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Jordan Mitchell

Senior Basketball Gaming Writer & Arcade Games Specialist

Writes the game guides and strategy articles, and plays every title on the site to breaking point before writing about it.

Biography

Jordan has been writing about browser games since the tail end of the Flash era, when a good basketball game was something you bookmarked and came back to on a slow afternoon. That habit never really went away. These days Jordan builds and breaks small HTML5 arcade games, keeps notes on what separates a shooting game that feels good from one that feels cheap, and turns those notes into the guides on this site.

Every strategy article here starts the same way: play the game until the scoring pattern is obvious, then work out which habits actually raise the score and which ones just feel productive. If a tip has not survived a few dozen runs, it does not make the article.

About this byline

Jordan Mitchell and Casey O’Brien are the editorial bylines used by Basketball Arcade. They write and edit the games coverage on this site. Neither is a professional basketball player, coach, official or employee of any league or basketball organisation, and nothing published here should be read as coming from one.

Areas of expertise

  • HTML5 and Canvas arcade game mechanics
  • Basketball shooting, dunk and timing games
  • Scoring systems, combo design and difficulty curves
  • Mobile and touch controls for browser games
  • Writing practical, testable game strategy

Editorial interests

  • How one-button games stay interesting for more than a minute
  • Difficulty curves that teach instead of punish
  • Accessible controls in fast arcade games
  • The small feedback details that make a make feel like a make

Published pages

Everything Jordan has written or edited on this site, newest first.

Contact

Reach Jordan at jordan@basketballarcade.xyz, or use the contact page. Corrections are welcome and are handled under the fact-checking policy.

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