2011
Development Journal for Price of Persia
Jordan Mechner is an author, graphic novelist, screenwriter and video game designer, best known as the creator of Prince of Persia. Follow his latest projects here.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,047 posts.
2012
The Making of Prince of Persia
Jordan Mechner is an author, graphic novelist, screenwriter and video game designer, best known as the creator of Prince of Persia. Follow his latest projects here.
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2014
Escher's "Ascending and Descending" in Lego
Because The LEGO Company get paranoid about this sort of thing let me make it clear that I have no affiliation with them, that my views are my own and do not necessarily represent theirs, and so on. So if you think any of this is official you are as deluded as they are.
2015
2016
Properly Molding the Gamer Child
I grew up a serious gamer in a family of people who really, really weren't. I was, while loved, regarded as an oddity. A peculiar mutation. ...
2017
2018
Air-powered LEGO V8 engine running at 1440 rpm (vid)
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Recreating the THX Deep Note - EarSlap
Procedural music, art, computation and some other things.
2021
Designing Emergent AI
A lot of people have been curious about how the AI in AI War: Fleet Command works, since we have been able to achieve so much more realisti...
2022
Indie games: Still Too Cheap. Getting Cheaper.
I wrote a couple of articles not long ago about how the expected price for Indie games is becoming really cheap. Too cheap to support a th...
2023
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Memoirs of a Poker Bot Developer
Posts about Poker Bot written by Mazur
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Johnny Lee (of wiimote hack fame) was involved in Natal
If you've been wondering why my project blog has been pretty quiet, I can finally say it is because I have been helping Xbox with Project Na...
2028
How to implement 'realistic' swordfighting in video games.
A few weeks ago, I talked about how the d20 system (You know: Hit points, damage rolls, and health potions) was great for tabletop games but terrible for video gaming. I suggested that developers would do well to come up with a new system for dealing with deadly combat rather than using the d20 system when it doesn’t…
2029
The 6502 in “The Terminator”
In the first Terminator movie, the audience sees the world from the T-800’s view several times. It is well-known that in two instances, there is 6502 assembly code on the T-800’s HUD, and many sites have analyzed the contents: It’s Apple-II code taken from Nibble Magazine. Here are HD versions of…
2030
Sid Meier's Rules
The following was published in the January 2009 issue of Game Developer magazine… Most game developers are familiar with Sid’s dictum that “a good game is a series of interesting choice…
2031
Mini Mario Game as Resignation Letter
How do you break the news to your coworkers that you’re leaving your job at a major game studio to pursue indie development? With a game, of course.
2032
Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone engine code review
For once, developers were able to read the source code of an id software product just a few days after its release. I spent a week in my spare time reading the internal of the Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone engine. It is by far the cleanest and easiest id source code release to date. This review is far from being…
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How Many (Indie) Games I Sell - Part Two
The first part of this column, in which I gave the full sales figures for one of my games, Geneforge 4: Rebellion , attracted a fair amount...
2037
So Here's How Many Games I Sell - Indie Game Developer Story
I get a lot of questions from young, aspiring Indie developers, and the most common query is: How many copies of a game does Spiderweb Softw...
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A programmer's view of the Universe, part 2: Mario Kart
Very thought-provoking article. I especially liked the tie-in at the end to the questions modern science is considering about the Big Bang. You make a very valid point -- those sorts of questions are meaningless in the context of the embedded system. The whole time I was reading your Mario Kart analogy, I couldn't…