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Interesting links (December 2015)

2015-12-31T10:37:00.003+01:00

I use my twitter account to, among other things, share links to websites, documents, videos, books... I find interesting (mostly about game development). I'm trying to make monthly posts in this blog with a selection of the latest ones so they don't get lost in my twitter timeline. Here are the links I've selected from December 2015:

Interesting read: "A Game Art Trick: Fallout 4 – The Mushroom Case" http://simonschreibt.de/gat/fallout-4-the-mushroom-case/
Interesting read: "Announcing Handmade Quake!" http://philipbuuck.com/announcing-handmade-quake
Interesting free ebooks: "The Digital Antiquarian - A history of computer entertainment" http://www.filfre.net/the-digital-antiquarian-e-book-library/
Interesting read: "Steam Spy: Preliminary results for Steam sales in 2015" https://medium.com/steam-spy/preliminary-results-for-steam-sales-in-2015-43bb49a767bd#.c89yfeigo
Interesting read: "Dear Unity" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ByronAtkinsonJones/20151221/262357/Dear_Unity.php
Interesting video: "SpaceX: first automated landing" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgaWHnY2Ph8 … Full launch webcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5bTbVbe4e4
Interesting read: "The Ideal Structure For Your Indie Game Website" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/LoganWilliams/20151218/262264/The_Ideal_Structure_For_Your_Indie_Game_Website.php
Interesting read: "itch.io: Game communities now available" http://blog.itch.io/post/135398182684/game-communities-now-available

