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Put the DVD logo in the corner (2023)
A blog about making a game to achieve my childhood dream (of getting the DVD logo in the corner)
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 265 posts.
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Space Age release date
Hello, Today we want to share some exciting news!
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The History of Machine Learning in Trackmania
Trackmania: the world's most competitive racing game. In this post, we begin our journey towards training a neural network to superhuman performance, by chronicling the history of previous attempts.
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Getting the World Record in Hatetris (2022)
HATETRIS is the world's hardest version of Tetris; it's Tetris that hates you. In this post, we chronicle our eleven-month journey to get the world record, and some of our wrong turns along the way.
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The first 10k games at bgammon.org, an open source online backgammon service
An overview of the journey so far.
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Conway's Game of Life for curved surfaces (2012)
Conway’s Game of Life is one of the most popular and iconic cellular automata. It is so famous that googling it loads up a working simulation right in your browser! The rules for the Game o…
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Neo Geo Architecture: A practical analysis
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
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Quaternion Differentiation (2012)
I wanted to point someone to a short explanation of this today and noticed, with some surprise, that I couldn’t find something concise within 5 minutes of googling. So it seems worth writing …
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HybridNeRF: Efficient Neural Rendering
Neural radiance fields provide state-of-the-art view synthesis quality but tend to be slow to render. One reason is that they make use of volume rendering, thus requiring many samples (and model queries) per ray at render time. Although this representation is flexible and easy to optimize, most real-world objects can…
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Solving puzzles faster than humanly possible
Can anyone solve 1000 Opus Magnum puzzles in 24 hours? What about with assistance from bots? Will the solutions be any good? Let's find out!
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Generating audio for video
Video-to-audio research uses video pixels and text prompts to generate rich soundtracks
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Atkinson Dithering (2021)
When the Macintosh was released in 1984, it featured a square-pixeled black-and-white display at a crisp 72 dots per inch. The 512x342 resolution might seem less than impressive today, but for the time it was a pleasantly high-resolution consumer-grade computer. Among other things, the monospaced Monaco 9pt bitmap…
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Let's write a video game from scratch like it's 1987
In a previous article I've done the 'Hello, world!' of GUIs in assembly: A black window with a white text, using X11 without any libraries, just talking directly over a socket.
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Curl is inside 22,734 Steam games
About a year ago I blogged about games that use curl. In that post I listed a bunch of well-known titles I knew use curl and there was a list of 136 additional games giving credit to curl. Kind of amazing that over one hundred games decided to use curl! At the time, lots of … Continue reading Inside 22,734 Steam games…
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3D Gaussian Splatting as Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Novel view reconstructions for (right) our method and (left) conventional 3D Gaussian Splatting with random initializations. Our method, even with random initialization, faithfully reconstructs the scene (e.g.. buildings at the back and the ground texture) providing much higher quality renderings.
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Where did you go, Ms. Pac-Man?
We lost the female counterpart to Pac-Man in 2020, but Namco had been plotting her demise years beforehand.
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A most profound video game: a good cognitive aid for research
Baba Is You is a philosophical video game that facilitates the kind of thinking needed for frontier topics in the sciences of life and mind.
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Serialization for C# Games
Build complex state preservation systems for implementing game save systems or custom netcode with Chickensoft's new serialization tools.
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Exponentially Better Rotations (2022)
If you’ve done any 3D programming, you’ve likely encountered the zoo of techniques and representations used when working with 3D rotations. Some of them are better than others, depending on the situation.
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I found a 55 year old bug in the first Lunar Lander game
Update: This kinda blew up! Featured in Hacker News, Ars Technica and PC Gamer, among others. Just months after Neil Armstrong’s historic moonwalk, Jim Storer, a Lexington High School student…
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Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds (2022)
A high-level how-to guide by Lars Doucet and Dan Cook for game designers and game economists working in large multiplayer online games and/or virtual worlds.
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Chaos in the medium: Watercolour plotting
Over the past few weeks, I've been experimenting with painting in watercolours using my AxiDraw plotter. Watercolour is a medium I enjoy painting in (by hand) as a personal hobby, kind of separate from my public art making, so it’s been interesting to combine it with code. I’ve thought about trying
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Serious Sam handled massive amounts of enemies on 56k modem connections
An analysis of the Croatian classic.
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Real-Time Settlers of Catan
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Anti-Cheat Expert: all your pixels are belong to us
a blog about exploring reverse engineering, hypervisor development and software programming.
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Creating a matchmaker for your multiplayer game
Don't test in production. Test in simulation!
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Detecting a PS2 Emulator: When 1*X does not equal X
Using an odd floating point error to detect emulators
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Yes, you can play Duck Hunt without a television (but I can't)
Duck Hunt is considered a classic of the Nintendo Entertainment System. But surprisingly, the concept of hunting ducks did not originate in 1984– people have...
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I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it
The personal website of Elias Daler about programming, technology and videogames