Blog

Notes on building and maintaining Catch the Fly.

• Why a 20-second browser game is worth making in 2026

  2026

  On purpose-built micro-games, why "simple" isn't the same as "low-effort," and what I was actually trying to solve when I started this project.

• Building a 9-language reflex game with no backend

  2026

  How the translation system works, why the sound effects are synthesized instead of loaded from files, and a few mistakes I made along the way.