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Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D (2020)
Software Engineer at Figma. Previously at Dropbox. Studied Math/CS at Brown University.
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The most popular blog posts about games & graphics on Hacker News. 2,924 posts.
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Space Age release date
Hello, Today we want to share some exciting news!
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Rewriting wipEout
The source code for the classic PSX launch title wipEout was leaked in 2022. A few month ago I finally sat down to take a look at it. The result is a (nearly) complete rewrite that compiles to Windows, Linux, macOS and WASM.
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Bevy 0.7: data oriented game engine built in Rust
Thanks to 123 contributors, 349 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the Bevy 0.7 release on crates.io! For those who don't…
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Learning to Cooperate, Compete, and Communicate
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Procedural City Generation
Since seeing the city generation from the shelved Introversion Software game “Subversion” in action , I’ve wanted to to try writing a basic procedural city generator myself. The developers followed a method described in Parish and Müller’s paper: Procedural Modelling of Cities (2001) . The paper is well-written and…
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Video Gaming Will Take Over
It’s replicating the most lucrative entertainment businesses on earth… and then adding a lot more.
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So you want to compete with Roblox
My inbox is stuffed with pitches from start-ups wanting to compete with Roblox, that plucky Lego-ish multiplayer game-creation platform currently valued at 41 billion dollars. They shouldn't try, but here's how to maybe not fail if they insist anyways.
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Heroes of Might and Magic V – Hammers of Bait and Switch
This documents my process of finding a fix for the “Original game not found” problem when installing Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate from Ubisoft. For the actual fix, pleas…
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Unity to acquire Parsec for $320M
Parsecs technology allows creators to work together remotely and leverage high performance processing from anywhere Unity (NYSE: U), the worlds leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the high performance remote desktop…
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Re-implementing an old DOS game in C++ 17 (2019)
Back in 2016, I started a side project to reverse engineer the game Duke Nukem II and build an open source reimplementation of its engine from scratch – called Rigel Engine (Check it out on GitHub)…
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Segmenting comic book frames
This post is based on my project in my Computer Vision class last semester
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Proposal For An Interactive Introduction to Graphics Programming
This is a proposal and proof-of-concept for an interactive book about programming the graphics processor.
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BioShock Infinite Lighting
Programmers don't generally have reels, but we do have blogs. I've been explaining the rendering work I did on BioShock Infinite quite a b...
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I made an NES emulator – What I learned about the original Nintendo
Interesting technical tidbits about the NES…
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Wil Shipley: My “Doom” 20th Anniversary Stories
The way I got into the software business (besides learning to code) was to use every piece of software I could find and send the developers ...
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Regarding Last Weekend’s Hearthstone Grandmasters Tournament
An update on the Hearthstone Grandmasters APAC competitive ruling.
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MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules
In 2016, we introduced AlphaGo, the first artificial intelligence (AI) program to defeat humans at the ancient game of Go. Two years later, its successor - AlphaZero - learned from scratch to master Go, chess and shogi. Now, in a paper in the journal Nature, we describe MuZero, a significant step forward in the…
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Overview of Running an Online Game for 3 Years
It’s been roughly 3 years since DDraceNetwork (DDNet) started in the summer of 2013. Last year I wrote a non-technical History of DDNet . Today in this post we will dive into the technical side of what makes DDNet run.
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PICO-8 lighting, part 1: thin dark line
How I rolled up my sleeves and got a real-time lighting engine working under the constraints of PICO-8.
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Every Graphics at Once: Nintendo's Popeye
I’ve made some modern games in retro style, and one thing people will always tell you is, make sure your pixels are the same size. When your base resolution ...
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This is What Irony Tastes Like: Capcom and the PSN Outage
So Capcom senior VP Christian “Sven” Svensson mentioned that Capcom is losing money because the Playstation Network is down . This is especially hard on Capcom, because the phone-home DRM Capcom uses has locked all of their Playstation customers out of their games.
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NES Graphics – Part 3
Part 1 and part 2 described CHR data, nametable based backgrounds, sprites, and scrolling. Combined, these cover nearly everything a basic NES cart can do without using additional hardware. To go any further will require a quick tangent to discuss, in detail, how rendering happens.
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Blender Cycles Turbocharged: how we made rendering 10x faster
Blender Studio is a web service that provides access the training videos and all the data from the Blender open projects.
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Introducing Oculus Go, Plus Santa Cruz Updates
Today we shared two significant milestones in one of our largest areas of development. Standalone is new category designed to bring more freedom and accessibility to VR. Without a cable or the need for a mobile phone, standalone headsets represent a totally new phase of VR hardware.
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Infinite Mac: BeOS
tl;dr: You can now run many BeOS versions in the browser at Infinite Mac , my site where you can experience the Macintosh Cinematic Universe from 1984 to 2005. The installs are full peers to their Mac cousins: you can boot them instantly (large disks are streamed in), play around with pre-installed software from…
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What made World of Warcraft's environments so compelling?
Texts on this and that.
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