BreakTime - Destroy Your Meetings

Running Brick Breaker inside Google Calendar

I’ve got a new game. It’s called BreakTime and it’s Breakout (aka Brick Breaker) running inside Google Calendar. Your meetings are the bricks. It looks like this:

The game can actually (optionally!) decline your meetings after you play. You can install it from the Chrome Webstore or read about the gory details of creating it on my blog.

Creating this was a ton of fun. I particularly enjoyed that while I was embedding a game in a surprising spot, the game made sense for the medium - unlike putting Flappy Bird inside MacOS finder.

I’ve got a ton of people to thank for this project - Ian Henry gave me the idea, Chana Messinger came up with the name, Kelin convinced me I could actually make a chrome extension for this, and I never would have made this without the help of Josh W Comeau's classes.

I hope you like it!

GDC and other work

I’ll be at GDC (the big game development conference) for all of next week to present on stranger video and to meet folks. If you’re going to be at GDC and want to meet up please reach out!

I also made a tool that converts blinks to morse code called telEyegraph. I didn’t think it warranted a full newsletter post, but I thought a few people here might enjoy it.

That’s all for now! I’ll be back in April with some new nonsense.