Interesting image: "'Marias Pass,' Contact Zone of Two Martian Rock Units" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=pia20174
Interesting read: "Multi-use Tooltip system in Unity3D" http://www.hammerandravens.com/multi-use-tooltip-system-in-unity3d/
Interesting read: "How Do Alien Isolation’s Lockers Work?" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/12/18/alien-isolation-lockers/
Interesting read: "2016 Will Be Great For Gamers: Part 1, Graphics" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/12/17/2016-graphics-cards/
Interesting read: "Rubicon's Bundle Stars Postmortem" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/JosephPerry/20151216/261950/Rubicons_Bundle_Stars_Postmortem.php
Interesting website: "Lovetextures: Free Textures" http://www.lovetextures.com/
Interesting read: "How the TPP Perpetuates the Mistakes of the DMCA" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/how-tpp-perpetuates-mistakes-dmca
Interesting video: "Game Maker's Toolkit - 5 Bits of Good Game Design from 2015" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5EcpT3O0r8
Interesting read: "Accessibility Design: Color Blindness" http://www.alanzucconi.com/2015/12/16/color-blindness/
Interesting read: "Retro Games on ArduinoCade Just Shouldn’t Be Possible" http://hackaday.com/2015/09/17/retro-games-on-arduinocade-just-shouldnt-be-possible/
Interesting read: "7 combat systems that every game designer should study" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/261698/7_combat_systems_that_every_designer_should_study.php
Interesting read: "Hi, I’m from the games industry. Governments, please stop us." http://positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2015/12/13/hi-im-from-the-games-industry-governments-please-stop-us/
Interesting video: "Curiosity Rover Report (Dec. 15, 2015): First Visit to Martian Dunes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur_TeOs3S64
Interesting read: "Humble Widget Self-Service open beta" http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/135198674245/humble-widget-self-service-open-beta
Interesting website: "HacknPlan - The project planning tool for indie game developers" http://hacknplan.com/
Interesting video: "IFD's (soon to be id Software) Super Mario Bros. 3 Demo (1990)" https://vimeo.com/148909578
Interesting video: "Far Cry 4 (animal interactions)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBqMkYpIup8
Interesting video: "I will now talk about multiplayer only games for just under 40 mins." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4tNoVHr5iI
Interesting read: "Speak Up & Stay Safe(r): A Guide to Protecting Yourself From Online Harassment" https://onlinesafety.feministfrequency.com/en/
Interesting read: "Managing Meta Files in Unity" https://gamedevdaily.io/managing-meta-files-in-unity-713166ee3d30#.40tjgiube
Interesting read: "Game Development Infrastructure: What's Yours?" https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/3w4w8d/game_development_infrastructure_whats_yours/
Interesting read: "New Clues to Ceres' Bright Spots and Origins" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4785
Interesting talk: "Analyzing The Steam Marketplace" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLTDjq_xPig
Interesting read: "Character Design - Overgrowth" http://blog.wolfire.com/2015/12/Character-Design
Interesting read: "Peering Through Titan's Haze" http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/imagedetails/index.cfm?imageId=5278
Interesting read: "Postmortem: Irrational Games' System Shock 2" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131813/postmortem_irrational_games_.php?print=1
Interesting read: "Unity 5.3: All-new features and more platforms" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/12/08/unity-5-3-all-new-features-and-more-platforms/
Interesting read: "How the TPP Will Affect You and Your Digital Rights" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/how-tpp-will-affect-you-and-your-digital-rights
Interesting read: "Clone Wars: The Five Most Important Cases Every Game Developer Should Know" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/187385/clone_wars_the_five_most_.php
Interesting repository: "Noise Shader Library for Unity" https://github.com/keijiro/NoiseShader
Interesting read: "Let’s Encrypt has entered Public Beta" https://letsencrypt.org/2015/12/03/entering-public-beta.html
Interesting read: "The agony and ecstasy behind the first Rainbow Six" http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-12-04-the-agony-and-ecstasy-behind-the-first-rainbow-six
Interesting read: "Texture formats for 2D games, part 4: Overview" http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/texture-formats-for-2d-games-part-4.html
Interesting read: "New Horizons Returns First of the Best Images of Pluto" https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-returns-first-of-the-best-images-of-pluto
Interesting read: "The making of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/258603/The_making_of_Prince_of_Persia_The_Sands_of_Time.php
Interesting read: "Random Acts of Optimization" http://engineering.riotgames.com/news/random-acts-optimization
Interesting read: "Budget Gaming Monitors 2015" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/11/05/budget-gaming-monitors-2015/
Interesting read: "What is Color Banding? And what is it not?" http://simonschreibt.de/gat/colorbanding/
Interesting read: "SOMA, BioShock and horror: how games tap into our internal fears" http://www.alphr.com/life-culture/1001818/soma-bioshock-and-horror-how-games-tap-into-our-internal-fears
Interesting read: "Four Examples Of Excellent Interface Design" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/11/24/best-interface-design/
Interesting read: "Introducing the itch.io community" http://blog.itch.io/post/134279294469/introducing-the-itchio-community
Interesting read: "Custom Coroutines" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/12/01/custom-coroutines/
Interesting images: "The Models And Miniatures Of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner" http://oneperfectshotdb.com/news/the-models-and-miniatures-of-ridley-scotts-blade-runner-a-behind-the-scenes-gallery/
Interesting video: "UE4: Workflow Tutorial - How I Created "The Corridor" Environment in 10 Hours" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaUt1p3PQvo
Interesting read: "Lucas Pope and the rise of the 1-bit 'dither-punk' aesthetic" http://gamasutra.com/view/news/260368/Lucas_Pope_and_the_rise_of_the_1bit_ditherpunk_aesthetic.php
Interesting video: "I will now talk about Kotaku being blacklisted for just over 35 minutes (TotalBiscuit)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2zaW1sQg0M

Interesting links (November 2015)

