Good Thoughts

Spent a few hours mucking about with one of my favourite games, Sonic R, with Claude Code as a co-pilot. Genuinely amazing how far you can get reverse-engineering this thing: swapping textures, tweaking the course layout, messing with character behaviour, even hacking together a fast-load straight into a stage so I could test changes without sitting through the menus every time.

Changing the lighting was the bit that surprised me most. Felt like proper dark magic.

Makes me wonder what becomes...

Really cool expose from the Japanese Casa BRUTUS magazine celebrating 40 years of Mario. Its got behind the scenes archival dev material and information on how the original game was made and even an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto. I don't think there is an English translation yet, but tried my best.

My fav thing - fun as a system:
> "Continuing to think about the mechanisms by which people think, ‘This is interesting.’"
Fun is not inspiration or taste, but a mechanism that can be studied is a...