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Impact HTML5 Game Engine released
My HTML5 Game Engine Impact is now ready. It took some time, but I think it was worth it. I'm proud of what I have achieved and I hope you'll like it too.
Our first week in the Chrome Webstore: the numbers
Lost Decade Games
Google AI Challenge Winner Post-Mortem
The lead in the last month or so was an indicator of having good chances, but there was a huge shuffling of ranks in the last week and some last minute casualties.
How Ultima Online rares were born
Amaranthar in the comment thread on the last post referred to “rares” in Ultima Online as a feature. They weren’t really, though. They were a bug .
Xc.js - a Javascript framework for 2d games. Backends for HTML5 canvas and iOS
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Matt Cutts: $1,000 to the 2 best implementations of the recently-hacked Kinect
I’m starting a contest for people that do cool things with a Kinect. See the details below. Before I joined Google, I was a grad student interested in topics like computer vision, motion self…
Using genetic algorithms to find Starcraft 2 build orders
UPDATE: Just to make this explicitly clear: I did not write this program. The fourth sentence makes this fairly clear, but some comments indicate that some people are a bit lazy :). I also added a video of the rush to the bottom.
Impact JavaScript Game Engine for iOS
I know you're waiting for the release of the Impact Game Engine , and I promise you, it's coming. I just get distracted too easily. So here's my game Biolab Disaster running on the iPhone 3GS with 60 frames per second:
Tuning Canabalt (explaining all the basic systems)
Canabalt's designer published the dimensions, speeds, jump rules and building sizes that made the game feel fair. Every number, explained.
Challenge: Make a game, sell 1 copy by Oct 31st
Our apologies! We’ve made the difficult decision to take the ludumdare.com/compo website down.
How the opening scenes of Blade Runner were made (video)
Douglas Trumbull, professor of English & adjunct professor of theatre and religious studies.
Duke Nukem Forever.. is back on.
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Building a Scrabble MMO in 48 hours
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