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Making of “Introduction to A*”
(Warning: these notes are rough – the main page is here and these are some notes I wrote for a few colleagues and then I kept adding to it until it became a longer page)
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,925 posts.
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Building a F1 race simulator
One of the most fascinating aspects of modern Formula 1 is the use of computer simulations to predict car performances and race strategies. By the early 1990s, teams like Benetton had begun to deve…
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My Isometric Voxel Engine: One Year Later
Click here for the Kickstarter campaign. (wink wink)
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Cheap Beer and the Psychology of PlayStation Now Pricing
Sony just launched its PlayStation Now service that lets you rent access to streaming games. The pricing seems a bit odd to some, but it actually uses some well established psychological tricks to …
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The Cargo Cult of Game Mechanics
On the existential crisis in gaming and the role of game design.
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OpenGL in 2014
Valve is investing in OpenGL to hedge themselves against Microsoft. Some well-known developers have written about the deficiencies in the API. A few competing, proprietary APIs have popped up. In an effort to remain competitive, Khronos announces glnext: a ground-up rethinking of the OpenGL and OpenGL ES APIs. This…
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Oculus Connect 2014
We’re thrilled to welcome nearly 1,000 developers from around the world to Oculus Connect, our first developer conference. If you’re not at...
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Flip – A ReactJS Game
Building upon my experience with the ReactJS Slide Puzzle, I thought I'd take the concept of a React-based game one step further. Flip is not very practical, and uses a lot of potentially buggy CSS3 and ES5 methods, but I mean, it's just a game. Besides, it shows some of
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Microsoft buys Minecraft for 2.5B
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
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I’m tired. So I’m selling my game that just went viral
Hacker Experience is an online hacking simulation game. Read more about it here.
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Notes on XKCD's “Pixels”
Max Goodhart's personal journal and sketchbook.
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Hacking Hearthstone with machine learning – Defcon talk wrap-up
A wrap-up of my Defcon talk about hacking Hearthstone with machine learning including slides and a video.
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How to walk through walls using the 4th dimension [video]
An explanation of how walking through walls would actually look like if you could move in 4D.
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XKCD “Time” Wins Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story
The 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, Loncon 3, has announced the 2014 Hugo Award winners. 3587 valid ballots were received and counted in the final ballot. BEST NOVEL Ancillary Justice, by An…
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An Unreal Decision
Discover the journey of switching game engines from Unity to Unreal Engine 4 for the development of Republic Sniper. Learn about the challenges, benefits, and insights gained from this transition, along with progress updates and insights into UE4's features.
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An FPGA sprite graphics accelerator
A very warm welcome to my most ambitious project to date. In this project I’m going to attempt to design and build a sprite-based graphics accelerator that will function as a co-processor to an MCU. Using cheap off-the-shelf components I’m hoping to achieve a level of gaming performance that compares well to popular…
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A Diablo 3 Story
TLDR: I made about 100 000 euro from Diablo 3 in exactly 1 year. Below I will tell you in great detail how. I want to dedicate thi...
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Key Advances in the OpenGL Ecosystem
The Khronos™ Group, an open consortium of leading hardware and…
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Designing game narrative
Imagine one day you are struck with a flash of inspiration: freshly seared onto your mind is a story, one that is undoubtedly the greatest tale ever conceived by Man. It has all the elements of a great narrative: a gripping plot, nuanced characters, and an evocative setting.
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Proposal For An Interactive Introduction to Graphics Programming
This is a proposal and proof-of-concept for an interactive book about programming the graphics processor.