GameMakerBlog https://gamemakerblog.com Insights at the intersection of game development, programming and modern tech. Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:57:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gamemakerblog.com/public/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/cropped-GMB-e1693797866228-32x32.png GameMakerBlog https://gamemakerblog.com 32 32 2408438 Why Most Telegram Tap Games Fail at 1,000 Players https://gamemakerblog.com/2026/03/12/why-most-telegram-tap-games-fail-at-1000-players/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-most-telegram-tap-games-fail-at-1000-players https://gamemakerblog.com/2026/03/12/why-most-telegram-tap-games-fail-at-1000-players/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:57:13 +0000 https://gamemakerblog.com/?p=15318 Telegram tap games look incredibly simple. A player taps a button.Their score increases. That’s it. But once a few thousand players join, many of these games suddenly start lagging…or crashing completely. The surprising part is that the problem usually isn’t the game logic or the frontend. It’s the backend architecture. After building several tap-style games, […]

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]]> https://gamemakerblog.com/2026/03/12/why-most-telegram-tap-games-fail-at-1000-players/feed/ 0 15318 Really why Caesars Palace Gambling Gets Extra Taxed in 2026 https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/12/05/really-why-caesars-palace-gambling-gets-extra-taxed-in-2026/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=really-why-caesars-palace-gambling-gets-extra-taxed-in-2026 https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/12/05/really-why-caesars-palace-gambling-gets-extra-taxed-in-2026/#respond Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:31:32 +0000 https://gamemakerblog.com/?p=15315 Once again, the Gods spread cheeks and ram Taxes in I like pain. That’s why I gamble at Caesars and file with the IRS. Under the new One Big Beautiful Bill Act, gamblers can only deduct 90% of their losses starting in 2026. That means if you win and lose the same amount, you still […]

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]]> https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/12/05/really-why-caesars-palace-gambling-gets-extra-taxed-in-2026/feed/ 0 15315 BETMGM Users need to stop gambling by Dec 31 https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/12/04/betmgm-users-need-to-stop-gambling-by-dec-31/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=betmgm-users-need-to-stop-gambling-by-dec-31 https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/12/04/betmgm-users-need-to-stop-gambling-by-dec-31/#respond Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:54:44 +0000 https://gamemakerblog.com/?p=15312 Attention, BETMGM Users: The IRS Thinks Breaking Even Is a Profit Now Imagine this: You win $10,000. Then you lose $10,000. In any rational world, that’s called breaking even. But welcome to America, where the IRS now calls that a $1,000 taxable gain, thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Yes, that’s the actual […]

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]]> https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/12/04/betmgm-users-need-to-stop-gambling-by-dec-31/feed/ 0 15312 New Tax Rule: Quit Gambling at FANDUEL by Dec 31 https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/12/04/new-tax-rule-quit-gambling-at-fanduel-by-dec-31/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-tax-rule-quit-gambling-at-fanduel-by-dec-31 https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/12/04/new-tax-rule-quit-gambling-at-fanduel-by-dec-31/#respond Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:57:21 +0000 https://gamemakerblog.com/?p=15309 The Government Found a Way to Tax Nothing You know what’s amazing about the U.S. tax code? It somehow found a way to tax zero dollars. Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (which, I swear, sounds like it was named by a drunk marketing intern), if you win and lose the exact same amount […]

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]]> https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/12/04/new-tax-rule-quit-gambling-at-fanduel-by-dec-31/feed/ 0 15309 The Truth about Prompt Training https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/09/11/the-truth-about-prompt-training/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-truth-about-prompt-training https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/09/11/the-truth-about-prompt-training/#respond Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:50:09 +0000 https://gamemakerblog.com/?p=15305 You see him, right? The guy in your office. Stays late even when nothing’s behind. The one who brags about “saving cost” by using free AI models. He thinks he’s the team player. He’s not. He’s the dataset. OpenRouter literally publishes the flag. “No Prompt Training.” Some routes: ✅. Others: ❌. And, surprise, the free […]

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]]> https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/09/11/the-truth-about-prompt-training/feed/ 0 15305 Git good with Vibe Coding https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/09/09/git-good-with-vibe-coding/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=git-good-with-vibe-coding https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/09/09/git-good-with-vibe-coding/#respond Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:55:53 +0000 https://gamemakerblog.com/?p=15302 Vibes are great. Flow is great. But when Claude decides to “help” by deleting your login code so one unit test goes green, you either reload from a clean save… or you spend the night untangling “undo the undo” in fourteen tabs. Git is your save system. Use it after each completed prompt vibe. Review, […]

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]]> https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/09/09/git-good-with-vibe-coding/feed/ 0 15302 Good Engineers avoid Pain, Great Engineers Survive it https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/08/31/good-engineers-avoid-pain-great-engineers-survive-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=good-engineers-avoid-pain-great-engineers-survive-it https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/08/31/good-engineers-avoid-pain-great-engineers-survive-it/#respond Sun, 31 Aug 2025 19:02:14 +0000 https://gamemakerblog.com/?p=15299 Alright, listen. I have seen this story before. Different labels on the servers, same smell in the smoke. Everyone is cheering for the new co-pilot. The dashboards open fast, the buttons click, the demo hums. It looks finished. That is the trick. It always looks finished right before it collapses. There used to be a […]

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]]> https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/08/31/good-engineers-avoid-pain-great-engineers-survive-it/feed/ 0 15299 A simple PSA to SaaS Vibe Coders https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/08/23/a-simple-psa-to-saas-vibe-coders/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-simple-psa-to-saas-vibe-coders https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/08/23/a-simple-psa-to-saas-vibe-coders/#respond Sat, 23 Aug 2025 14:14:00 +0000 https://gamemakerblog.com/?p=15296 Liability, Contracts, and Code Insurance Let’s skip the performance. No launch thread, no confetti charts. Just you, me, and the part of building we both try not to look at. You know the place. After deploy, before consequences. The room where it is very quiet, where logs blink in that polite way right up until […]

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]]> https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/08/23/a-simple-psa-to-saas-vibe-coders/feed/ 0 15296 So, 80 Dollars for Games is the new Base Price https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/05/05/so-80-dollars-for-games-is-the-new-base-price/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=so-80-dollars-for-games-is-the-new-base-price https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/05/05/so-80-dollars-for-games-is-the-new-base-price/#comments Mon, 05 May 2025 21:29:56 +0000 https://gamemakerblog.com/?p=15282 🎮 Seriously, Guys? Okay, look. I’m a programmer. I’m used to being cynical about big tech, sure. But this? This is next-level greed that makes even Bezos seem modest. You know capitalism, right? Competition, market forces, invisible hands, Adam Smith nodding sagely from the afterlife? That’s the stuff we’re sold on. But what we’ve just […]

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]]> https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/05/05/so-80-dollars-for-games-is-the-new-base-price/feed/ 2 15282 Stop getting big billed with AI Pay Per Use Models https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/04/27/stop-getting-big-billed-with-ai-pay-per-use-models/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stop-getting-big-billed-with-ai-pay-per-use-models https://gamemakerblog.com/2025/04/27/stop-getting-big-billed-with-ai-pay-per-use-models/#respond Sun, 27 Apr 2025 18:17:24 +0000 https://gamemakerblog.com/?p=15279 You know what’s worse than a silent bug?Getting hit with a $300 bill because you accidentally “vibed” too hard on an AI coding tool and didn’t know how tokens work. If you’re using pay-per-use AI services like ROO, or spinning up Gemini sessions with your own API key, or testing random GPT APIs, you better […]

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