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Cutout Studios is a Philadelphia-based creative studio focused on building experiences for personal growth. cutoutstudios.com

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Cutout @cutoutstudios.com · 10/09/2026
Days 26-27: coming down to the wire here - we'd avoided using LLMs, but there's no way we're gonna finish in time now. Mostly just to create throwaway editing tools so we don't have to manipulate raw values directly when every hour counts. #JS13K
Audio EditorImage Editor
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Cutout @cutoutstudios.com · 07/09/2026
DAYS 15-25 #JS13K ~1.5kB remaining. Essential before Sept 12th: fill in placeholder enemy behaviors and sound effects.
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Cutout @cutoutstudios.com · 28/08/2026
Day 14: It finally almost... looks like a game 😭 7.5kB - but still a ton of work to do! #JS13K
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Cutout @cutoutstudios.com · 27/08/2026
Day 12 + 13: Thrilled to report we now have a RUDIMENTARY GAME LOOP! Enemies technically fire at you, you can fire back, and the game crashes when you die 🥀 #JS13K
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Cutout @cutoutstudios.com · 24/08/2026
Day 11: Just one more refactor before we get the game fully working... c'mon man... last one I swear... #JS13K
a bunch of broken code errors
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Cutout @cutoutstudios.com · 22/08/2026
Day 9 + 10: BULLETS!!! #JS13K
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Cutout @cutoutstudios.com · 20/08/2026
Day 7 + 8: We wanted to make sure the UI we had planned didn't sneak up on us, so we scaffolded out the bones. It contains an image rendered via polygons (but we're not ready to show it off just yet). 5.4kB!
ship with heads-up displayinventory/pause menu
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Cutout @cutoutstudios.com · 19/08/2026
Day 6: drafted the enemy geometry. 4.1kB! #JS13K
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Cutout @cutoutstudios.com · 18/08/2026
Day 5 - our ship is moving!! Tough to get a truly smooth output from a digital input, but it's good enough to move forward with, we'll tune it later. #JS13k
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Cutout @cutoutstudios.com · 17/08/2026
Day 4 - we've started building. Shapes and colors - all in only 3kB!
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Cutout @cutoutstudios.com · 16/08/2026
Day 3! We were able to simulate a couple seconds of gameplay in paper form! Flying towards the green pack of enemies on the left to take one out, the red pack caught up with us. At the last moment we "spin counter"'d a bullet right back in their face! Time to start building this thing!
Enemies shooting down on the player from above.
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Cutout @cutoutstudios.com · 15/08/2026
Day 2: Long day of brainstorming and prototyping. Distilled the ideas we had down to about ~1kB (unoptimized) RNG code for paper playtesting tomorrow! #JS13k
Brainstorming session with multiple sets of sticky notes
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