Project Darkstar no more
Project Darkstar (http://www.projectdarkstar.com/), an open source software platform that simplifies the development of horizontally scalable servers... more »
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The Future of Firebase Community Edition
This blog post describes the immediate future of Cubeia Firebase CE, and open source Java game server. The near future plans include script support... more »
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An Introduction to AI in Games from Phil Carlisle
Every AI has a set of basic requirements. In the main, these can be broken down into a system for movement (often called pathfinding and/or... more »
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A thoroughly modern particle system
During the making of Frameranger, I spent some time looking into making a “modern particle system”. Particles have been around for ever and ever, and... more »
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Boost C++ libraries and game engines
If we talk game engines in particular, there is certainly no need for all the excessive functionality the Boost libraries provide. However, there are... more »
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Software Interview Questions - 5 Pirate fight for 100 gold coins
5 pirates find 100 gold coins and fight over it. How do they distribute it among themselves?
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The Art of Building and Maintaining an Unpopular MMO
The lead developer of an open source MMO reflects on the process so far.
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Working Out As A Programmer
"Working out lets you do the things you actually enjoy." This generic kind of inspirational poster from the gym actually hides some good advice for a... more »
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Doom Classic code review
Before studying the iPhone version, it was important for me to understand how Doom engine WAS performing rendition back in 1993. After all the OpenGL... more »
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Coder's Game: The Queue ICPC Challenge
The online battle for coding supremacy is ready to begin. The 2010 Queue ICPC Challenge, which begins this week, is a programming competition based on... more »
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XNA Screen Manager - Part 3
This is a third part of the XNA Screen Manager tutorials that I have written. In this tutorial I will add in support for the Xbox 360 controller with... more »
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Rendering graphics in JavaScript games
As I’ve been rewriting TankWar, I’ve been thinking of various approaches to displaying the game’s graphics. At the moment, I can count three feasible... more »
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Programmer's arrogance graph
I've got a theory (which is built on empirical experience, of course), that if we imagine that amount of "arrogance" can be measured with a scalar... more »
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ActiveWorlds Virtual Reality framework with db4o
This library provides an application framework for the Active Worlds Virtual Reality environment and is written in C# .NET 3.5. It uses db4o for... more »
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On Coin Tossing Games and unexptected probabilities
Even simple games show the fact that human beings faced with propability challenges often act completely irrational and, furthermore, this irrational... more »
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Openoffice.org- Play starwars galaxy easter egg in Calc
There is a hidden game in the Openoffice Spreadsheet program Calc, the game is an Easter Egg that let’s you play a simple version of Space Invaders,... more »
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MonoXNA | managed game development
MonoXNA is a cross platform implementation of the XNA gaming framework. It runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux using OpenGL for 3D support.
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JavaScript Game Engine hits the web
Well, it took me four years, but I believe I have finally proven that you don't need Flash to make great web games. I have just launched a new... more »
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Python and Pygame - A Primer
So you're sitting around, playing some simple game on your computer, and you finally realize that as a developer, you can make games too. After a... more »
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A* pathfinding search in C# - Part 2
This post describes step by step the methods used to implement the A* search algorithm. To illustrate the path finding problem and how it can be... more »
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A* pathfinding search in C# - Part 3
This is the last installment in the series about A* search. The C# source code implemented is available in the final part of this post. As promised... more »
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Silverlight Game: Froggy Math
"Froggy Math" is a little educational Silverlight game that I've been picking at when I had a free hour here and there for the past several weeks. The... more »
LWJGL 2.2.1 Released
The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is a solution aimed directly at professional and amateur Java programmers alike to enable commercial quality... more »
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Tutorials - Graphics / Game Programming
So, I'm writing this tutorial for those who might want to take a more 'traditional' introduction to graphics, instead of taking the more common... more »
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Attention: BlackBerry App Builders, New Tools for You
Several new tools will be coming to developers who build apps for the BlackBerry platform. Research In Motion (RIM) announced many additons to its... more »
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