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 Hi, I'm Jason Dreambig. In this blog I leave my notes to help make games that help others learn.

This is a sloppy blog where I am saving notes on things I research that involve making games.

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Exporting a Godot 4.4 Game to the Anbernic RG35XX H

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MuOS: Operating System for Game Console

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