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The most popular blog posts about games & graphics on Hacker News. 57 posts.
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Key Change
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it launched in 1999.
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NetHack 3.6.2
3.6.2 is a general patch release. It includes a large number of fixes to the 3.6.1 version, beyond the Windows issue fixed at the time of that release.
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Godot Engine – Announcing the Godot 2019 Showreel
Another year, another showreel. As every year, the amount of quality games being created by Godot has increased significantly (as did the amount of submissions).
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Mozilla Announces Deal to Bring Firefox Reality to HTC VIVE Devices
Last year, Mozilla set out to build a best-in-class browser that was made specifically for immersive browsing. The result was Firefox Reality, a browser de
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Vulkan Progress Report #5
Another month, another Vulkan progress report! October was a busy month, as most of it was split between working on the new Global Illumination system and Godotcon/GIC in Poland.
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ScummVM 2.1.0
"Animal sales was a profitable and prestigious business, since most real animals had died out after the Terran War; there were plenty of electric ones, though—" Oh, ahem, didn’t notice you there. ScummVM Team is thrilled to announce the release …
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Three people play a Tetris-like game using a brain-to-brain interface
UW researchers created a method for two people help a third person solve a task using only their minds.
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Vibration-minimizing motion retargeting for robotic characters
Creating animations for robotic characters is very challenging due to the constraints imposed by their physical nature. In particular, the combination of fast motions and unavoidable structural deformations leads to mechanical oscillations that negatively affect their performances. Our goal is to automatically…
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Dolphin Progress May 2019
The past few months have been quite hectic with a slew of gigantic changes requiring lengthy articles alongside them. These big features all hitting together seems to have brought up a talking point in the community would be irresponsible to ignore. Everyone wants to know when Dolphin 6.0 is coming. After all, Dolphin…
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Godot 3.2 beta 1
After three well-tested and quite stable alpha builds, we're now ready to enter the beta stage for the upcoming Godot 3.2 release. The beta stage corresponds for us to a release freeze, which means that we will only consider critical bug fixes for merging in the master branch, and that until Godot 3.2 is released.
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Google Research Football: A Novel Reinforcement Learning Environment
Posted by Karol Kurach, Research Lead and Olivier Bachem, Research Scientist, Google Research, Zürich The goal of reinforcement learning (RL) is ...
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Recreating the Death Star Trench Run Scene with Lego
South Korean LEGO Certified Professional Wani Kim, with the help of Olive Seon, has created an incredible replica of the Death Star Trench Run scene from
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Level Design and Shaping a Roguelike Experience
A complete rundown of the entire process behind designing and building a new map for the world of Cogmind, and explaining how it integrates with gameplay.
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Building AI that can master complex cooperative games with hidden information
To advance research on AI that can understand others’ points of view and collaborate effectively, Facebook AI has developed a bot that sets a new state of the art in Hanabi, a card game in which all players work together.
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Dolphin Progress Report for June and July
As seems to be happening annually, due to a short summer lull, we decided to combine the June and July Progress Reports. As you may have noticed, we're a few days into August at this point and things ended up running a bit late. That's actually a consequence of how we do these Progress Reports - we sometimes will go…
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MakeCode Arcade: Retro Gaming, Modern Programming
<img class="ui image" src="/static/blog/arcade/hero.png" alt="MakeCode Arcade hero banner" loading="lazy">
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Neural MMO – A Multiagent Game Environment
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Ogre 1.12.3
Ogre 1.12.3 was just released. Typically we do not write a specific announcement for minor updates, however this one contains some major new features that warrant this one. Of course there is the u…
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Ray tracing with uLisp
This is a simple ray tracer written in uLisp, using the uLisp graphics extensions to plot on a colour TFT display. The scene contains five spheres and a plane and can be run on any of the following boards that include an integral TFT display:
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