2015-11-30T17:59:00.004+01:00

Interesting slides: "The Ultimate Trim: Texturing Techniques of Sunset Overdrive" http://gdcvault.com/play/1022324/The-Ultimate-Trim-Texturing-Techniques
Interesting video: "Just Cause 3 Dev Diary: ENGINE" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUEwOGo3BFI
Interesting video: "Avengers' Cancelled First Person Action Game" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bd4OeguMpI
Interesting read: "Dreamfall Chapters, Extreme Makeover Edition, or: The Rocky Road to Unity 5" https://medium.com/@ragso/dreamfall-chapters-extreme-makeover-edition-or-the-rocky-road-to-unity-5-48e1f22ea62#.g53nbbu0f
Interesting video: "Uncovering The Secrets Of Max Payne And Alan Wake In Remedy's Warehouse" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1HmgMDW6AA
Interesting video: "Introducing PIZERO (Raspberry Pi Foundation)" https://vimeo.com/146893658
Interesting read: "How to Write Native Plugins for Unity" http://www.alanzucconi.com/2015/10/11/how-to-write-native-plugins-for-unity/
Interesting read: "How to Use a Shader to Dynamically Swap a Sprite's Colors" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-use-a-shader-to-dynamically-swap-a-sprites-colors--cms-25129
Interesting read: "Under Construction - a study of 1990s website design" http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/under-construction/

