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How I made a 3D game in 2 KB of JavaScript
Months ago, when I heard that the legendary JS1k game jam would not be continuing, I talked it over with some other devs and decided to help fill the void we would host a 2k game jam on itch called…
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Planetary – a music sequencer that looks like a simple landscape
In short: it's a sequencer that is deliberately designed to work a bit like Michel Gondry's video for Star Guitar :
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GDC 2020 has been postponed
After close consultation with partners in the game development industry & community around the world, organizers have made the difficult decision to postpone the Game Developers Conference this March.
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Building a command line tool to design a farm layout in Stardew Valley
This week's post will cover a command line tool that helps you play the video game Stardew Valley .
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Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3 (2018)
Welcome, This is the index page for my "Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3" small series where I select some rendering tec...
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Myst: the Drawbacks to Success
Robyn Miller, one half of the pair of brothers who created the adventure game known as Myst with their small studio Cyan, tells a story about its development that’s irresistible to a writer like me. When the game was nearly finished, he says, its publisher Brøderbund insisted that it be put through “focus-group…
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Programming a space invader in OCaml and OpenGL: lessons learned
After a first experience with ReasonML, I wanted to check if its parent language, OCaml, was also that good. It took me an entire game to form a clear opinion.
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Beyond Bézier Curves (2013)
There is a new feature of Pages and Keynote, not mentioned in any of Apple’s publicity nor in any press coverage I’ve seen, that is really very interesting. Perhaps it will even one day prove to ha…
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Ray Tracing Essentials, Part 1: Basics of Ray Tracing
Ray Tracing Essentials is a seven-part video series hosted by the editor of Ray Tracing Gems, NVIDIA’s Eric Haines.
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Dolphin Progress Report: December 2019 and January 2020
The Progress Report has come and with it some major changes and decisions. However, before we get into new things, we need to go over an ongoing change as we've seen some users struggling. In the last progress report, we updated our project solutions to Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2019. We thought there would be no…
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Rescuing vintage arcade video games from an abandoned ship (2016)
Regular readers of this blog will have seen me reference “Arcade Raids” in previous articles. This might create images in your head of hooded gangs of arcade collectors breaking into warehouses in …
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OK Doomer
What’s the best shooter to play in 2020? Where can gamers find the coolest weapons, the hardest enemies, and the most thrilling challenges? There’s a lot of ...
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Let's remove quaternions from every 3D engine (2018)
To represent 3D rotations graphics programmers use Quaternions . However, Quaternions are taught at face value . We just accept their odd multiplication tables and other arcane definitions and use them as black boxes that rotate vectors in the ways we want. Why does $\mathbf{i}^2=\mathbf{j}^2=\mathbf{k}^2=-1$ and…
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Godot 3.2
Godot contributors are thrilled and delighted to release our newest major update, Godot 3.2! It's the result of over 10 months of work by close to 450 contributors who authored more than 6000 commits! Godot 3.2 is a major improvement over our previous 3.1 installment, bringing dozens of major features and hundreds of…
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The Infinite Loop That Wasn't
Once upon a time there was a game for the GBA by the name of Hello Kitty Collection: Miracle Fashion Maker. It was a cutesy game based on the famous Sanrio Hello Kitty franchise, developed by Access. But hidden beneath the surface of the seemingly innocuous title was an insidious problem. Somehow, this simple game…
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Rough.js v4.0 – hand-drawn, sketchy graphics
Rough.js is a light weight javascript library that lets you draw graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance.
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Master of Orion
Given the shadow which the original Master of Orion still casts over the gaming landscape of today, one might be forgiven for assuming, as many younger gamers doubtless do, that it was the very first conquer-the-galaxy grand-strategy game ever made. The reality, however, is quite different. For all that its position…
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Reverberations: An 8-bit approach to J.S. Bach
The toccata is perhaps the most well-known work in the entire organ repertoire. Like many toccatas, it is probably a transcribed improvisation. It has been postulated that this was a test tune that Bach would play when trying out new organs. That would explain its crude character and the various hops between heavy…
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Gamedev Tutorial: Dot Product, Rulers, and Bouncing Balls
[latexpage] 本文之中文翻譯在此 Prerequisites Trignometry Basics – Sine & CosineTrigonometry Basics – Tangent, Triangles, And CannonballsInverse Trigonometric Functions, Slope Angles, And Facing Objects Overview The dot product is a simple yet extremely useful mathematical tool. It encodes the relationship between two vectors'…
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Demoscene, the secret behind Finnish game industry
This is my story as a game developer. It is also a story of how the Finnish game industry came to be.
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The Polygons of Another World: Super Nintendo
This article is part of a study about the ports of Another World. It is highly recommended to read Another World 101 before reading this.
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Vulkan 1.2
The Khronos Group announces the release of the Vulkan 1.2…
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Real-Time Ray-Tracing in WebGPU
Intro By the end of 2018, NVIDIA released the new GPU series Turing, best known for its ability of accelerated ray tracing. Ray tracing is the process of simulating light paths from reality. In reality, billions of rays get shot around you and at some point, hit your eyes. Up...
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Video Gaming Will Take Over
It’s replicating the most lucrative entertainment businesses on earth… and then adding a lot more.