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Using any C++ library in Godot
How Godot's GDExtension system and the godot-cpp bindings work, and how to use Conan to bring C and C++ libraries into a Godot game, with a flecs example that simulates 100,000 particles.
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The most popular blog posts about games & graphics on Hacker News. 878 posts.
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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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Joan Fons hired to work on Godot's rendering
Hello! This is Joan speaking. I'm happy to announce that, starting today, I will be working as a full-time Godot developer, and my main focus will be anything rendering related.
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The water technology behind Avatar: The Way of Water
Learn more about the CGI technology created using Unity Wētā Tools to produce the water in Avatar: The Way of Water.
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A History of the Amen Break: From the Winstons to Futurama and Om Unit
How did a six second drum sample go on to inspire entire sub-genres of music? Let's examine the history of the Amen Break.
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Factorio 2.1 Experimental Release
Hello, we hope your week has been pleasant.
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Nitrome to convert its Flash game library to HTML5
Hi Nitromians, It has been a long time since we last posted on the blog so there is a lot to get through so settle in! Today�s big news is that we can finally tell you what we are doing to keep our flash games alive past the end of this year when flash will be removed from popular browsers.
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Bevy 0.5: data oriented game engine built in Rust
Thanks to 88 contributors, 283 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the Bevy 0.5 release on crates.io! For those who don't …
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Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg
In this blog we explore how FFmpeg uses Vulkan Compute to seamlessly accelerate encoding and decoding of even professional-grade video on consumer GPUs — unlocking GPU compute parallelism at scale, without specialized hardware. This approach complements Vulkan Video's fixed-function codec support, extending…
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OpenXcom 1.0
More platforms coming soon. For those making the ports, don’t forget to include the extra translations with your release. There’s also a Source Tarball available with it all included .
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Raspberry Pi 5 now supports Valve's Steam Link
Valve's Steam Link now runs on Raspberry Pi 5 – excellent news for PC game fans who don't want to a lug a PC everywhere.
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Top Blender developers of 2016
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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Making a trading Gameboy: A pocket exchange and algo trading platform
An exchange and algo trading station in your pocket!
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Dolphin Progress September, October, and November 2022
As we hit the holiday season, our Progress Report might be considered a bit late. A two month report became a three month report as we realized just how much work we had to catch up on. While the usual summer burst of activity didn't come, it seems instead everyone poured their time in throughout the autumn months!…
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Riot Games: Peeking into Valorant's Netcode (2020)
We’re Matt deWet, gameplay tech lead on VALORANT , and David Straily, project tech lead on VALORANT - and we're beyond excited to be here with you all to share some of the technical details behind how we’re addressing som…
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Godot 4 Release Candidate 1
The wait is almost over! With Godot 4.0 coming close to stable, we finalize our efforts to fix the remaining critical issues and add the last coat of polish with the first Release Candidate.
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The Rapier Physics Engine
In our announcement last week, we briefly mentioned this new physics engine we have been working on during the past 5 months.
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From BSP to ESP – How S3ctor Abused Quake Editors to Redefine the Morrowind Mod
S3ctor is a core developer of OpenMW, and has, like most of us to be fair, odd interests. This is the incredible story how he mixed two immensely cool things: Quake, and Morrowind, narrated by our …
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Khronos Releases AV1 Decode in Vulkan Video with SDK Support for H.264/H.265
The Vulkan Working Group at Khronos has developed a set of video format decode and encode extensions, collectively referred to as Vulkan Video. Today, with the release of Vulkan 1.3.277, the Working Group is proud to announce the new Decode AV1 video extension. Similar to the Vulkan project in its goals, AV1 is a…
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First 3D Commercial Web Game Powered By asm.js
Play Monster Madness to see how it leverages asm.js, a supercharged subset of JavaScript and Web Port of Unreal Engine 3 for a slick, plugin-free multiplay
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The first 10k games at bgammon.org, an open source online backgammon service
An overview of the journey so far.
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Vulkan 1.2
The Khronos Group announces the release of the Vulkan 1.2…
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Porting Doom to the Fastly edge serverless platform
id Software’s DOOM has become one of the most-ported games in history. It felt like a perfect project to port to Compute, built on our serverless compute environment, to experiment with different applications of the product.
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Asm.js performance improvements in the latest version of Firefox
The latest version of Firefox which launched last week includes a major update to the user interface as well as to features like Sync. Another area in which this release ...
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