Interesting read: "The Infocom Cabinet: Binders and Folders of Infocom, Inc. (1981-1987)" https://archive.org/details/infocomcabinet
Interesting video: "GTA V on the Force Dynamics 401cr motion platform" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkPXLPIbIQY
Interesting read: "Conserving Tennis For Two" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/BenJohnson/20151123/260126/Conserving_Tennis_For_Two.php
Interesting read: "The making of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/258315/The_making_of_Call_of_Duty_4_Modern_Warfare.php
Interesting read: "Introduction To Unity: Particle Systems" http://www.raywenderlich.com/113049/introduction-unity-particle-systems
Interesting read: "SOCOM lives: How a PS2 classic is being remastered by fans" http://www.pcgamer.com/socom-lives-how-a-ps2-classic-is-being-remastered-by-fans/
Interesting read: "Texture formats for 2D games, part 3: DXT and PVRTC" http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/texture-formats-for-2d-games-part-3-dxt.html
Interesting read: "Devlog: Flowing Water - The Wild Eternal" http://www.thewildeternal.com/2014/09/02/devlog-flowing-water/
Interesting image: "Cassini Solstice Mission: A Brighter Moon" http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/imagedetails/index.cfm?imageId=5272
Interesting talk: "Writing Shaders" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epixwRw80MM & resources: https://github.com/VoxelBoy/Resources-for-Writing-Shaders-in-Unity
Interesting video: "Mark Hamill on Star Citizen, Wing Commander and Star Wars" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQQPzHerrPE
Interesting read: "Tomb Raider and the clash between story and violence in games" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/259613/Tomb_Raider_and_the_clash_between_story_and_violence_in_games.php
Interesting talk: "AI in the Awesomepocalypse - Creating the Enemies of Sunset Overdrive" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1021780/AI-in-the-Awesomepocalypse-Creating
Interesting video: "Telltale Games: Story Mode (Documentary)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozg8O91dqRA
Interesting read: "Face-Off: Rise of the Tomb Raider on Xbox 360" http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-rise-of-the-tomb-raider-face-off
Interesting talk: "50 Game Camera Mistakes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7307qRmlMI
Interesting read: "Fallout 4 – Wasteland Eyes - A Game Art Trick" http://simonschreibt.de/gat/fallout4-wasteland-eyes/
Interesting read: "Steam refunds, based on our Early Access experience" https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/3t4qs4/steam_refunds_based_on_our_early_access_experience/
Interesting read: "Classic Postmortem: The making of Half-Life 2" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/259479/Classic_Postmortem_The_making_of_HalfLife_2.php
Interesting read: "Two years of revenue for #1 iOS game A Dark Room" https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/3syzuc/two_years_of_revenue_for_1_ios_game_a_dark_room/
Interesting read: "Processing for Raspberry Pi" http://hackaday.com/2015/11/15/processing-for-raspberry-pi/
Interesting read: "Texture formats for 2D games, part 2: Palettes" http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/texture-formats-for-2d-games-part-2.html
Interesting video: "Unity 3D - visual effects with Shader Forge" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WXUelRjOm0
Interesting read: "NASA’s Cassini Finds Monstrous Ice Cloud in Titan’s South Polar Region" http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/monstrous-ice-cloud-in-titans-south-polar-region
Interesting read: "Texture formats for 2D games, part 1" http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/texture-formats-for-2d-games-part-1.html
Interesting read: "The tech that built an empire: how Rockstar created the world of GTA 5" http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/the-tech-that-built-an-empire-how-rockstar-created-the-world-of-gta-5-1181281
Interesting read: "Beyond Zork" http://www.filfre.net/2015/11/beyond-zork/
Interesting talk: "How Cameras in Side-Scrollers Work" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdvCO97jOQk
Interesting read: "What if Fallout 4 was built with Cryengine?" http://80.lv/articles/what-if-fallout-4-was-built-with-cryengine/
Interesting read: "The Lost Art of C Structure Packing" http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/
Interesting talk: "Destiny's Multithreaded Rendering Architecture" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nTDFLMLX9k
Interesting read: "UX pointers for VR design" https://medium.com/@timoni/ux-pointers-for-vr-design-dd52b718e19
Interesting read: "Bedroom demo: Archviz with SSRR" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/11/10/bedroom-demo-archviz-with-ssrr/
Interesting repository: "UnityStbEasyFont - A port of stb_easy_font.h to Unity/C#" https://github.com/aras-p/UnityStbEasyFont
Interesting read: "Five Rules for Game Development Conferences" http://mollyrocket.com/news_0008.html
Interesting read: "Postmortem: Monolith's No One Lives Forever" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131478/postmortem_monoliths_no_one_.php?print=1
Interesting read: "The Making Of Fallout 4" http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2015/11/06/the-making-of-fallout-4.aspx
Interesting read: "The Life and Creativity of A Great Bethesda Artist" http://kotaku.com/the-life-and-creativity-of-a-great-bethesda-artist-1740993491
Interesting read: "On Early Access games - Steam Spy" https://medium.com/steam-spy/on-early-access-games-39aed2b8f82d
Interesting talk: "Creating Bioshock Infinite's Elizabeth" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6uwI_MOjjc
Interesting read: "Awesome Realtime GI on desktops and consoles" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/11/05/awesome-realtime-gi-on-desktops-and-consoles/
Interesting read: "Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users’ Rights" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/release-full-tpp-text-after-five-years-secrecy-confirms-threats-users-rights
Interesting video: "Oculus Connect 2: Live Coding Session with John Carmack" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydyztGZnbNs
Interesting read: "Falling Into Fallout 3: Director Todd Howard Talks Scope And Evolution" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132209/falling_into_fallout_3_director_.php?print=1
Interesting read: "5 Gaming Influencers on the Games that Influenced Them" http://gearpatrol.com/2015/11/04/influential-games-and-game-designers/
Interesting read: "Supreme Commander - Graphics Study" http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/06/23/supreme-commander-graphics-study/
Interesting read: "Colour Schemes" https://personal.sron.nl/~pault/
Interesting read: "Microsoft Admits Windows 10 Automatic Spying Cannot Be Stopped" http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/11/02/microsoft-confirms-unstoppable-windows-10-tracking/
Interesting read: "GTA V - Graphics Study" http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/11/02/gta-v-graphics-study/
Interesting read: "The 5 Golden Rules of Input" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/ZachBurke/20151030/257920/The_5_Golden_Rules_of_Input.php
Interesting read: "10 years later, F.E.A.R. is still the ultimate shooter experience" https://michelsabbagh.wordpress.com/2015/08/20/10-years-later-f-e-a-r-is-still-the-ultimate-shooter-experience/
Interesting video: "Thief vs. AAA Gaming" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPqwDGXxLhU
Interesting free ebooks: "VERTEX 1, 2 & 3" http://artbypapercut.com
Interesting repository: "Vox engine - an open source voxel engine that is written in C++ and OpenGL" https://github.com/AlwaysGeeky/Vox

Interesting links (October 2015)

