Uncle Matt builds things and shows you how he did it, ugly drafts and the parts that caught fire included.https://unclemattmakes.com/https://unclemattmakes.com/six-degrees-of-play/2026-06-25-how-games-are-wired-together/https://unclemattmakes.com/six-degrees-of-play/2026-06-25-how-games-are-wired-together/A line between two games can mean two completely different things: one I draw by hand because it tells a story, one the machine infers from the data. Plus the boring duplicate problem that nearly ate the whole project.Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://unclemattmakes.com/polyfish/2026-06-25-why-the-fish-die/https://unclemattmakes.com/polyfish/2026-06-25-why-the-fish-die/Eating in PolyFish gives you zero energy, so every creature is on a countdown clock from the moment it's born. No population caps, no spawners, just collisions and math. The population runs away and crashes on its own, every single time.Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://unclemattmakes.com/six-degrees-of-play/2026-06-24-it-started-with-a-music-map/https://unclemattmakes.com/six-degrees-of-play/2026-06-24-it-started-with-a-music-map/I borrowed the idea off a music influence website, then went looking for the same hidden wiring in games. It turned into a 3D star map of fifty years of game history, and one problem I still haven't cracked.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://unclemattmakes.com/polyfish/2026-06-24-it-started-with-beer/https://unclemattmakes.com/polyfish/2026-06-24-it-started-with-beer/PolyFish is twelve years old and it started with beer. A private VR experiment about yeast and a population curve that crashes on purpose, which turned into an ocean I actually showed people. Here is where the fish came from.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT