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As you may, or may not know, I wrote paraLLEl-RDP back in 2020. It aimed at implementing the N64 RDP in Vulkan compute. Lightning fast, and extremely accurate, plus the added support of up-scaling on top. I’m quite happy how it turned out. Of course, the extreme accuracy was due to Angrylion being used as reference…
Powell's is rightly famed as a destination for book lovers, and I finally made my pilgrimage last weekend. The perils of air travel limited the inevitable splurge -- I had to fit my haul into a single backpack -- but I wound up with some nifty ...
Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups is a technical post about database scalability. What caught my eye was the term . What an odd term — “sharding.” Why would a database be described that way?
UPDATE 2/20/2006: After about a month, the project is now finished. You can go through the series and read my explanations for each step, or you can just page through and gander at the pretty pictures. If you’re the impatient sort, you could just jump to part 10 right now and see how it turned out.
From the outside, Unity lately seems to have a problem or two. By “lately”, I mean during the last decade, and by “a problem or two”, I mean probably over nine thousand problems. Fun! But what are they, how serious they are, and what can be done about it?
With 380MM MAUs, Roblox probably counts more players than the entire AAA gaming ecosystem, is more played than Disney+ is watched, and is starting to rival smaller social networks in scale. But Roblox has yet to profit. How can it become a business comparable to its operating scale?
One of my favorite game jams is the legendary Js13kGames competition, where participants have one month to make a web browser game that fits in a 13 kilobyte zip file. To put that into perspective,…
No magic numbers, no tricky tuning: a clean and flexible approach to designing a smooth high-quality reverb, using a variation on the classic feedback-delay network (FDN) structure.
Efficient filtering of polygonal shapes with closed-form solutions based on Green’s theorem with piecewise-polynomial filters (e.g. box/bilinear/bicubic).
Sweep-and-prune is my go-to algorithm when I want to quickly implement collision detection for a game. I think it’s an awesome and elegant algorithm, so I wrote a post about it.
Back in 2020, Hal Hickel answered a Quora question with great detail about how we created Grand Moff Tarkin for "Rogue One" (2016), and in t...
Isometric games are extremely popular. Let's learn the theory behind isometric projection and how it is used by gamedevs to write isometric-looking games.
Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy: A game save and RCE exploit for the Tony Hawk game series that can be used to hack Xbox, Playstation 2, Gamecube, and Xbox 360 consoles.
Brick Technology’s new video features increasingly powerful Lego machines designed to topple ever stronger towers. I love their iterative engineering videos (an
tl;dr: high_impact is small game engine for 2D action games. It's written in C, compiles to Windows, Mac and Linux as well as to WASM for the Web. It's “inspired by” my original Impact JavaScript game engine from 2010. The name high_impact is a nod to a time when C was considered a high level language.
We are excited to introduce Stable Fast 3D, Stability AI’s latest breakthrough in 3D asset generation technology. This innovative model transforms a single input image into a detailed 3D asset, setting a new standard for speed and quality in the field of 3D reconstruction.
Access Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera OpenUSD Data Set
An overview of some of my favorite shaders, algorithms, and techniques I use to aid my work in procedural gamedev and 3D scenes. It focuses particularly on things that can be added or mixed in to enhance non-procedural scenes.
You open your favourite social media site. You see the same discussions come up again.
If you're a graphics dev looking to understand more about deep learning, this blog introduces the basic principles in a graphics dev context.
If God exists, he must have a sense of humor, for why else would he have strewn so many practical jokes around his creation? Among them is the uncanny phenomenon of the talented writer who absolutely hates to write.
Hugo Hadfield - Cross stack robotics engineer and computer vision researcher specializing in deep learning, sensor fusion, geometric algebra and applications in self-driving cars and robotic manipulation.
To me, a classic JRPG is pure mechanism, a kind of puzzle. Was there some way of getting the fun out of building such a mechanism—of solving that puzzle—, wrapping it with the minimal amount of functionality, the simplest thing that could possibly pass as a video game?
A new way to make games
I’ve never been good at playing football 1 . I started playing again last year and I have scored more own goals than goals for my team. Also, I support the RCD Espanyol 2 , which has spent last season in the second division and has miraculously ascended to the first division last week. And to be honest, I only watch…
“The audio processing thread is stalling because the client’s implementation of some XAudio2 callback is doing things that can block the thread, such as accessing the disk, synchronizing with other threads, or calling other functions that may block. Such tasks should be performed by a lower-priority background thread…
Great success brings with it great expectations. And sometimes it brings an identity crisis as well.
