Articles by Sofia Dubois
- Awesome Dungeon review: hand-built dungeons for a world that has run out of fights
- Running events on a small Minecraft server without burning out
- Simple Voice Chat 2.6.24 lands on 26.3, with a 26.4 snapshot alpha three days later
- Patch notes are a design document, and most studios waste them
- Moog’s Missing Villages: the archer’s house has a bow in an item frame
- Travel speed compared, and why the fastest option is rarely the right one
- Why the immersive sim stayed a genre of about five games
- Moog’s Nether Structures: filling the dimension you only pass through
- Difficulty settings are a level design problem wearing a menu
- Mounts: the hidden stats, and why breeding beats searching
- Crop growth: the formula, and the three layout decisions that come out of it
- Bedrock 26.60 brings a native Switch 2 build and 28-chunk render distance
- Roguelite meta-progression: what the permanent upgrade is actually paying for
- Procedural generation and the sameness problem
- Lithium 0.26.1 fixes two critical issues one day into 26.3
- Game jams: the cheapest way to find out if an idea works
- How to keep a modded Minecraft setup from breaking
- Valhelsia Structures review: the one with interiors worth walking into
- Katamari Damacy: a game built from one verb
- Armour trims: where every template is found and why to duplicate before using
- Building without colour: texture, value and why grey builds look better
- Making the Happy Ghast: how Mojang designed a flying mount without breaking the elytra
- What makes a generated structure worth walking to
- How structures generate in Minecraft: spacing, separation and why you cannot find a mansion
- Mob spawning rules explained: light levels, the mob cap and spawn-proofing that works
- Ancient city seeds: how the deep dark generates and how to find one near spawn
- Making farms look good: separating the machine from the building
- Industrial building in Minecraft: palettes, panelling and making machinery look intentional
- Lithium 0.25.3 ships for 26.2, with a backup warning worth reading
- skycrab1 breaks the Minecraft world record with a 6:39 random seed run
- YUNG’s Better Dungeons review: the mod that makes finding a dungeon matter again
- Why hero shooters keep coming back
- Snapshot 5 moves the pack formats again – what data pack and resource pack authors need to know
- Corail Tombstone review: graves, perks and how much death should cost
- Diablo IV seasons explained: what resets, what carries over and why the cycle works
- No Chat Reports 2.20.1 fixes a Vulkan crash, and why a chat mod had one
- Fresh Animations review: the pack that changes how mobs move
- How to install Iris Shaders and run your first shader pack
- Hardcore mode gets a settings change, and the drop date is locked to 16 June
- Reading loot tiers: how to tell which structures are worth your time
- Enchantment Outlines: the resource pack that makes enchanted gear readable again
- YUNG’s Better Ocean Monuments: making the hardest raid in Minecraft worth raiding
- Minecraft combat explained: attack cooldown, reach and why your hits miss
- Alex’s Mobs review: eighty-five creatures that mostly earn their place
- Handcrafted review: the furniture mod that fixes empty Minecraft interiors
- Seven days, one person, one theme: the Experimental Gameplay Project and World of Goo