📱 Coming this May: Build worlds your way
May is packed with practical live sessions designed to make you a sharper creator. We’re covering the art of reverse-engineering great game design, putting your most recent builds in the spotlight, and offering up AI workflows that free up time at every stage of your process. Plus, you can expect all new Build-Along and Feature Detective sessions to round out the month.
🖌️How It’s Made: Reverse-Engineering Game Art
🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, May 7 @ 11:00 AM PT
Host: SpaceGlitterUnicorn
One of the fastest ways to level up is to study the great work you already know and love. In this session, SpaceGlitterUnicorn breaks down existing game assets to uncover the lighting, texture, and design techniques that make them so effective.
🗺️“Whatcha Building?”: Community World Tour
🗓️ Date & Time: Tuesday, May 12th @ 5:00 PM PT
Host: MKE_TheGuru
Want your world featured live? Submit it here for a chance to walk the community through what you’ve been building. If selected, MKE_TheGuru will screen share from inside your world while you take questions in real time and explain your workflows.
🤖 Do More of What You Love: Practical AI for Every Role
🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, May 14th @ 11:00 AM PT
Host: MikeyAce
There’s an AI workflow that can take the friction out of whatever you’re working on right now. MikeyAce shows you how to use these tools to move past the work that’s slowing you down, whether that’s designing, sticking to timelines, or writing code.
🕵️ Noesis Build-Along, Part 2: Feature Detective
🗓️ Date & Time: Tuesday, May 19th @ 5:00 PM PT
Host: SeeingBlue, Ashes2Ashes2, MKE_TheGuru
Feature Detective is back! Watch your mentors turn last month’s UI plans into working TypeScript components and a code base for a small-scale game loop.
🤳 Going Mobile First (Without Breaking Your Game)
🗓️ Date & Time: Wednesday, May 21st @ 11:00 AM PT
Host: Ashes2Ashes2
Building across surfaces means making the tough calls about what to cut and what to rework. Join us for this session as Ashes2Ashes2 takes us through the decisions and tradeoffs she makes in her own mobile-first workflow.
🕵️ Noesis Build-Along, Part 3: Feature Detective
🗓️ Date & Time: Monday, May 26th @ 5:00 PM PT
Host: SeeingBlue, Ashes2Ashes2, MKE_TheGuru
Our Feature Detective Noesis Build-Along picks up where we left off with the tamagotchi project we started last month. Whether you’ve followed every part or you’re jumping in fresh, see how the pieces come together as our expert mentors build out the next layer.
🎯 Worlds Playtest
🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, May 28th @ 11:00 AM PT
Host: GausRoth
What’s one of the fastest ways to find out what’s working in your world? Put it in front of real players. Join GausRoth for this month’s Worlds Playtest to surface real-time feedback alongside your fellow creators. Submit your world here to be featured.
