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MilkyTracker 1.04
Today is a special day, because we’re announcing the latest release of MilkyTracker - version 1.04.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,925 posts.
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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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Animated GIFs the Hard Way
When doing the new website for the Sublime Text 2.0 launch, instead of just screenshots, I wanted to have animations to demonstrate some of its features. One of the criteria was that the animations should work everywhere, from IE6 to an iPad. This ruled out two common video options, Flash and the <video> element…
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What would a EvE online Internet look like?
EvE online is a fascinating game. It’s one of the few MMO’s that only have a single “server” to log into, meaning everyone is playing on the same logical world. It’s also had a fascinating set of events that have happened inside it, and also remains a very visually appealing game for what it is:
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Mach v0.1: Cross-platform Zig graphics
Five months ago we announced some of our vision for Mach & the future of graphics with Zig. Today we've reached Mach v0.1 with over 1,100 commits.
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1982: The Hobbit
Veronika Megler just wanted a part-time job while she finished her college degree. She didn't realize it would end with her writing one of the first computer game blockbusters.
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I can no longer compile my first Flash game
A tale about game development and techonlogy obsolescence
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The tech arms race in AAA games and why I'm abandoning it
A blog about video game development
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Notes on rarely-seen game mechanics
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Portals and Quake
Ever wanted to know how exactly did Quake’s precomputed visibility work? I did, so I wrote vis.py , a reimplementation of their algorithm in Python. This guide has all the information you need to understand vis , the tool used by Quake, Half-Life and Source Engine games.
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A platform-jumping prince – History of Prince of Persia's 1990s Ports
Blog posts and articles by author and game developer Jordan Mechner
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SuperSight: A graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's "Stunts"
Clickbait disclaimer: Stunts was actually created by Distinctive Software; Brøderbund was only the publisher. But nobody heard about Distinctive , and I wanted to be sure this article does not get confused with the one about Disney's Stunt Island . Sorry about that.
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A Small Look into the GameCube’s Copy Filter
A while back I was going through Dolphin’s issues page out of sheer boredom. I eventually came across issue 726 – Gamma setting has no effect. Out of curiosity, I clicked.
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Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)
Please, feel free to gather better data yourself and prove me wrong. If you do so I'll link to it!
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Blue Prince is a roguelike puzzle masterpiece
Craft a mansion and uncover mysteries in this exceptional marriage of storytelling and roguelike mechanics.
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Rainway takes a game running on one system and streams it to another device
BUILDING FOR HUMANITY
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Real pixel coding (2011)
Tutorials and articles of Inigo Quilez on computer graphics, fractals, math, art, demoscene, shaders and more.
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Exact Polygonal Filtering: Using Green's Theorem and Clipping for Anti-Aliasing
Efficient filtering of polygonal shapes with closed-form solutions based on Green’s theorem with piecewise-polynomial filters (e.g. box/bilinear/bicubic).
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A new Sudoku layout with 81 uniquely shaped cells
My journey making a Sudoku variant that doesn’t have rows or columns
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New technical analysis confirms the evidence against Billy Mitchell
Hot off the heels of the new Billy Mitchell testimony published on Friday, perfectpacman.com is proud to publish a new 48-page technical analysis by hardware engineer and Donkey Kong expert Tanner Fokkens. Fokkens is a moderator and longtime member of Donkey Kong Forum, and co-founder of Snektronix Incorporated…
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Twenty Years of FM Synthesis Inside Ableton Live
In 2004 I created Ableton's first software synthesiser - Operator. On the occasion of its twentieth birthday, this page provides background, a few tips and a download link to a pack with presets I and a few Ableton colleagues created for this occasion.
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Why I’ll never create modules for VCV Rack anymore–and what I’ll make instead
An old article, now removed due to being an old time capsule.
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Cataphract: Medieval-fantasy roleplaying wargame, in the Black-Sea C. 1300
Cataphracts commanders: there is no actionable intelligence in this post. Read on. About two months ago, I reread several series on military