Andev Labs

Labs

Personal projects and experiments that are not only games: an engine, physics, a card game and this very site.

andevengine

Active
2026

The small 2D TypeScript engine behind the games on this site. It is small on purpose: just enough to understand every piece.

What I explored

A requestAnimationFrame loop with delta time in seconds
Keyboard and mouse input as a set of pressed keys
2D vectors and, in each game, AABB, circle–rectangle and restitution-based collisions
A linearly interpolated camera in Angry Blocks

private readonly loop = (currentTime: number): void => {
  const deltaTime = (currentTime - this.previousTime) / 1000;
  this.previousTime = currentTime;

  this.update(deltaTime);
  this.render();

  this.animationFrameId = requestAnimationFrame(this.loop);
};

The engine loop

andrepatrinicola.com

Active
2026

This site. Static, but with per-language routes, themes and a home page that turns its own text into a game level.

What I explored

Pre-rendering every route with React Router, served from S3 and CloudFront
Three languages with typed dictionaries and their own URLs
Light and dark themes with light-dark() and no flash on load
A ball colliding with DOM text boxes on the home page

Truco

In progress
2026

The Brazilian card game, for desktop, in Lua with the LÖVE framework.

What I explored

Lua classes with the classic library
Deck, hands, table and round resolution with a timer
Card sprites drawn with nearest-neighbour filtering, no smoothing

GamePhysics

Experiment

Four short game-physics experiments: bounce, gravity, projectile and orbit.

What I explored

Integrating velocity and position every frame with delta time
An orbit driven by inverse-square attraction