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Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX
Often, when we meet other game developers and say that we use OpenGL for our game Overgrowth, we're met with stares of disbelief -- why…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,925 posts.
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Notch, WebGL, Dart, and ramping up quickly
Just a little something I thought was worth pointing out. @notch , the creator of Minecraft, has been posting updates on his latest toy proj...
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Carlsen wins game 9, only needs 1 draw in 3 remaining games
The Lecturer Training Programme (LTP) is a process that is used by the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission to ensure that those qualifying from it will have the necessary knowledge and skills to teach candidates who wish to become arbiters at FA level and above. The following have progressed to the final stage of the Lecturer…
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Winning at Candy Crush
I find Flash games on Facebook great fun. Not playing them, of course, that’s boring. As you may remember from my previous post, “ winning at Puzzle Adventures ”, I like to take a look into their guts and figure out how they work, and whether or not I can get insane scores with no effort.
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Live editing WebGL shaders with Firefox Developer Tools
If you’ve seen Epic Games’ HTML5 port of ‘Epic Citadel’, you have no doubt been impressed by the amazing performance and level of detail. A lot of the code that ...
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Mozilla, OTOY, Autodesk Work to Deliver High Performance Games and Apps on Web
At Mozilla, we work to move the Web forward as the platform for creating and consuming great experiences. Recently, we’ve focused on making the Web
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How to write a 48-hour game in just 2 years
Stumble upon great links shared by curious readers. Discover worthwhile stories, explore unexpected corners of the web, and find something new. Join free.
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How I made an Android game from scratch in 23 days
Drone Invaders - a space shootem up with retro graphics and modern gameplay
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How to escape a monster (using calculus)
You are sitting in a rowing boat in the middle of a circular lake. How do you escape from a smart monster on the shore who can run four times faster than you can row?
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Go vs C++: Ray tracer (part 3)
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Computational Synesthesia: Audio Analysis with Image Processing Algorithms
The blog post was written in an IPython Notebook. You can download the notebook here .
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Dolphin Emulator and OpenGL drivers - Hall of Fame/Shame
In light of the recent announcements by NVIDIA and AMD in support of Linux for their graphics drivers, we would like to share with the world some of the experience we had developing our open source project, Dolphin, a GameCube and Wii emulator for Windows, Linux, Mac and recently Android....
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Deciphering the Business Card Raytracer
I recently came across Paul Heckbert's business card raytracer. For those that have never heard of it: It is a very famous challenge in the Computer Graphics field that started on May 4th, 1984 via a post on comp.graphics by Paul Heckbert ( More about this in his article " A Minimal Ray Tracer " from the book Graphics…
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World
The animated ASCII globe surrounded by its own source code. An quine in 1024 bytes of JavaScript.
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How I Make A Living Using GameMaker
Insights at the intersection of game development, programming and modern tech.
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What Programming a Game in 48 Hours Taught Me About Programming Games
I participated in Ludum Dare 27 this weekend, programming a complete game, Spacetime Adventure, in 48 hours. I make games for a living but I’d never done that before. It was fun.
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Rotating Images
How to rotate an image, and a need trick to rotate a bitmap an arbitrary amount in a simple paint package.
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