 PC Port: SpaghettiKart Explained, Then Build Your Own Racer
Discover Harbour Masters’ SpaghettiKart PC port, its maintainers and native rendering, then build an original drift-and-boost kart time trial with free source, assets and AI.
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REIMAGINE A GAME · ORIGINAL CREATOR + BUILD
Ocarina of Time PC Port: Ship of Harkinian Explained, Then Build an Adventure
Explore Harbour Masters’ Ship of Harkinian and its decompilation-based port, then create Lanternwake: an original exploration adventure with free code, assets and a complete AI brief.
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REIMAGINE A GAME · ORIGINAL CREATOR + BUILD
Super Mario 64 PC Port: Ghostship Explained, Then Build Your Own Platformer
Meet Lywx and Harbour Masters’ Ghostship, check its real source and release, then build Clockwork Heights: an original collectible platformer with free code and an ambitious 3D development prompt.
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Game Reverse Engineering for Beginners: Code, Tools and a Practice Lab
Run Capstone’s unchanged example, inspect libsm64’s real-game simulation code and follow genuine source screenshots. Includes optional scoring practice and Ghidra guidance.
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How to Combine Two Games With AI — Make Your Own Game Mashup
Explore Mario in Elden Ring, Skyrim + Minecraft and creator-reported AI crossover mods. Follow credited creator code and real source screenshots, then try the optional original practice lab.
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