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Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model
Generating unlimited diverse training environments for future general agents
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Tweaking Stunt Island's 30-year-old 3D engine
Note: the patch is available at the end of the article ( HERE ). This post is about its making-of.
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A simple way to scale pixel art games
Previously in How to present MS-DOS screenshots , I encouraged readers to take the original pixel aspect ratio into account when showing pictures of old games. There’s also a subtler issue to consider: the blur analog display systems had.
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Map UI – Ghost in the Shell
Map UI (User Interface) for the film “Ghost in the Shell” Copyright Shirow Masamune / Kodansha • Bandai Visual • Manga Entertainment •
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How to print your Guild Wars 2 character
2025 update v2: I made a tool that fixes distortions introduced by Intel GPA, and that tool made few sections of this blog obsolete. As such, they’ve been deleted. Old version is still available here.2025 update. This blog post now also exists as a youtube video. Yes, the video is 1 hour 20, so about twice as long as…
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It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Super Cassette Vision
The Epoch Cassette Vision was a moderate success. But in 1983, that all ended, when Nintendo and Sega released new consoles, which had more advanced hardware...
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Quake 3 Source Code Review: Network Model (2012)
The network model of Quake3 is with no doubt the most elegant part of the engine. At the lower level Quake III still abstract communications with the NetChannel module that first appeared in Quake World . The most important thing to understand is: In a fast paced environment any information that is not received on…
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The Deceptively Asymmetric Unit Sphere
The deficiencies of the Unit Sphere and an exploration of Lie groups.
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Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds
A Circle K, a family crime ring, and $400,000 worth of missing Playdates.
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What's Next for WebGPU
Learn about new AI and rendering features discussed at the latest GPU for the Web working group meeting.
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The FORTH code for Chipwits is released in the game's 40th anniversary
To celebrate ChipWits' 40th Anniversary, the original FORTH source code has been open sourced! Learn about the game's history and source code
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OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now
(“make LLMs play better with one weird trick”)
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AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing
How to fix jaggies the analytical way with some juicy secrets
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How to Build a Chess Engine and Fail
A Chess-AI is something every programmer should build at least once and [Sebastian Lague’s](https://www.youtube.com/@SebastianLague) [competition](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iScy18pVR58) was the perfect opportunity for me to do so. Constrained to 1024 tokens I wanted to implement an evaluation function similar to…
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Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess
Are they good or bad?
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Something weird is happening with LLMs and Chess
are they good or bad?
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The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development
Jungle music was found in countless games from the early 90s. This article goes over what jungle is, where it comes from, and why it was the perfect match for PlayStation & Nintendo 64 games.
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From BSP to ESP – How S3ctor Abused Quake Editors to Redefine the Morrowind Mod
S3ctor is a core developer of OpenMW, and has, like most of us to be fair, odd interests. This is the incredible story how he mixed two immensely cool things: Quake, and Morrowind, narrated by our …
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Making a trading Gameboy: A pocket exchange and algo trading platform
An exchange and algo trading station in your pocket!
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Grim Fandango
My one big regret was the PlayStation version [of Broken Sword] . No one thought it would sell, so we kept it like the PC version. In hindsight, I think if we had introduced direct control in this game, it would have been enormous.
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Texture-Less Text Rendering
How to draw text to a Vulkan renderpass without binding a single texture
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How to find exploits in video games
Reverse Engineering: In this guide, I'll walk you through how I create tools to find exploits in video games for bug bounty programs. Specifically, I'll focus on my research into the game Sword of Convallaria. This exploration is purely for educational purposes. As such, I have removed some of the assets as an…
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Using Ghidra and Python to reverse engineer Ecco the Dolphin
Re-routing the encryption
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Implementing a Tiny CPU Rasterizer
This is a tutorial series on implementing a basic CPU rasterization engine in C++ from scratch. No GPU involved, just drawing pixels with our bare hands, emulating what the GPU usually does for us.
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A Hamiltonian Circuit for Rubik's Cube
At last, the Hamiltonian circuit problem for Rubik's Cube has a solution! To be a little more mathematically precise, a Hamiltonian circuit of the quarter-turn metric Cayley graph for the Rubik's Cube group has been found.
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Wonder Animation – Video to 3D Animation
Wonder Dynamics (Autodesk company), launches Wonder Animation, groundbreaking video-to-3D scene technology that accelerates animated film production by turning any video sequence into a 3D-animated scene.
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Crafting Painterly Shaders
A detailed essay on my research and process of building a shader to mimic paint, watercolor, and aquarelle by exploring various implementations of the Kuwahara image smoothing filter.
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Pushing the frontiers of audio generation
Our pioneering speech generation technologies are helping people around the world interact with more natural, conversational and intuitive digital assistants and AI tools.
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Classic 3D videogame shadow techniques
Towards the end of Wim Wenders’s excellent Perfect Days , the protagonist Hirayama is drinking beer under a bridge after he has seen a Businessman courting his crush. Suddenly the Businessman joins him under the bridge. As it turns out, things aren’t actually that simple but the point is their conversation takes them…