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Letter to John Carmack
The following is an email I sent to John Carmack of Id Software after I had watched his Quakecon 2012 Keynote Speech
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The most popular blog posts about games & graphics on Hacker News. 48 posts.
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Ingress
It’s a new thing on the Internet, a planetary-scale augmented-reality game being played on a real planet: ours. It’s fun to play, particularly if you have kids. And interesting, I think, for anyone who cares about issues of Life Online, even non-gamers.
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Avoiding game crashes related to linked lists
Linked lists look harmless until they start detonating your game at runtime. This is the bug pattern far too many programmers miss.
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Quake 3 Source Code Review
Since I had one week before my next contract I decided to finish my "cycle of id". After Doom , Doom Iphone , Quake1 , Quake2 , Wolfenstein iPhone and Doom3 I decided to read the last codebase I did not review yet: idTech3 the 3D engine that powers Quake III and Quake Live . The engine is mostly an evolution of…
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An Ancient Piece of Computer Lore in a Place You’d Never Expect
Back in March of 2012 I was watching Duplicity and I noticed something odd about 28 minutes in:
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An introduction to modern OpenGL
Table of Contents | Chapter 2 » OpenGL has been around a long time, and from reading all the accumulated layers of documentation out there on the Internet, it's not always clear what parts are h…
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Depth of field blur: the Swiss army knife that improved the framerate
Depth of field blur is an effect that is used in many modern games as a cool graphics effect. A nice example of this is of course my own gam...
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Codemasters are on the scrounge
This was a joke at the time... we should have seen it coming. I'm beginning to see Codemasters in a very different and negative light ...
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Evolving an image out of polygons
Shareware games, New Zealand Game Developers Screaming Duck Software are the makers of the puzzle games Fitznik, Fitznik 2 and Drippy
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Parallelogram
Parallelogram is a demo running on the Commodore One extender board, which contains an Altera Cyclone III FPGA and an SDRAM chip. The logic design was made from scratch, including a homebrew CPU, FM synth and blitter with pixel shader support. The demo won the wild compo at Revision 2012 .
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Old School Color Cycling with HTML5
Anyone remember Color cycling from the 90s? This was a technology often used in 8-bit video games of the era, to achieve interesting visual effects by cycling (shifting) the color palette. Back then video cards could only render 256 colors at a time,...
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Component · Decoupling Patterns
Allow a single entity to span multiple domains without coupling the domains to each other.