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A review of Dominion, 4000 plays later (2012)
This was an entry for the Voice of Experience review contest, which aims to compile reviews written by those that are experienced with the games they review. Like reading a novel, playing a board g…
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MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules
In 2016, we introduced AlphaGo, the first artificial intelligence (AI) program to defeat humans at the ancient game of Go. Two years later, its successor - AlphaZero - learned from scratch to master Go, chess and shogi. Now, in a paper in the journal Nature, we describe MuZero, a significant step forward in the…
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Bevy 0.4: data oriented game engine built in Rust
A little over a month after releasing Bevy 0.3, and thanks to 66 contributors, 178 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the…
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Godot's 2D engine gets several improvements for upcoming 4.0
While the focus of Godot 4.0 Vulkan rewrite has largely been improvements to the 3D engine, the 2D side will also see several improvements.
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Sega VR Revived: Emulating an Unreleased Genesis Accessory
We managed to virtualize Sega’s virtual reality headset without ever touching the hardware!
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Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive
Great news for everyone concerned about the Flash end of life planned for end of 2020: The Internet Archive is now emulating Flash animations, games and toys in our software collection. In the early 1990s, web browsers were incredibly powerful compared to what came before - with simple files written in HTML that could…
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Using GANs to Create Fantastical Creatures
Posted by Andeep Singh Toor, Stadia Software Engineer and Fred Bertsch, Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Creating art for digital vid...
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Factorio 1.1 is getting close
1.1 is getting close kovarex I have been tracking the amount of tasks and forum bugs required to finish 1.1 since the 1.0 release. This allowed me to get quantifiable feedback whether we are actually keeping the timeframe of the 1.1 release reasonable, or digging too deep and expanding the scope too much. If we…
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Babylon.js 4.2
Our mission is to create one of the most powerful, beautiful, and simple web rendering engines in the world. Our passion is to make it…
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Complex text layouts progress report in Godot game engine
Report on the complex text layouts support implementation progress, including changes to Godot's Font resources, and UI mirroring and BiDi implementation details.
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Why Rust Is the Future of Game Development
Rust, not related to the video game also called Rust, is a promising systems programming language with novel features ideally suited for game development. Exposure and awareness within the game developer community, however, remains limited. In this post, I provide a gentle introduction to Rust and attempt to justify…
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Bevy 0.3: game engine built in Rust
A little over a month after releasing Bevy 0.2, and thanks to 59 contributors, 122 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the…
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Menu simulation, Spidertron, Ghost building, Confirm button
Menu simulation V453000 In the last FFF, we presented that we now have the capability to show real game simulations in the Tips and tricks. Naturally we asked ourselves what else could we use this new technology for... We've dreamed about this multiple times in the past, but the technical roadblocks didn't make us…
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Build a Game This November with GitHub Game Off
Game Off, our annual game jam (a hackathon for building games) returns this weekend. Participants will be given a secret theme on November 1 and will have the entire month…
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Developing Multitile Creatures in Roguelikes
Describing technical and design issues associated with having creatures that occupy multiple cells in the grid-based world of a roguelike, with solutions.
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Krita 4.4.0
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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Top games from the JS13K 2020 competition
The ninth annual js13kGames competition wrapped up last weekend with over 220 games submitted. All created in a month and in less than 13kB of JavaScript. For anyone not in…
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ScummVM “Interactive Fantasy” 2.2.0 Sees the Light
A new release of ScummVM is ready. This is a thrilling one because we are embracing adventure games as far back as 1976! That’s right, the infamous Colossal Cave Adventure, the very first Interactive Fiction game, is now supported by ScummVM. Besi…
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Amnesia is now open source
Modding has been a huge part of Amnesia. For instance, over the years The Dark Descent has accumulated over a thousand mods and addons on ModDB. This flood of user content has been amazing to see and we are extremely grateful for the whole community surrounding it all. It is time we gave something back! So today we…
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Bevy 0.2
A month after the initial Bevy release, and thanks to 87 contributors, 174 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the Bevy 0.…
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Oculus Quest 2
Shop the Meta Quest 2 all-in-one VR headset and immerse yourself within new virtual worlds. Explore everything that our second gen VR device has to offer.
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The Legend of GayBlade
The recently released video game documentary High Score includes a sequence in the third episode about a game called GayBlade. GayBlade is one of the first commercially-sold LGTBQ-themed video games, a role-playing romp for Windows and Macintosh occasionally referred to as "Dungeons and Drag Queens". Once thought to…
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The Rapier Physics Engine
In our announcement last week, we briefly mentioned this new physics engine we have been working on during the past 5 months.
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Teletext Bad Apple
Acorn, BBC Micro and Retro Computer Code & Demos
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Factorio 1.0
Hello, the atmosphere in the last week was kind of special. We experienced the feeling of the final release being on the horizon many times. And we were shown that it isn't the case time and time again. So it feels very special when it is actually becoming reality. We were trying to be especially careful with any last…
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