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Disclaimer: This post is a very long collection of thoughts and problems I've had over the years, and also addresses some of the arguments I've been repeatedly told. This post expresses my opinion the has been formed over using Rust for gamedev for many thousands of hours over many years, and multiple finished games…
Generating unlimited diverse training environments for future general agents
When we released Stable Video Diffusion, we highlighted the versatility of our video model across various applications. Building upon this foundation, we are excited to release Stable Video 3D. This new model advances the field of 3D technology, delivering greatly improved quality and multi-view whe
Jungle music was found in countless games from the early 90s. This article goes over what jungle is, where it comes from, and why it was the perfect match for PlayStation & Nintendo 64 games.
Our leading video generation model
The Sheep and the Flower - a demoscene production and real-time animation that looks like a standard short animated movie, in just 8kB
Introducing SIMA, a Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent
Mixbox is a new blending method for natural color mixing. It produces saturated gradients with hue shifts and natural secondary colors during blending. Yellow and blue make green.
Isometric games are extremely popular. Let's learn the theory behind isometric projection and how it is used by gamedevs to write isometric-looking games.
No magic numbers, no tricky tuning: a clean and flexible approach to designing a smooth high-quality reverb, using a variation on the classic feedback-delay network (FDN) structure.
In recent years we have had an ongoing effort to improve graphics performance of the WebKit GTK and WPE ports. As a result of this we shipped features like threaded rendering, the DMA-BUF renderer, or proper vertical retrace synchronization (VSync). While these improvements have helped keep WebKit competitive, and…
We are excited to introduce Stable Fast 3D, Stability AI’s latest breakthrough in 3D asset generation technology. This innovative model transforms a single input image into a detailed 3D asset, setting a new standard for speed and quality in the field of 3D reconstruction.
Anyone who still has a working Spectrum ZX will then be able to test the game.
To celebrate ChipWits' 40th Anniversary, the original FORTH source code has been open sourced! Learn about the game's history and source code
Support WebGPU on Android, use of DXC for shader compilation, timestamp queries in compute and render passes, default entry points to shader modules, support display-p3 as GPUExternalTexture color space, memory heaps info, and more.
Novel view reconstructions for (right) our method and (left) conventional 3D Gaussian Splatting with random initializations. Our method, even with random initialization, faithfully reconstructs the scene (e.g.. buildings at the back and the ground texture) providing much higher quality renderings.
Our pioneering speech generation technologies are helping people around the world interact with more natural, conversational and intuitive digital assistants and AI tools.
It is with excitement that I unveil to the world ... The Bevy Foundation is the next step in our journey to build a world class free and open source …
Every now and again you come across something that stretches your brain in a new direction. Last week I stumbled on a magic trick of a Choose Your Own Adventure: Al Leonardi’s Ace of Aces, a paper …
After more than a year of public and internal discussions, we're ready to announce our new name!
Learn about new AI and rendering features discussed at the latest GPU for the Web working group meeting.
I’m excited to share swift-playdate-examples, a technical demonstration of using Swift to build games for Playdate, a handheld game system by Panic.
A 34x34x34 cube has become the highest-order NxNxN Rubik's Cube, announced Matt Bahner in a YouTube video. Soon, he will publish a full documentary about how he made it.
Hello, Today we want to share some exciting news!
This is a long-due update on porting Godot to the iPad. Shortly after my last blog post covering the development work on May 29th, Apple held its WWDC 2024 conference. I went into the conference with gusto, expecting to fully embrace all the iOS 18 APIs. I already knew
Veloren 0.16 Release
