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In a Minecraft world in which I used to play, there is a village called Jeanneville. Looking over that village and the nearby plains is a castle, the castle of Jeanneville. It is a medieval castle in the style of 13th century French castles. Having been built entirely in survival mode, the castle is my Minecraft base in that world, containing all the things needed to function as such. That does not, however, compromise realism, which is the primary goal of the project....

A new version of Minicraft for GBA, my demake of Minicraft for the Game Boy Advance, has been released. In this post I will go into details regarding the changes made. Respawning In previous versions, when the player died, there was no choice but to go back to the start menu: this meant losing all unsaved progress. This is how it worked on the original version of Minicraft, but my demake is meant to bring improvements to make playing Minicraft a better experience....

When a videogame is sold with a physical box, that box is decorated by an image that represents the game. Such image can also be used when publishing games online. Specifically for Game Boy Advance games, the box’s front side is square and has, to the left, a label indicating what console the game is for. For example, this is the box cover of ‘Minicraft for GBA’. I decided to redraw that left-side label in SVG format, making it much easier to modify than if it were in a bitmap format....