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PSA: Discounted early registration for XRDC ends this Wednesday!
PSA: Discounted early registration for XRDC ends this Wednesday!
With just over a day left before XRDC early registration closes Wednesday, September 6th, conference organizers are encouraging anyone interested in coming to register now at a discounted rate!
Sept. 4, 2018
Come to XRDC and learn all about how to better use haptics in your work!
Come to XRDC and learn all about how to better use haptics in your work!
Come to XRDC next month, where Sense Glove's chief will bring you up to speed on the different types of haptics and how to implement them into XR projects, using real examples!
Sept. 4, 2018
Fantastic Arcade announces lineup of commissioned games
Fantastic Arcade announces lineup of commissioned games
Fantastic Arcade has announced the first wave of games to be featured during the indie festival, including titles like Boyfriend Dungeon, Spelunky 2 and five commissioned games.
Sept. 4, 2018
Check out Rolling Stone's 1972 coverage of Spacewar!
Check out Rolling Stone's 1972 coverage of Spacewar!
An original scan of a Spacewar! article published by Rolling Stone back in 1972 has been uploaded to the Internet Archive.
Sept. 4, 2018
IGF 2019 Inspirations: 2016 Excellence in Audio award winner Mini Metro!
IGF 2019 Inspirations: 2016 Excellence in Audio award winner Mini Metro!
Remember, entries for all IGF award categories are being accepted through October 1! To inspire you we've started a profile series of past IGF winners, continuing today with Mini Metro!
Sept. 4, 2018
First Time Porting to Consoles: Gotchas and Things to Consider
First Time Porting to Consoles: Gotchas and Things to Consider
I give a overview of the small but important console features that we have not considered when we were developing Lightfield for PlayStation4 and XBox One.
Sept. 4, 2018
Games that make us think
Games that make us think
What is the common point between Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, Spielberg’s ET and Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables? They are all seen as masterpieces in their respective genre, but why?
Sept. 4, 2018
Mess with This: Reset Hard's Approach to Modding
Mess with This: Reset Hard's Approach to Modding
Some technical background on how I'm approaching modding in Reset Hard and why.
Sept. 4, 2018
Planning and the Unknown Unknowns
Planning and the Unknown Unknowns
In this blog post, I talk about why we always fail to meet our deadlines and why our plans never work out, an some ways to mitigate that using psychology from Daniel Kahneman's book-- Thinking: Fast and Slow.
Sept. 4, 2018
Genetic Algorithms in Games (Part 1)
Genetic Algorithms in Games (Part 1)
Part of the problem with procedural generation is ensuring the content is both interesting and challenging across multiple playthroughs. Genetic algorithms offer us a novel solution to this problem.
Sept. 4, 2018
The challenge of finding enough playtesters
The challenge of finding enough playtesters
Finding playtesters who'll play your game weekly online is really difficult. But should you? This post discusses why you should not let the same people test all the time and how to find enough playtesters.
Sept. 4, 2018
Building a mod toolkit for Edge Of Eternity
Building a mod toolkit for Edge Of Eternity
From great tools come great creativity, this is our motto to create a modkit that will push the community forward into creating new awesome content for Edge Of Eternity
Sept. 4, 2018