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Smooth Voxel Terrain, Part 2 (2012)
Last time we formulated the problem of isosurface extraction and discussed some general approaches at a high level. Today, we’re going to get very specific and look at meshing in particular.…
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Castlevania III Password Algorithm
An explanation of the Castlevania III password algorithm, including name hashes, payload encoding, decoding, special names, and all valid passwords.
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50 Years of Text Games – A 2021 Journey from Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon
A 2021 Journey from Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon
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Architecture of the Game Boy Advance
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
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Why are video games graphics challenging? Productionizing rendering algorithms
Intro This post will cover challenges and aspects of production to consider when creating new rendering / graphics techniques and algorithms – especially in the context of applied research fo…
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Raytracing won't simplify AAA real-time rendering
Realtime rendering and videogame programming mostly, but I love computer science and visuals in all their forms. This is a notepad of my ideas.
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A first look at Ghidra’s Debugger – Game Boy Advance Edition
Building Ghidra and reviewing the debugging features
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A review of Dominion, 4000 plays later (2012)
This was an entry for the Voice of Experience review contest, which aims to compile reviews written by those that are experienced with the games they review. Like reading a novel, playing a board g…
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Learning to Play the Chaos Game
I, Thomasina Coverly, have found a truly wonderful method whereby all the forms of nature must give up their numerical secrets and draw themselves through number alone…
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MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules
In 2016, we introduced AlphaGo, the first artificial intelligence (AI) program to defeat humans at the ancient game of Go. Two years later, its successor - AlphaZero - learned from scratch to master Go, chess and shogi. Now, in a paper in the journal Nature, we describe MuZero, a significant step forward in the…
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Cakelisp: A Programming Language for Games
Update: See the Hacker News thread , /r/programming , /r/ProgrammingLanguages , /r/gamedev , and /r/lisp posts for discussions on this article and Cakelisp.
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Lode Runner
It’s always been a bit of a balancing act to decide which games I write about in detail here — a matter of balancing my level of personal interest in each candidate against its historical importance. In the early years of this project especially, when I still saw it as focusing almost exclusively on narrative-oriented…
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Rebooting a 15 year-old game written in D – Part 1 Compiling
While exploring D recently, I remembered a game I played while at university 15 years ago. For a long time, I couldn’t remember the name at all, only that it was from a Japanese developer. After some search wrangling, I finally managed to find the name of the game: Torus Trooper!
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Bevy 0.4: data oriented game engine built in Rust
A little over a month after releasing Bevy 0.3, and thanks to 66 contributors, 178 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the…
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Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077
Realtime rendering and videogame programming mostly, but I love computer science and visuals in all their forms. This is a notepad of my ideas.
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Far Cry: How the Fire Burns and Spreads (2012)
INTRO A few years ago, I got the opportunity to architect and code the fire propagation system in Far Cry 2. At that time, it was a gigantic task and it scared the hell out of me. Luckily, it turned out well enough. With the upcoming Far Cry 3, several people recently asked me how
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SuperRT – Realtime Raytracing on the SNES
Video links for this article: Short trailer Walkthrough and technical details Update 31th May 2021: The source code for SuperRT has now been released. I’m pleased to finally have some results to show for a project I’ve been working on in my spare time for the last year or so. The idea originated when I was trying to…
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Plotting patterns in music with a fantasy record player
A blog about signals, programming, music, and other stuff.
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AR with SceneKit and Metal
Recently I found myself needing to process and visualize both point clouds and meshes in an iOS application utilizing ARKit, with the point cloud being gathered using the 2020 iPad “LiDAR” sensor. To enable maximum performance and content creation convenience I thought it would be nice to have both custom shaders and…
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Little Things That Made Amiga Great
To most people, the Amiga is probably synonymous with the Amiga 500 and that machine was, above all, a video game: something into which you plonked 3.5" floppy disks that transported you to strange, wonderful worlds and hours of fun. To this group, the gamers, the operating system wasn't important. They probably…