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Recreating Real-World Terrain with React, Three.js and WebGL Shaders
You might know about Microsoft's Flight Simulator release in August last year and like me, if you're interested in flight simulators or photorealistic…
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The most popular blog posts about games & graphics on Hacker News. 2,924 posts.
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Animate Anyone 2: High-Fidelity Character Image Animation
Animate Anyone 2: High-Fidelity Character Image Animation with Environment Affordance
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Pixel Art Tips for Programmers
Programmers are known to not have a strong suit for art related disciplines, pixel art is no exception.
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Twenty years later I wrote a Tetris again
One night in May of 1996 I was bored and wanted to play Tetris very badly... At the time I was an exchange student. I owned a broken laptop which wasn't of much use but I also had access to my host family's 486 desktop computer that came with MsDOS
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Street Fighter II, Spin when you can't
This article is part of a series about Street Fighter II and the CPS-1. It is recommended to read the previous entries before reading this one.
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Most gamers prefer single-player games
It’s no secret that the bulk of AAA games market revenues come from in-game purchases , mostlyfrom live-service games. It’s also impossible to ignore that the live-service market is fiercely competitive.
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DoS attacks against my online game
DDraceNetwork is an open source online game I’ve been running since 2013 with a community of volunteers. The game is available for free, I’m hosting servers for it in many countries around the world so that we have trusted official ranks . The servers are paid for by donations , which I stop collecting once the cost…
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Yes, you can play Duck Hunt without a television (but I can't)
Duck Hunt is considered a classic of the Nintendo Entertainment System. But surprisingly, the concept of hunting ducks did not originate in 1984– people have...
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Using Deno as my game engine
Software, games, and the occasional startup.
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C++ for Games: Performance, Allocations and Data Locality
Abstract: Allocations and related lack of spatial locality can be DAMN EXPENSIVE Quote: During the times of Ancient Gamers (also known as times of Atari, ZX ...
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Path Tracing 3D Fractals
In some ways path tracing is one of the simplest and most intuitive ways to do ray tracing.
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OpenGL: Mesh shaders in the current year
It Happened.
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Happy 23rd Birthday, DOOM
It's that time of year again, where we say Happy Birthday to one of my most favorite games, DOOM! Every year I try to reveal something about the game's development that hasn't been documented to death. Believe me, DOOM has been documented more than most games. But never fear, I have so much stuff th
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An unwinnable seed of Slay the Spire
Overview In this post, I will describe a collaborative effort that proved that unwinnable Slay the Spire seeds exist. This project is joint work with gamerpuppy and ForgottenArbiter and is based on the several attempts that have been made to prove unwinnability for seeds in Slay the Spire.
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Vulkan Progress Report #5
Another month, another Vulkan progress report! October was a busy month, as most of it was split between working on the new Global Illumination system and Godotcon/GIC in Poland.
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What Is Textmode?
An illustrated description of what Textmode Art is and how to get started.
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First Is the Worst: Nintendo's Color TV Game 6 and 15
If you told Yamauchi Fusajiro that the little playing card business he had just started would one day sell video game consoles, he would have no idea what yo...