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Art of Roads in Games
How games implement roads
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The Little Bool of Doom (2025)
A short story about debugging and how sometimes what's true is false. Starring everyone's favourite uncle, Undefined Behaviour.
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I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color
I made a Game Boy Color game that renders images in real time. The player controls an orbiting light and spins an object.
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Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL
Experimental simulation of emergent complexity through graph-rewriting automata.
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I reversed Tower of Fantasy's anti-cheat driver: a BYOVD toolkit never loaded
How four layers of authentication in a production anti-cheat driver still hand you a complete BYOVD toolkit
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Building a 24-bit arcade CRT display adapter from scratch
In November, my friend and fellow Recurser, Frank , picked up an arcade machine for the Recurse Center . We call it the RCade. He wanted to leave the original CRT in - which I think is a great choice! - and drove it off of a Raspberry Pi. Eventually we wanted to move to a more powerful computer, but we needed a way to…
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Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production
Note: I’ve seen some online chatter about the possibility that the footage shared in this post could be AI generated (which is pretty depressing, but here we are I suppose). I just wanted to …
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A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words
A few days ago, The new York Times (owner of Wordle) announced that from 2 February it would start reusing some words from previous years. Their announcem...
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Resurrecting Crimsonland – Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game
Recovering and preserving Crimsonland, the 2003 top-down shooter, through reverse engineering of its original binary.
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Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine
I built a scriptable 3D game engine for the Nintendo DS so you can write and run games directly on the console itself. Written in C using libnds , it compiles to a 100KB .nds ROM that runs at 60 FPS . Features a touch-based code editor on the bottom screen and real-time 3D rendering on the top screen. Ships with a…
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Dithering – Part 2: The Ordered Dithering
Understanding Threshold Map in Ordered Dithering.
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Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow
With the stability gained over the past five Godot 4 releases, it's time for polish and quality-of-life improvements for everyday development.
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Video Games as Art
Video games are art, but a strange art: their essence is transformation of the player, not description to the player. This makes meaningful criticism nearly impossible—you can point at the moon, but it’s not the moon, and once someone sees it, they no longer need the pointing.
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Implementing a tiny CPU rasterizer (2024)
In the OpenGL course I'm teaching at a university, my students learn that the GPU uses something called rasterization to draw stuff on the screen. Then, I explain how — in theory — rasterization works, e.g. how would one write the code to draw a fixed triangle on screen. Of course, the GPU does that for us, but it is…
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Snow Simulation Toy
One of the first significant things I ever coded in QBasic was a falling snow simulation- I think they're very soothing to watch, fun to customize, and there's lots of possibilities for extra little delight. Here's one I built on idle afternoons over the holidays this year at my parents. Enjoy!
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Letting Claude play text adventures
Experiments in cognitive architecture.
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Design and Implementation of Sprites
So that we may educate as well as horrify: the internals of our new Sprites execution platform.
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The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (2019)
In 1998 Looking Glass Studios released the stealth game Thief: The Dark Project . This was just as 3D hardware acceleration was taking off, so due to the development cycle it didn't use hardware acceleration; it was a purely software-rendered game.
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We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
AI autonomously manages a theme park in the classic game RollerCoaster Tycoon, placing rides, fixing infrastructure, and generating CFO reports, all via command line.
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This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser
Not that long ago I became aware of Justine Tunney's cosmopolitan libc project. It's a toolkit that allows you to compile C source code into a single binary...
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Max Payne – two decades later – Graphics Critique (2021)
It has been two decades since the video game Max Payne was release on July 23, 2001. The game itself was some incredible homage to The Ma...
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RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?
It turns out, you can attach an external GPU to a Raspberry Pi 5. So my natural first question is, can I game on it? Let’s try it out and compare it with some similar computers. Just a quick FTC required note: When you buy through my links, I may earn a commission. For the showdown of crappy gaming computers, we’ll…
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Personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2
The home of Code & Visuals
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“Food JPEGs” in Super Smash Bros. and Kirby Air Riders
Have you ever noticed that the food graphics in Super Smash Bros. and Kirby Air Riders are flat “billboarded” stock images of food? This artistic decision from director Masahiro Sakurai has per...
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Cigarette smoke effect using shaders
Notes about creative coding on the Web.
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Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)
This article is part of a series about Street Fighter II and the CPS-1. It is recommended to read the previous entries before reading this one.
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Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?
Was Daft Punk Having a Laugh When They Chose the Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?
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"Inspector Dangerfuck", ANSI art comic from 1994
In 1994, a teenager wanted to be noticed in the ANSI art scene. So he created "Inspector Dangerfuck": a profane, stoned, gray-skinned cartoon detective.