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That Time I Recreated Photoshop in C++
As I’m getting older I look back on all the things I’ve done as a creative developer, and I see so many cool projects! But I never wrote down any development
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The most popular blog posts about games & graphics on Hacker News. 254 posts.
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OpenMW 0.50.0 Released – open-source Morrowind reimplementation
The OpenMW team is proud to announce the release of version 0.50.0 of our open-source engine! Grab it from our Downloads Page for all supported operating systems. This round number release overhaul…
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DeepMind releases Lyria 2 music generation model
Google has long collaborated with musicians, producers, and artists in the research and development of music AI tools. Ever since launching the Magenta project, in 2016, we’ve been exploring how AI can enhance creativity — sparking inspiration, facilitating exploration and enabling new forms of expression, always…
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Why old games never die, but new ones do
It’s well known that video games today are disposable pieces of slop. Modern multiplayer games tend to fall into one of two categories: they’re abandoned after a while and the servers a…
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Recreating Daft Punk's Something About Us
An in-depth, personal journey recreating Daft Punk’s “Something About Us” in Ableton Live 12 — track by track. From synths to talkbox guitars, a nostalgic dive into French Touch culture, sound design, and the joys of music production.
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Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games
Steam Deck creator Pierre-Loup Griffais explains that Valve is funding ARM compatibility layers for future ultraportables.
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Quake Engine Indicators
I was working on a bug in Chocolate Quake netcode. The issue was an edge case where starting two clients on the same machine resulted in the second one zombifying the first one. When the bug occurred there was no disconnection but the client could no longer move. Instead the screen would show an "indicator" looking…
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Railroad Tycoon II
Like a lot of boys, I grew up loving trains. And like a lot of men, I retain my fascination for them today.
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Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike
Introducing CS Bench: we ask all top models to build a multiplayer Counter-Strike from scratch.
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The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 1: The Acquisition
At the beginning of 1996, Sierra On-Line was still basking in the success of the previous summer’s Phantasmagoria , the best-selling game it had ever published. With revenues of $158.1 million and profits of $16 million in 1995, the company was bigger and richer than it had ever been. In light of all this, absolutely…
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Sega Channel: VGHF Recovers over 100 Sega Channel ROMs (and More)
Our project to preserve the history of Sega Channel — including over 100 new Sega Channel ROMs.
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EverQuest
It isn’t always or even usually the pioneers who reap the rewards of the trails they blaze. As often as not, some pragmatic Johnny-come-lately pops in to make off with the booty.
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The PS2’s backwards compatibility from the engineer who built it (2020)
As the PS2 turns 20 in Japan, a look back on its PS1 backwards compatibility from the eyes of the former Sony engineer responsible for it.
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Unity's Mono problem: C# code runs slower than it should
Execution of C# code in Unity's Mono runtime is slow by today's standards, much slower than you might expect! Our game runs 2-3x faster on modern .NET compared to Unity's Mono, and in a few small benchmarks I measured speedups of up to 15x. I've spent some time investigating what's going on and in this article I will…
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Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)
How to build realtime blurs on the GPU and how the best blur algorithm works - "Dual Kawase"
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Infinite Mac OS X
tl;dr: Infinite Mac can now run early Mac OS X , with 10.1 and 10.3 being the best supported versions. It’s not particularly snappy, but as someone who lived through that period, I can tell you that it wasn’t much better on real hardware. Infinite HD has also been rebuilt to have some notable indie software from that…
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Generating an infinite world with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm
Generating an infinite world with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm - Personal blog about game development, programming and making
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My Deus Ex lipsyncing fix mod
Back in 2021 I made a mod for Deus Ex 1 that fixes the lipsyncing and blinking, which, I betcha didn’t know, was broken since ship. Everything I wrote about it is on Twitter, and it oughta be somewhere else, so here’s a post about it. The mod itself can be downloaded here .
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By the Power of Grayscale
A brief introduction into computer vision and image processing using Grayskull library.
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I turned the Lego Game Boy into a working Game Boy
Sharing my thoughts and current projects.
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30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness
I want to wish everyone happy Yule festivities! Midwinter in the northern hemisphere has passed, the days are now slowly becoming longer.
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Uncovering the mechanics of The Games: Winter Challenge
An investigation into The Games; Winter Challenge
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Donkey Kong Country 2 and Open Bus
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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What is a color space?
In which we answer every question you've ever had about digital color, and some you haven't.
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Translating a Fortran F-16 Simulator to Unity3D
I recently purchased the textbook “Aircraft Control and Simulation” by Brian L. Stevens, Frank L. Lewis, and Eric N. Johnson 1 . This book covers the control and simulation of aircraft. It’s really dense and frankly hard to understand. As far as aerodynamics texts go, it’s pretty typical.
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How to Synthesize a House Loop
Code music in the browser.
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Building a DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL
CedarDB is a database system that delivers unmatched performance for transactions and analytics, from small writes to handling billions of rows. Built on cutting-edge research to power today’s tools and tomorrow’s challenges.