Mark Andrade

Phaser touch events firing twice

Testing the games out on iPhone I’m encountering that I touch the bottom of the screen a lot. Outside of the canvas. The game is centered vertically and the canvas does not

Cloudflare migration begins

Started the migration over to Cloudflare static pages. It was much easier than anticipated. Everything is starting to fall into place.

Simplifying - Take Three

I’m still doing more website and social media consolidation. It just didn’t feel right to me that this site was a half baked photo portfolio and andradearts.com was the blog.

Forty Years as a Certified Programmer?

Flash back Friday blog post edition. I found this certificate, dated February 18, 1983, in a box while I was going through all my memorabilia that I kept over the years. It’s

I've Retired from Game Development

On September 20th, 2002, about 24 hours before my daughter Sophia was born, I was laid off from my then current job. I was devastated, scared, and most of all angry. I didn’

Goodbye Twitter

Today I killed all my twitter accounts. I just can’t be on that platform any longer. Just can’t do it. You can find me on Mastodon and Threads. 🤘🏽

KaiOS Debugging On a Modern Mac

Today on reddit I saw this post about Waterfox Classic. I had no idea this app existed. I can now easily test and debug my games on the MacBook Air M2! I can

Do what you love. Love what you do.

In my previous post I had a lot of doubts and indecision haunting me. The life curve ball really has me questioning everything. This past month I made some changes and commitments to

Simplifying - Take Two

This is home base now. Almost everything I do online lives here. I thought I simplified before but it wasn’t enough. Recent posts from markandrade.com and Taara Games are here now.

Bring back the Indie web!

Bring back the wild west of the web. I miss that whole indie feel the web had before corporate take overs of our creations. RSS is not dead nor is it antiquated. We’