Skater Dad Software aka. Mike

Skateboarding. Mountain Biking. Indie Games. Web apps. You know, all the extreme stuff.

Games & Apps

  • Apple Spider

    Apple Spider

    When life gives you spiders, make APPLE SPIDER!

  • Santa Skate

    Santa Skate

    Skate across rooftops to save Christmas!

  • Animating Rocks

    Animating Rocks

    An easy to use stick figure animation app, right in your browser! Great for learning the basics of frame-by-frame animation.

Blog Posts & Tutorials

  • Optimizing Page Load Perf with @11ty/eleventy-img

    Have an 11ty site? Have images? @11ty/eleventy-img makes it easy to speed up your site.

  • Put Your Bitmap Fonts in an Atlas!

    Did you know that Bitmap Fonts can be added to the same Texture Atlas as the rest of your UI textures? I sure didn't. Read on to see how I measured and optimized my game's UI performance.

  • How To Use The LibGDX GLProfiler

    When optimizing a LibGDX game's performance, sometimes you need to look under the hood. Let's add the GLProfiler to a Screen and see how (in)efficiently we're rendering.