Writing — Brandon Wu

The notebook

I write about game development, using AI and agentic tools in production, and what it's like shipping products to millions of players as a solo developer — going right back to the early Unity and indie days.

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2026

May 18 The Morning Briefing → Apr 7 Running Claude Code Without Guardrails — While Keeping It Safe → Feb 26 Some of My Best Decisions Are Impulsive Ones → Jan 23 Headless Game Development with Claude Code and Godot →

2025

Aug 22 Passion, People, and Perspective at Devcom / Gamescom 2025 → Apr 23 I Miss Making Things → Apr 10 MCPs Aren't for Everything → Mar 3 I Need to Sleep Earlier, So I Am Starting a Club →

2018

Mar 2 Augmented Reality - 3D Navigation →

2016

Aug 31 Our Newest Project: Markd — A Pinterest for People → May 25 Ever Wanted to Make Your Own Video Game? →

2015

Feb 10 Speaking at Reboot Develop → Jan 15 Meet Us at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona! →

2014

Nov 11 Pocket Fireball - Note on Design → Oct 10 Work Around - Add Links to Signatures in the Mailbox (Beta) App on the Mac → Oct 3 Unity Custom Search in the Address Bar (Omnibox) → Aug 30 Indie Dev Q&A: 4Gency, Seattle → Aug 29 Worth Backing - Kenney Land by Kenney Vleugels → Aug 15 Indie Dev Q&A: Robby Zinchak from Archive Entertainment → Aug 4 Indie Dev Q&A: Luke Burtis from tinyBuild, HouseOgames → Jul 23 Playtesting - One Player, Two Avatars? → Jul 10 Student Highlight - Eric Sexton (Game Designer, Blizzard, Gearbox, King Maker Games) → Jun 24 Indie Dev Q&A: Joshua and Jessica McGrath from Doppler Interactive → Jun 18 Photos from Brandon's Unity Workshop at Microsoft Chicago → Jun 17 A Massive Thank You to Hutong Games → Jun 15 Indie Dev Q&A: Ty Taylor of The Bridge and Tumblestone → Jun 12 Practice Your #gamedev Skills and Join an Online Game Jam on itch.io → Jun 5 A List of 12 Free GUI Resources → Jun 1 Toolkit for Indie Game Developers from Vlambeer → May 31 Jan Willem Nijman, Co-founder of Vlambeer, on The art of screenshake → May 12 Join us at Microsoft in Chicago for A Day of Unity → May 1 Article on Tut+: Surviving GDC: Tips for Game Conference Success → Feb 12 How to Flappy Bird — A quick tutorial on how to make a flappy bird style prototype using Unity + PlayMaker in under 50 minutes →

2013

Nov 19 Top 10 Reasons to Choose Unity 3D for App and Game Development → Jul 16 We've Joined REACTOR! A Game Accelerator Program in Seattle → Jan 29 4-Week to Making Your First Game, No Coding! →

2012

Nov 8 Single Player Mini-Games → Sep 6 Photos from the PAX Show Floor (PAX Prime 2012, Seattle) → Aug 31 My Giants PAX 2012 Trailer → Aug 29 Posters for PAX, Printed! :) → Aug 19 PAX 2012! → Aug 6 Building a Massively Multiplayer Game with Unity3D → Aug 4 My Giants at Seattle Indies Expo! → Jul 28 Make Games with This! → Jul 27 Oh! To Be Immortalized → Jul 25 Seattle Indies Expo → Jul 4 Time-lapse: Modeling the Shadow Giant - Part 1 → Jun 26 Unity3D + Kinect Awesomeness! - Seattle Unity3D User Group, June 2012 → Jun 11 Wallpaper for you! Robot Nick Wallpaper 1920x1200 → May 22 Nick the Robot Giant - Quick Preview → May 21 Unity3D Asset Store Discussion (and Free Unity Pro Giveaway!) - Seattle Unity3D Usergroup → Apr 8 Time-lapse: Modeling the Robot Giant Nick - Part 3 → Mar 28 Time-lapse: Modeling the Robot Giant Nick - Part 2 → Mar 22 Time-lapse: Modeling the Robot Giant Nick - Part 1 → Mar 17 Character Sketches - Manga Style → Mar 13 Visual Scripting with PlayMaker Demo at Unity3D Seattle Usergroup → Mar 10 Robot vs Rock → Feb 18 A Year Ago at Studio Pepwuper → Feb 11 Giants Synchronized in New Version →

