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Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing may not be known by its name to many gamers, but they certainly do recognize its good looks, being used in such visually luxurious games as The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Batman: Arkham City and Battlefield 3 More »
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There a well known, long-established patterns for beating Pac-Man's mazes, up until the ninth Key, as Buckner & Garcia sang. Still, Pac's adversaries exhibit behavior that, if not exactly tactical, is still complex. More »
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Earlier this year, five students from the University of Central Florida had to design a networked, text-based multiplayer game for their programming class. This, amazingly, is what they came up with. More »
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There is no way in hell I could ever "play" it - my programming days ended with BASIC. But Corewar always intrigued me, because it was the closest thing to real-life Tron I could imagine. More »
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Alright, this post should make clear the provocation for yesterday's digression into Pac-Man's bathroom habits. While Fletch and I were pondering the question, we both came across this site, where programmer Don Hodges says he has fixed the glitch that caused Pac-Man's split-screen bug at board No. 256.
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When I was in college, I often found that video games interfered with my learning rather than encouraged it. That was a long time ago, however, and now many institutions offer specific courses dedicated to learn the craft of game creation. Now a university in Dublin Ireland is about to launch that country's very first Masters degree program focusing on interactive entertainment. Computer science degree holders will be able to join the one year postgraduate program, focusing on different aspects of the craft, such as AI, real-time animation, and tightening up the graphics on level 3. More »
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Retro Remakes is sponsoring a huge honking contest to create the best remake of a classic video game. There's 3692 worth of prizes to be won for "Good remakes of good games that anyone can play, regardless of their ability." More »
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If you're a writer, you've probably thought from time to time of trying your hand at a piece of interactive fiction, but soon been discouraged by the right-brain orientation of your mind that makes it practically impossible for you to grok the code necessary to make your story come alive. The latest iteration of the Inform platform, Inform 7, is trying to change all that with it's supposed "natural language" programming code. More »
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Check out this entry on the Guardian's always brilliant Gamesblog. The author, Keith Stuart, spoke with developers who've been slaving over games for the PlayStation 3. They told Stuart that, contrary to popular belief, it's not that difficult to program the PS3. In fact, it's not all that different from writing games for the PC, since the machine uses a version of OpenGL More »
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