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

A 2D TypeScript engine that runs the four Canvas games on this site. It takes care of the loop, input and the canvas; collision, physics and cameras live in each game's own code.

Technical details

Game class: 2D context, a requestAnimationFrame loop, delta time in seconds and load, update and render hooks
Input: keeps the set of pressed keys and treats the mouse button as one more key
Cursor: mouse position converted to canvas coordinates
Vector2 for positions, velocities and directions
Used by Classic Pong, Spaceship Meteor, Flappy Thing and Angry Blocks; each game ships its own copy of the engine in its repository

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.

Technical details

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.

Technical details

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.

Technical details

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