> There is an interesting theory in linguistics, namely the arbitrariness of the linguistic sign: there is no inherent or necessary connection between a word's sound the signifier and its meaning the signified. Background The arbitrariness of the l...

Overview A Detective Story is a compact detective simulator that brings natural conversation to the heart of interactive fiction, where you can interrogate NPCs using natural languages - as they are powered by LLMs well, SLMs to be precise. A murd...

Overview I've always wanted to develop a video game — in fact, many of them. A Detective Story is far from the first attempt at Methodox; several earlier projects stalled along the way you can still catch a glimpse of one in Codename Wayhomehttps:/...

DevLog 20261002: Desktop Automation Toolbox and Mouse Emulation I remember when I used to use Macro Recorder to automate simple repetitive tasks — I especially liked its macro recording feature. It requires no programming and can easily get tedious...

> Still going strong, and hopefully we will be ready soon. The Divooka Story It's surprising to count—it has already been so many years since the first prototype in 2022, the later attempted updates in 2023/2024, the first "beta" in September 2024 ...

Fantasy Planet Painter Whole-planet-scale fictional world-building: continents, mountain ranges, rivers, valleys, and features as small as individual hills. Maybe eventually trees, buildings, houses, roads, and cities too? That has always been rou...

Fantasy Planet Painter is a world building tool/world map editor by Methodox Technologies, Inc. It allows users to paint world maps using coarse pixels at high level while the algorithm generates all the intricate details procedurally. You can simply...

Methodox Voxel Sandbox is a Windows-only voxel world generator, editor and renderer. You can randomly generate a voxel environment, build inside it, then photograph it with a digital camera. Core Features Seed-Based World Generation: Automatically...

Overview The past few months have seen several Divooka Explore Demohttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4770820/DivookaExploreDemo/ releases, with our efforts focused on rolling out procedural terrain generation features. These include random noise-b...

Revision: 001 Last Update: 2026-05-12 One thing I feel is not discussed enough in typical programming conversations is working with binary data. It often seems as though there is a ready-to-use library for whatever data type we need. But that illu...

> "Can it be simpler?" - A recurring thought I've had while working on build automation. EasyShellhttps://github.com/MethodoxTech/EasyShell command: easy is a minimal shell scripting language designed from the ground up for simplicity and cross-plat...

As we roll out more tools, both internal and public, there has been a growing need for easy-to-maintain shell scripting and build automation. Build automation is complex enough without all the syntax burden - my favorite is to use PowerShell, but oft...

Today we released the first public version of DivookaBenchmarkMandelbrothttps://github.com/MethodoxTech/DivookaBenchmarkMandelbrot — a standardized benchmark suite built specifically to measure the real-world performance of Divooka against a wide ran...

In the world of software engineering, we obsess over programming languages: their syntax, their type systems, their performance characteristics, their paradigms. We debate Rust versus Go, Python's readability versus C++'s control, Haskell's purity ve...

Divooka is a high-performance visual programming platform designed for creators, developers, and world builders. Build applications, generate worlds, process data, and experiment with computation using a powerful node-based system combined with flexi...

Revisiting Flappy Bird – The Pain Point Remember our Flappy Bird example from mid-2025? !The Initialization Sequence for Flappy Bird Game in Divooka Interactive Demohttps://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/509yykxr054pazr7crm6.png ...

Overview In the quiet town of Baytown, an unremarkable man lies dead under suspicious circumstances. Rumors ripple through the streets. Secrets long buried begin to surface. The whole community is buzzing - some in dread, others gripped by dark fas...

Finally, it arrived! Well, not exactly here yet, but getting closer. !Screenshot of Visual Programming in Divooka - Value Assignment of Compound Inputshttps://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/9uefmdr5tir0qjdcfyax.png Overview Divoo...

!Scalar Operationhttps://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/k0nmv1dzv1kuerx8vvr5.png Overview Anything useful done with a program eventually involves file I/O and some form of repetition. In Divooka, the dataflow context already make...