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Hello, I'm Vaughn Royko.

I'm a website and game developer.

I've also been known to do design, art, and other cool things. I'm currently calling Kelowna, BC my home and Bravo Tango my place of employment. I'm pretty crafty when it comes to HTML5, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, and Wordpress.

I'm probably most notable for Wayward, a retro wilderness survival roguelike, currently in beta and available on Steam.

Selected Works

Bluest Eye

Design, Featured, Web

Classical CD Packaging Photo - Close-up

Classical CD Packaging

Design, Featured

Grow Up - Close-up

Grow Up

Art, Featured

Hunger Clock, Literally Screenshot

Hunger Clock, Literally

Featured, Gamedev

Separate Close-up

Together / Polygamy / Separate

Art, Featured

Dusty Melling Logo

Dusty Melling

Featured, Web


Latest Blogs


YouTube Music After

Fixing YouTube Music’s “New Albums & Singles” Section

July 14th, 2021

It’s been a minute. How about a good helping of fixing some really bad UI/UX decisions from the YouTube Music team as a “welcome back” to writing in this section.

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Moving from Rdio

November 24th, 2015

Sadly, it was announced that Rdio has kicked the bucket. Being proactive, I thought I’d jump ship early. As it turns out, I’m pretty serious about “my music”. It’s something I think about and listen to everyday. So what happens when I have to move “my music”? Well, first we have to decide where to jump ship to.

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Better Upload Filename Sanitization in WordPress

October 28th, 2015

If you are like me, you feel like there is a lot to be desired for how uploaded filenames look in Wordpress. Don’t get me wrong, it does a decent job in terms of making them web-safe (sometimes?), but for actually making a standardized, consistent structure across everything – not so much.

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Latest Reviews


Friends vs Friends

Friends vs Friends Review

November 29th, 2023

You’ve heard of boomer shooters, right? Well, I think we have a new genre with this one: zoomer shooters.

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PogoChamp

PogoChamp Review

November 25th, 2022

It is a game about overcoming controls, trying things, testing your patience, and learning movement mechanics. It rides among other similar games such as “Getting Over It” or “QWOP”, but much less frustrating.

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Noita

Noita Review

December 2nd, 2019

You won’t find anoita game like this one. Besides the puns to be made ad infinitum with the name, the game is a keeper.

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