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Today, Downpour comes out! In case you don't know, Downpour is the game creation tool I have been working on for the past few years. I started it after I left Niantic in October 2022, and I have been working on it ever since then (with breaks for illness
What happens if you take motion blur past its logical extreme? Here are some fun observations and ideas I encountered while trying to answer this question, with an attempt to apply the results in a procedural animation.
In this series of tutorials, we will delve into creating simple 2D games in Common Lisp. The result of the first part will be a development environment setup and a basic simulation displaying a 2D sce...
Awhile back, I had the chance to dump a game for MAME. I told myself that if the chance ever came up again, I’d contribute again. Luckily, it turns...
I’m unsure how popular GameNOW magazine was, but over the course of two years, they pulled off one of the weirdest running gags I’ve seen in a game magazine, just to have fun at the expense of an irate reader who didn’t like Final Fantasy VIII .
Since the 2019 SIGGRAPH course [1], Geometric Algebra, and Euclidean PGA (plane-based or projective geometric algebra) in particular, has been gaining traction within the computer graphics and machine learning communities [2, 3, 4]. Despite its broad applicability, including for higher dimensional geometry and…
How to implement 1D LUTs to color grayscale thermal vision videos, 3D LUTs for color correct and smart hacks from video games
This post is based on my project in my Computer Vision class last semester
The Amiga was a spectacle of graphics and sound when it debuted in 1985. While it can trivially display colorful images like in the above example, doing so in the context of a game engine presents a lot of unique challenges.
VileR's blog: old school PCs, games, graphics, programming, fonts, demos, and so on.
Board gaming is such a lovely hobby to keep your mind and your company on edge. No bright blue …
I am trying to capture “through the optics” pictures of the AVP, and it is unveiling both interesting information on how the AVP works and the second test pattern I tried “broke&#…
A bit over two months ago I started to contribute a bit of code to Blender’s Video Sequence Editor (VSE). Did you know that Blender has a suite of video editing tools? Yeah, me neither :) Even the feature page for it on the website looks… a bit empty lol.
A scene from the Amiga game Defender of the Crown, released in 1986. For years, no other home computer came close to screens like these.
I'm very interested in the history of Dungeons & Dragons , but I'm not a historian – especially when compared to someone like Jon Peterson. ...
A deep dive into investigating and reducing the flutter distortion on the soundtrack of Steamboat Willie (1928).
I love raytracers; in fact I’ve written half a book about them. Probably less known is my love for the ZX Spectrum , the 1982 home computer I grew up with, and which started my interest in graphics and programming. This machine is so ridiculously underpowered for today’s standards (and even for 1980s standards), the…
RAWRLAB Games, as an official middleware Nintendo developer, provides an unofficial Godot port for Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 development at no cost to approved Nintendo developers that qualify as "Godot Ecosystem Contributors" according to the terms mentioned in this announcement . This port is intended…
An online book about collision detection using Processing.
Using a game use-case to motivate and explain PIDs
Mario Maker 2 API, created Thursday, February 10, 2022
Random numbers can be useful in graphics and game development, but they have a pesky and sometimes undesirable habit of clumping together. This is a problem in path tracing and monte carlo integrat…
When we left Richard Garriott, California Pacific had just released his first game, Akalabeth , a substantial windfall for the 19-year-old university student. In between classes and SCA events, he spent his sophomore year at the University of Texas writing a new, much more ambitious game, which CP published just as…
Why do I do this to myself? I have no idea. Anyway, let's learn how to eat disk space.
Creating small games is an enjoyable endeavor in itself. So what constitutes a small game? According to the 'Small Game Manifesto', 1 it refers to games that conclude within 10 minutes and can be easily played on browsers.
How I fit a graphical game in C# into 2 kilobytes, with no .NET runtime required.
