small games

 http://farawaytimes.blogspot.com/2023/02/how-to-make-good-small-games.html
I used to be more into making small games - especially at https://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/ and their 2-hour-game-jams. Small games often hearken back to the early days of video games where games tended to lean on novel physics and other mechanics, often on a single screen, instead of world-building and lore.Processing (Java) and then P5 were my platforms of choice. You had to do everything from scratch, but you had absolute flexibility. And skills I learned in small game making have come in useful in small projects for work and the interactive greeting cards I still enjoy making.https://games.alienbill.com/advent/ is probably the high point of my small-game hobby, where I gathered 25 of the most interesting things I had made into an advent calendar.