I planted American persimmon seedlings almost 8 years ago and today I harvested my first batch of them.

TIL about https://fontpixel.com thanks to the attribution information on the latest #lispgamejam entry by @Alexjgriffith

okay that went pretty well! maybe I'll do it again tomorrow.

okay going live. I don't know what I'm doing let's see how this goes.

https://twitch.tv/davexunit

Gonna go live in one hour. 11am US Eastern time.

https://twitch.tv/davexunit

I think I might do a "let's play #lispgamejam entries" stream later today.

there is not much appetite for funding digital infrastructure right now and it's frustrating.

the #lispGameJam is coming down to the wire! getting in last minute bug fixes and so far resisting the temptation to make any non-bugfix changes

One more jam down, with an hour to spare. Trying to fix some last minute bug fixes in, as always.

https://alexjgriffith.itch.io/togather

#lispgamejam #gamedev

apothesis upload, the game @technomancy and I did for the #lispgamejam, is up https://technomancy.itch.io/apotheosis-upload

it’s a cyberspace hack/n/slash in the vein of Hades/2

it was a lot of fun to work on and I think we’re gonna keep working on it to get it closer to the original vision

Also thank you to Ursula Kurdali for the Stop Motion add-on for Blender, which I used to make all the animations https://github.com/bkurdali/Stop-Motion-Blender-Addon/

This game was largely coded by @dthompson and is, I think, a lovely little feat to be pulled off in a week. It also has music by @encryptedwhispers / @vv, the word list is curated by @mlemweb, and it has a bunch of custom animations by me!

And the end-to-end encryption is thanks to @tsyesika's recent support for end-to-end encryption in OCapN / Goblins!

Whew! What a week! @spritely got in its #lispgamejam entry: a p2p party game called PolyDraw! Draw the word you're given but... you can only draw with twenty triangles in one minute! https://davexunit.itch.io/polydraw

The game is REALLY fun, I've played it with several groups now and:

- It's built using #spritely tech! Goblins, Hoot, OCapN!
- It's fully end-to-end encrypted! The only people who know what's being drawn are the players!
- It's REALLY FUN!

Blog post coming soonish but: try it with friends! Let us know what you think!

With only ~1 week to make this game there are certain things that were left undone like more graceful handling of disconnects that allow players to rejoin the game, etc. but making anything multiplayer is a challenge and I'm proud of what we were able to accomplish in a short period of time.

The last game we made for the lisp game jam was also multiplayer but it was a traditional client-server model due to infrastructure limitations. But now, thanks to @tsyesika and NLnet, we can make p2p games using our new end-to-end encrypted relay! The web server is simply the means to deliver the static game binary and assets to your computer and does nothing else. All game state is stored in the browser and anyone can host a game.

The game I worked on for the #lispgamejam is called Polydraw. It's a peer-to-peer multiplayer party game reminiscent of something you'd find in a Jackbox party pack.

Players take turns drawing based on a prompt and the other players try to guess what it is. The catch is that the artist only has 60 seconds and can only draw a series of triangles.

Thanks to @cwebber for the concept and animations, @vv for the tunes, and @mlemweb for the prompts.

https://davexunit.itch.io/polydraw

A little bit of post-jam analysis https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2026/topic/7357433/language-stats

Congratulations to everyone that submitted to the #lispgamejam! We received 23 entries this time. Check 'em out!

https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2026/entries

It's the final hours of the #lispgamejam and the submissions are starting to roll in!

the antagonist for our #lispGameJam entry is an LLM and I'm having trouble writing its lines

realizing it's partly because I have somehow been able to avoid exposure to that writing recently, somehow? I'll take the W