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Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds
A Circle K, a family crime ring, and $400,000 worth of missing Playdates.
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The most popular blog posts about games & graphics on Hacker News. 265 posts.
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Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera Data Set for Academic Use
Access Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera OpenUSD Data Set
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Gamedev in Lisp. Part 1: ECS and Metalinguistic Abstraction
In this series of tutorials, we will delve into creating simple 2D games in Common Lisp. The result of the first part will be a development environment setup and a basic simulation displaying a 2D sce...
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How Doom didn't kill the Amiga
A scene from the Amiga game Defender of the Crown, released in 1986. For years, no other home computer came close to screens like these.
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Smoother sailing: Studying audio imperfections in Steamboat Willie
A deep dive into investigating and reducing the flutter distortion on the soundtrack of Steamboat Willie (1928).
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1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived
In July 2023 I was reminiscing about a thing of the past, large-scale public LAN parties. I remember them being a semiregular occurrence around Tasmania, only attending a couple in my young age before they disappeared. I wondered if I could find some photos of these events to help the memories come back clearer. After…
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DirectX Adopting SPIR-V as the Interchange Format of the Future
Today the Direct3D and HLSL teams are excited to share some insight into the next big step for GPU programmability. Once Shader Model 7 is released,
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The long-lost Tarzan Atari game, preserved
After 40 years, the Atari 2600 masterpiece Tarzan has been unearthed.
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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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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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Vulkan Foliage rendering using GPU Instancing
Abdelhadi' blog
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GPU compute in the browser at the speed of native: WebGPU marching cubes
WebGPU is a powerful GPU-API for the web, providing support for advanced low-overhead rendering pipelines and GPU compute pipelines. WebGPU’s support for GPU compute shaders and storage buffers are a key distinction from WebGL, which lacks these features, and make it possible to bring powerful GPU-parallel…
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Win your fantasy league using operations research
I’ve never been good at playing football 1 . I started playing again last year and I have scored more own goals than goals for my team. Also, I support the RCD Espanyol 2 , which has spent last season in the second division and has miraculously ascended to the first division last week. And to be honest, I only watch…
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Raspberry Pi 5 now supports Valve's Steam Link
Valve's Steam Link now runs on Raspberry Pi 5 – excellent news for PC game fans who don't want to a lug a PC everywhere.
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Making a trading Gameboy: A pocket exchange and algo trading platform
An exchange and algo trading station in your pocket!
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Riot Games: Peeking into Valorant's Netcode (2020)
We’re Matt deWet, gameplay tech lead on VALORANT , and David Straily, project tech lead on VALORANT - and we're beyond excited to be here with you all to share some of the technical details behind how we’re addressing som…
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HybridNeRF: Efficient Neural Rendering
Neural radiance fields provide state-of-the-art view synthesis quality but tend to be slow to render. One reason is that they make use of volume rendering, thus requiring many samples (and model queries) per ray at render time. Although this representation is flexible and easy to optimize, most real-world objects can…
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Flow Field Pathfinding
You may know me for my interactive tutorials. But before that, I was writing visual but non-interactive tutorials. In particular, there wasn’t a lot of information about A* on the web, so I decided to collect all my notes about pathfinding [1] together in one place in the 1990s. But then in the 2010s I started making…
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IOCCC Flight Simulator (2010)
The IOCCC Flight Simulator was the winning entry in the 1998 International Obfuscated C Code Contest. It is a flight simulator in under 2 kilobytes of code, complete with relatively accurate 6-degree-of-freedom dynamics, loadable wireframe scenery, and a small instrument panel.
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From BSP to ESP – How S3ctor Abused Quake Editors to Redefine the Morrowind Mod
S3ctor is a core developer of OpenMW, and has, like most of us to be fair, odd interests. This is the incredible story how he mixed two immensely cool things: Quake, and Morrowind, narrated by our …
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Khronos Releases AV1 Decode in Vulkan Video with SDK Support for H.264/H.265
The Vulkan Working Group at Khronos has developed a set of video format decode and encode extensions, collectively referred to as Vulkan Video. Today, with the release of Vulkan 1.3.277, the Working Group is proud to announce the new Decode AV1 video extension. Similar to the Vulkan project in its goals, AV1 is a…
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Algorithmic Mathematical Art (2004)
In the early 1990s, they were merely visualization aids in the study of mathematics. Gradually, the complexity and artistry of the images becomes an end itself.
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The first 10k games at bgammon.org, an open source online backgammon service
An overview of the journey so far.
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Recreating the Flying Toasters screen saver for the Vision Pro
I recently decided to make an app for the Apple Vision Pro (AVP) during a two-week break between jobs. I wanted to explore its potential and learn some new skills. My day job primarily involves low-level firmware; I hadn’t built a user-facing app in a while–my last iOS app experience was back in high school in 2011!…
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Lou's Pseudo 3D Page (2013)
Previous update: An explanation of 3d projection mathematics (under Road Basics) and analysis of Activision's Enduro (under Case Studies)! Thanks to everyone for all the e-mail! Keep it coming :) Sorry, I can't answer questions about when I'll post source code, but I'm always happy to answer anything else about these…
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Planes in 3D Space
Visual and interactive introduction to 2D planes in 3D space.
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GPU synchronization in Godot 4.3 is getting a major upgrade
Say goodbye to placing barriers, hello to the new acyclic graph
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