2011

Nov 23 Unity3D Multiplayer Game Development - Unity Networking, Photon, and uLink Comparison for My Giants → Nov 20 What's a City without Its Buildings? → Oct 22 The Real Obstacles → Sep 18 Playable Update - A Practice Room to Test Your Reflexes → Sep 17 My Giants - Controlling Your Giants (dev demo) → Sep 10 My Giants Development Montage, 2011-09-10 → Sep 7 Rock Giant Jumps, Stomps, Punches, and Builds (a wall)! → Sep 3 Concept Art - Shadow the Mysterious Giant → Sep 3 Prototype - Run Megan Run → Sep 3 Run Megan Run - Prototype Video → Aug 27 Screenshot Saturday - Nick the Robot Giant → Aug 20 Multi-player Testing and a New Isometric View → Aug 13 Everything Looks Fancier on the iPad → Aug 5 My Giants 1st Video! → Jul 30 Screenshot Saturday - Hopscotch Saturday → Jul 28 A.... Giant ?! (guess who's back!) → Jul 28 Concept Art - Heroine #1 → Jul 28 Next Leg of the Journey → Jul 28 Screenshot Saturday - 3D Maze → Jul 28 Screenshot Saturday - Development Update → Jul 28 Screenshot Saturday - Multi-player Testing with Unity3D and Photon → Jul 28 What We are Making: Re-creating Childhood Memories → May 3 Touch to Mouse Input Converter for PlayMaker on Unity 3D #unity3d #gamedev → Feb 12 FWD: Brandon Wu Interview – From EA, To Sony, To Indie And Beyond! - Game Rant → Feb 6 FWD: Storytelling in Video Games (video) → Feb 5 FWD: Indie Game News Interviews Brandon Wu of Studio Pepwuper → Feb 5 FWD: Making My First iPhone Game From Scratch Part. 1 | Gamesauce: Global Inspiration for Game Developers → Feb 1 Megan and the Giant for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store → Jan 23 FWD: Spent the last year learning to make games, and it's finally here! (pic) : IndieGaming →

2010

Dec 26 FWD: One Chance. A game where you only have one shot at saving the world. → Dec 7 Reference: How to fix “Base SDK missing” after updating to Xcode 3.2.3/3.2.5 → Nov 19 FWD: col000r: Unity: Have scripts run while the game doesn’t → Nov 13 Getting a Game Prototype Done in 13 Hours? Quick Notes on My Experience with 360iDevGameJam #360iDevGJ → Nov 11 Reference: switching ON/OFF a C# script with a javascript script during runtime. #unity3D → Oct 15 National STEM Video Game Challenge is Now Open! → Oct 12 Fight! - Competition in The Indie Game Industry #indiegames #gamedev → Sep 24 3 Quick Lessons from My Failed Project on Kickstarter → Aug 19 The Giant Of The River Thames: Little Megan's Giant Adventure in London on Kickstarter → Aug 10 FWD: in UK, Independent Studios Choose Self-Publishing, Digital Distribution → Aug 2 For Unity3D Stats Junkies - Web Player Hardware Statistics → Jul 31 Screen Recording Software - Screenflick → Jul 26 Reduce Coding Time with Snippely → Jul 21 FWD: 65 Beautiful Free Fonts for Web and Graphic Designers | Artatm → Jul 20 FWD: In the eyes of Children → Jul 19 FWD: untoldentertainment.com » Six Ways to Tell Stories in Video Games → Jul 16 FWD: HOW TO: Use Game Mechanics to Power Your Business → Jul 15 Unity3D Beginners Tip Of The Day: Dealing with Error “BCE0018: The name… does not denote a valid type.” → Jul 10 Unity3D for Beginners: Adding Shadow / Outline, and Changing Font Size / Color on the Text #Unity3D → Jul 9 Blizzard Is The Pixar Of The Video Game World → Jul 8 Unity Beginner Tip of the Day: Rigidbody Required for Collision/Trigger Events #Unity3D → Jul 3 FWD: Understanding next-gen streaming game services | Web Crawler - CNET News → Jul 2 Unity3D for Beginners: Creating the Visual for the Line of Sight / Vision Cone / Field of View → Jun 28 FWD: “Extra Lives”: Are video games the next great art form? – Nonfiction #gaming → Jun 28 Mini Game Review – Grow Island (flash browser game) → Jun 22 FWD: M2HCulling: Fancy culling system for #Unity3D → Jun 21 #iPhone SDK: 8 Valuable Developer Tools and Services #Unity3D → Jun 11 One Pro of Being an Indie Game Dev - Freedom to Switch Tasks #indie #game #dev → Jun 10 Unity Continues to Impress - New Image Effects in Unity 3.0 #Unity3D → Jun 9 FWD: #Unity Turns 5, Happy Birthday! Rock On! → Jun 6 #Facebook Social Games Bleeding Players #socialgames → Jun 4 iTween for #Unity - Awesome Tool for Animating Objects in #Unity3D → Jun 3 Pop-up / Drop-down Menu on #Unity3D → May 8 Modeling (in 3D): Silo to the Rescue on the Way to Failing Blender ( a list of 3D tools I Looked into) →

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