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Coffee With Developers • Nov 13, 2024

Creating games to make the web fun again

Nolan Royalty

Burned out by ad-driven software development? Discover how Nolan Royalty reignites pure engineering joy by intentionally abusing constraints to ship bizarre, ephemeral web games.

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