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Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips
If there is one thing the Unreal Engine doesn’t suffer from, it is it’s lack of features. Over the past years it has been transformed from “just” a game engine into an ̵…
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Minesweeper thermodynamics
You know how sometimes you start a game of Minesweeper and immediately get stuck?
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The Qweremin
In the summer of 2022 I built a C64-based theremin, described and explained here . The theremin, of course, is one of the oldest electronic instruments. Its main drawback—and strength—is that it's incredibly hard to master. The performer has ultimate control over volume and pitch, but it takes months of practice…
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Making Minecraft Spherical
Discover the unique design challenges of creating a spherical planet out of Minecraft-like blocks.
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Rendering a game in real time with AI
Discover the process of transforming an ASCII game into real-time AI-rendered graphics with fal.ai
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How do I get into the game industry
Every now and then someone tells me that their child loves video games and wants to get into the game industry, then asks me how...
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What is a color space?
In which we answer every question you've ever had about digital color, and some you haven't.
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Optimizing our way through Metroid
How should a fuzzer balance exploration and minimization? Samus has the answer.
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The issue of anti-cheat on Linux (2024)
Why are developers so hesitant to bring anti-cheat solutions to Linux?
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Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license
Get the tools and support you need to transform your CAD and 3D data into immersive, interactive apps and experiences with Unity Industry.
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Bullfrog in the Dungeon
In January of 1995, Electronic Arts bought the prestigious British games studio Bullfrog Productions for an undisclosed sum that was rumored to be in the neighborhood of $45 million. The lives of the 35 or so people who worked at Bullfrog were transformed overnight. Peter Molyneux, the man who had built the studio’s…
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Blurry rendering of games on Mac
ProblemSolutionAffected GamesWhat Apple could do Problem I’ve submitted the issue described in this post to Apple as FB13375033. This issue has been open since September of 2023. If you game …
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SuperSight: A graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's "Stunts"
Clickbait disclaimer: Stunts was actually created by Distinctive Software; Brøderbund was only the publisher. But nobody heard about Distinctive , and I wanted to be sure this article does not get confused with the one about Disney's Stunt Island . Sorry about that.
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Creating the Longest Possible Ski Jump in “The Games: Winter Challenge”
An investigation into The Games; Winter Challenge
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The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing
Download the most advanced FREE DJ software available, featuring iTunes integration, MIDI controller support, internet broadcasting, and integrated music library.
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Genie 3: A new frontier for world models
Today we are announcing Genie 3, a general purpose world model that can generate an unprecedented diversity of interactive environments. Given a text prompt, Genie 3 can generate dynamic worlds that you can navigate in real time at 24 frames per second, retaining consistency for a few minutes at a resolution of 720p.
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3D Line Drawings
This is an experiment examining how to create a 3D line drawing of a scene. In this post, I will describe how this can be done by augmenting the process of generating 3D Gaussian Splats 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering , by Kerbl et al. and leveraging a process to transform photographs into…
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DrawAFish.com Postmortem
A blameful postmortem of how my viral HackerNews project got compromised by legacy passwords, missing auth, and the perils of vibe coding.
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Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions
Doing anti-aliasing on SDF is not as straightforward as it seems. Most of the time, we see people use a smoothstep with hardcoded constants, sometimes with screen space information, sometimes cryptic or convoluted formulas. Even if SDFs have the perfect mathematical properties needed for a clean anti-aliasing, the…
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Rollercoaster Tycoon (Or, MicroProse's Last Hurrah)
I think it touches on two of the most fundamental aspects of human nature. We all like doing something constructive, where we can see that we are creating something from virtually nothing, and we all have a desire to nurture or look after things. This is what the game is all about. You spend hours painstakingly…
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I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave
Streaming gameplay from one machine to another over a network is a reasonably popular use case these days. These use cases demand very, very low latency. Every millisecond counts here. We need to:
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Programming vehicles in games
The fundamental principles needed to get a functional vehicle in your game.
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More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work
I set out a while ago to make a Game Boy cartridge from scratch. This is not a novel goal; bootleg Game Boy cartridges have existed almost as long as the Game Boy itself has, and there are many third-party cartridges now available for purchase , or that have copyleft designs .
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The year of peak might and magic
Some passions are lifelong, but many others fade away over the course of a life, to be replaced by others. Not long after Jon Van Caneghem, the founder of New World Computing, sold his company to 3DO , it started to become obvious to everyone who worked for him that the torch he carried for computer games no longer…
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Most people who buy games on Steam never play them
The amazing thing about Steam and its player base is that they buy games they aren’t going to play. More than likely the person buying your game is not going to play it.
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Algorithms for making interesting organic simulations
Article explaining simulation algorithms that produce complex organic behaviours, starting with the classic physarum algorithm from Jeff Jones.
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Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process
How one million chessboards works
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