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Jukebox
We’re introducing Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles. We’re releasing the model weights and code, along with a tool to explore the generated samples.
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State of Kdenlive
In 2025, the Kdenlive team continued grinding to push the project forward through steady development, collaboration, and community support. Over the past year we’ve found a nice balance between adding new features, bug fixing, polishing the user interface, and improving performance and workflow, with stability taking…
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Factorio 1.1 stable
1.1 stable kovarex Hello, we have a stable version! When we were releasing the 1.0 FFF-360, we actually stated that there were "around 150 bugs on the forums and around 80 internal tasks to be solved". These were obviously minor issues, things hard to reproduce or very rare problems. In other words, it was quite…
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Finishing my first game while working full-time
Lessons from finishing my first game, Pocket Pong AR
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Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable
With 380MM MAUs, Roblox probably counts more players than the entire AAA gaming ecosystem, is more played than Disney+ is watched, and is starting to rival smaller social networks in scale. But Roblox has yet to profit. How can it become a business comparable to its operating scale?
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The Factorio Mindset
Plus! The Carbon Rally; The Bridge; Housing and Rates; Full Stack Media; Buying Out Contracts; Diff Jobs
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Solitaire
I have cited a few games as inspiration for Balatro in the past, but I wanted to talk about one in particular that hasn’t been mentioned much that arguably is the most important. I think if I had some kind of Balatro vision board, solitaire (Klondike) would be right in the middle of it with a big r
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Alt-F4 #65 – Factorio visualizer in Unreal Engine 5
Today we’ve got a very fun project to talk about: The FUE5 project, explained in this article by Hurricane. It’s Factorio, but 3D! Dreams do come true sometimes. It’s not quite a game, but more of a stunning re-imagining of its visuals. There’s lots of technical details on how this was achieved, so let’s jump in. What…
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Godot at GDC 2018
I went to GDC yet again (this time GDC 2018) trying to see how Godot is doing at the game industry. To my surprise this time, it was quite different..
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My adventures getting Disney’s Moana island scene to render well with Pbrt
Adventures in rendering the Moana island scene with pbrt, collected together for your convenience.
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Factorio runs on Apple Silicon
Hello, engineers! I'm a newer face at Wube and have been mainly working on expansion content for about one year now. Today, I'm here to share some exciting non-expansion news for our Mac players.
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Dithering – Part 1
Understanding how dithering works, visually.
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When I made another Monkey Island
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
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The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games
This blog post explores the historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games.
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Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” synth sounds
Breaking down the Fairlight and Yamaha CS-80 sounds of Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill from Hounds of Love.
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Using Ghidra and Python to reverse engineer Ecco the Dolphin
Re-routing the encryption
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TDD from the Factorio Team
Hello, long time no see :) We obviously have a lot to talk about when it comes to the game changes we recently did, or plan to do, but we don't want to share any of it yet. Yet, there is currently a topic very relevant to us and we can share it without revealing any specific changes to the game. Today's post will be…
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SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release
Yes, if you have followed our development a bit, that might be a bit of a surprise. But we have been asked why we don't call this release 1....
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Wordle is pretty damn smart in many subtle ways
I love Wordle. I play it pretty much every single day. I also play the portuguese version immediately afterwards too. It is now part of my morning routine. Wordle is one of those ideas that just click and immediately have you wishing you were the one to have them. If you don’t know what Wordle is, just click here and…
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Northlight technology in Alan Wake 2
Showcasing new Northlight technology in Alan Wake 2
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The movie mistake mystery from "Revenge of the Sith"
Movies are handmade, and just like any other art form, sometimes the seams that hold movies together become visible to the audience. For mov...
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Blurry rendering of games on Mac
ProblemSolutionAffected GamesWhat Apple could do Problem I’ve submitted the issue described in this post to Apple as FB13375033. This issue has been open since September of 2023. If you game …
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Rotoscoped Animation of Filmed Parkour
Hallå! Welcome to my first game devlog. I figured I'd start out talking about graphics, as they are a large source of anxiety for first-time developers. And not without reason! Everyone is a judgy bastard when it comes to how your low-budget game is presented. Oh sure, it's become easier for a solo developer to mask…