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We had a look at some of the basics of making a game using the Processing.js game library, so let's kick it up a notch by just getting down and making our own Super Mario game. When we're done with this part of the tutorial, we'll have a game with koopa troopers, platforms that we can jump up through but not fall down…
Over the past two years, I have spent a lot of time working on my Game Boy emulator, GameRoy. It has reached a good point, where it has a GUI interface (including a debugger and disassembler) and passes numerous tests (comparable to some of the most accurate emulators). I even made a port to Android!
How I got many of my childhood games running again after fighting with old Copy-Protection mechanisms
INT. WAREHOUSE - NIGHT Following my recent rants about computer generated effects ( here and here ), I thought it would be fun to look i...
It's been a while since I've done a graphicky post, so here's a new one for the chilly weather. Over on the doomed platform of magnificen...
Although we were very happy with the win at Revision, we were not entirely happy with 8088 MPH as a whole. Because of the time pressure, there were some things we could not finish as well as we wan…
In this post I’m going to cover a neat technique for rendering regions of fog with varying density. I’ll start by covering some of the basic principles behind fog rendering and a few co…
Blog of Raph Levien.
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
The first part of this column, in which I gave the full sales figures for one of my games, Geneforge 4: Rebellion , attracted a fair amount...
Amaranthar in the comment thread on the last post referred to “rares” in Ultima Online as a feature. They weren’t really, though. They were a bug .
Fictional short story about Clippy & AI hard takeoff scenarios grounded in contemporary ML scaling, self-supervised learning, reinforcement learning, and meta-learning research literature.
The following was published in the January 2009 issue of Game Developer magazine… Most game developers are familiar with Sid’s dictum that “a good game is a series of interesting choice…
an interactive guide to human networks
Posts about Poker Bot written by Mazur
A few weeks ago, I talked about how the d20 system (You know: Hit points, damage rolls, and health potions) was great for tabletop games but terrible for video gaming. I suggested that developers would do well to come up with a new system for dealing with deadly combat rather than using the d20 system when it doesn’t…
