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How Tim Schafer Broke Into the Game Industry: A Legendary Cover Letter
(Not at my company of course. I would never hire somebody as unqualified as I was! I’m just lucky finding people smarter than me is so easy.) First, lets…
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Properly Molding the Gamer Child
I grew up a serious gamer in a family of people who really, really weren't. I was, while loved, regarded as an oddity. A peculiar mutation. ...
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Preview of WebKit’s WebGL / Canvas 3D
Yesterday, I was updating my local checkout of WebKit and I noticed a few tests for "WebGL" scroll by (view commit). Apparently, a big WebGL…
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Air-powered LEGO V8 engine running at 1440 rpm (vid)
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"Unholy Rage": Eve Online bans 2% of accounts, sees 30% drop in CPU use
Player-created empires, player-driven markets, and endless ways to embark on your personal sci-fi adventure.
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Recreating the THX Deep Note - EarSlap
Procedural music, art, computation and some other things.
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Designing Emergent AI
A lot of people have been curious about how the AI in AI War: Fleet Command works, since we have been able to achieve so much more realisti...
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WebKit: 3D Transforms
WebKit on Mac OS X now has support for CSS 3D transforms, which allow you to position elements on the page in three-dimensional space using CSS.
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Indie games: Still Too Cheap. Getting Cheaper.
I wrote a couple of articles not long ago about how the expected price for Indie games is becoming really cheap. Too cheap to support a th...
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Memoirs of a Poker Bot Developer
Posts about Poker Bot written by Mazur
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Johnny Lee (of wiimote hack fame) was involved in Natal
If you've been wondering why my project blog has been pretty quiet, I can finally say it is because I have been helping Xbox with Project Na...
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How to implement 'realistic' swordfighting in video games.
A few weeks ago, I talked about how the d20 system (You know: Hit points, damage rolls, and health potions) was great for tabletop games but terrible for video gaming. I suggested that developers would do well to come up with a new system for dealing with deadly combat rather than using the d20 system when it doesn’t…
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The 6502 in “The Terminator”
In the first Terminator movie, the audience sees the world from the T-800’s view several times. It is well-known that in two instances, there is 6502 assembly code on the T-800’s HUD, and many sites have analyzed the contents: It’s Apple-II code taken from Nibble Magazine. Here are HD versions of…
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Sid Meier's Rules
The following was published in the January 2009 issue of Game Developer magazine… Most game developers are familiar with Sid’s dictum that “a good game is a series of interesting choice…
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Mini Mario Game as Resignation Letter
How do you break the news to your coworkers that you’re leaving your job at a major game studio to pursue indie development? With a game, of course.
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Flight Control (#1 paid app) iPhone Game Sales Numbers
When we launched Flight Control on 6 March 2009, we made a committment to share our sales numbers with the game development community. At th...
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Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone engine code review
For once, developers were able to read the source code of an id software product just a few days after its release. I spent a week in my spare time reading the internal of the Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone engine. It is by far the cleanest and easiest id source code release to date. This review is far from being…
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