I want to introduce you all to something myself and @jacksonwryan.com have been working on.
A PRINT MAGAZINE about video games and video game culture.
We know things have been bad for games writing recently. We're asking, "do you want to Continue?"
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I'm finally writing up how Nanite Tessellation works. The first few blogs posts are up. More will be coming.
graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani...
My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
Works on my machine.
Earth: Harmless.
My intro to the Eagles and Journey of the Sourcerer...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBrdkw6RACU&list=PLO-wxIy9sHyZsh6B56YoiHYbf9IAQGo3c
Good times. :)
Oh-my-god that's awesome!!!
Since today's discourse is on how "not everyone grew up with Nintendo", I'll reshare this: medium.com/@felipepepe/...
And reinforce that this is systemic - a consequence of US hegemony. It's NOT a personal attack on American journos, youtubers & gamers, but rather a reminder of our differences.
2000s?!?! HA! There is no way that photo's from 15+ years ago. You'd need a time machine or the fountain of youth for that to be from the 00's! That said, such an indie band album cover in the making!
Do you like arcade and home computer game disassemblies? This site might be to your tastes.
mrcook.uk/arcade-game-...
#RetroDev
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TIL that because the FFmpeg project has gained so much experience in hand-writing assembly code to provide huge speedups, they now are putting together a series of lessons for learning assembly:
Vibe coding is fun and all, but this is probably a better use of time!
github.com/FFmpeg/asm-l...
Can fully recommend Jack Irish with Guy Pearce if you're looking for something else. iview.abc.net.au/show/jack-ir...
HAHAHA! Glad I could help...? :)
Interesting presentation from Matt Delbosc at GCAP where he talks about using telemetry for remote performance monitoring and the data science behind understanding what they are seeing better.
They use influxdb for storage and Grafana for presentation of data.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0xa...
I appreciate that it would be a sacrifice. But it would be worth it. 😂🍻🍻🍻
They might make an exception for a regular local. 😁
Welcome aboard. Your early work and dev diaries inspired me to become a games developer. Thanks for all the great games you've made and knowledge you've shared. I certainly owe you a couple of pints for the impact you've had on me.
Yes, yes, yes!
Great series! Thanks for recording this piece of gaming history. Ordered!
Most definitely, yes!
Ship it! ;)
I thought you might find this article from The Atlantic interesting: "How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days" - www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv.... It explores how authoritarianism gains traction through legal and institutional loopholes and complements Mayer's themes nicely.
All home servers named after movie computers - WOPR, HAL, Deepthought, MCP, Edgar.
Yes!!
Amiga hardware reference manual front cover photo on wooden slat table.
That's awesome! This is the series I had. I use to love pouring over these. Cost a small fortune when you're at high-school too. Tried showing friends at school, but they just asked if I could copy un-cracked games with it.
I had the same obsession with the PS2's EE, GS and VU manuals later too. :)
Was huge in Europe, but not the US. 🤷♂️ I'll have to checkout the @jesperjuul.bsky.social book myself. It sounds interesting. </rant>
<rant>I think the whole of computer history is "tainted" this way TBH. The Amiga for example always seems to be forgotten despite having a full pre-emptive multitasking, window GUI OS, a full colour display with up to 4096 colours in 1985 and costing 70% of an Apple Mac and offering way more.
Same experience for me. Growing up in Australia, I saw very few titles from the US for the platforms I had, the c64 and Amiga. Most were from Europe which is also where all the reading material(mags) came from, Zzap64, Commodore User, C&VG, CCI.