2015-10-31T09:24:00.000+01:00

Interesting video: "Halo 5 Guardians: The Price Of 60fps" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gQMulb6T2o
Interesting read: "The Art of Fallout 4" https://bethesda.net/#en/events/game/the-art-of-fallout-4/2015/10/28/41
Interesting video: "Just Cause 3 Dev Diaries: Story" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-CHpxJCbcs
Interesting videos: "The Making of Doom 3" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QOmMYzWJlA & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uxCYkh--q0
Interesting read: "Optimising PixelJunk Shooter and giving it the 'Ultimate' look" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RobWare/20151026/257309/Optimising_PixelJunk_Shooter_and_giving_it_the_Ultimate_look.php
Interesting read: "Reverse engineering Batman's glide (translation)" https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/3kb3jl/reverse_engineering_batmans_glide_translation/
Interesting videos: "Making Of Crysis" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMlcUBJQ2bk & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcvU5t1B8Ns
Interesting read: "12 performance tricks for optimizing VR apps in Unity 5" http://dshankar.svbtle.com/performance-optimization-for-vr-apps
Interesting read: "You're Afraid of Success" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/NicholasLaborde/20151023/257224/Youre_Afraid_of_Success.php

Interesting video: "Making Of - Deus Ex Human Revolution" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gne5mTP8Kw
Interesting video: "Game Maker's Toolkit - Why Nathan Drake Doesn't Need a Compass" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k70_jvVOcG0
Interesting repository: "Unity Movement AI - Steering Behaviors" https://github.com/antonpantev/unity-movement-ai
Interesting video: "'Free to Play' Business Model Debate with Shawn McGrath" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQgFArro0GQ
Interesting read: "X:Rebirth – Geometric Lensflares" http://simonschreibt.de/gat/xrebirth-geometric-lensflares/
Interesting read: "Closing the Loopholes in Europe's Net Neutrality Compromise" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/closing-loopholes-europes-net-neutrality-compromise
Interesting video: "Making of BioShock" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyZJ-JEFBCY
Interesting read: "The making of Far Cry 2" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/255364/The_making_of_Far_Cry_2.php
Interesting read: "A Conversation With the Woman Who Saved More Than 1000 Gross Online Messages" http://www.3news.co.nz/tvshows/newsworthy/a-conversation-with-the-woman-who-saved-more-than-1000-gross-online-messages-2015102018#ixzz3pFli1cT8
Interesting talk: "A coder's guide to spline-based procedural geometry" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9RK6O2kOKo
Interesting repository: "Code for the "Graphics Gems" book series" https://github.com/erich666/GraphicsGems
Interesting read: "How Trade Agreements Harm Open Access and Open Source" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/how-trade-agreements-harm-open-access-and-open-source
Interesting video: "F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon 'Making of'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSrMnOuImQA
Interesting read: "Code for Doing Two Things That Sooner or Later You Will Want to do with Bezier Curves" http://jwezorek.com/2015/01/my-code-for-doing-two-things-that-sooner-or-later-you-will-want-to-do-with-bezier-curves/
Interesting read: "The Pinball Wizard" http://www.filfre.net/2013/02/the-pinball-wizard/
Interesting talk: "Physics and features in 2D and 3D" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJxVCiFn3mA
Interesting read: "Unravelling The Mysteries of Post Processing" https://www.cleansourcecode.com/index.php/blog/unravelling-the-mysteries-of-post-processing/
Interesting channel: "The Paramount Vault" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzMVH2jEyEwXPBvyht8xQNw/playlists
Interesting read: "The little book about OS development" https://littleosbook.github.io/
Interesting video: "The TPP Effect On The Video Game Industry" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DIJVetzaHs
Interesting read: "The Alienware Steam Machine: finally, a gaming PC for the living room" http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/15/alienware-steam-machine-review/
Interesting videos: "Battlefield 3 Campaign Developer Commentary" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4ZS2guXqa_jv6qN4dUuJFgvJBE4DIspk
Interesting read: "My Guiding Art Principles - Retrospective on work from Far Cry 4..." http://gamasutra.com/blogs/JobyeKarmaker/20150901/252663/My_Guiding_Art_Principles__Retrospective_on_work_from_Far_Cry_4__Splinter_Cell_Blacklist.php
Interesting images: "Closest Northern Views of Saturn's Moon Enceladus" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4738
Interesting talk: "Rami Ismail to indie startups: You Don't Stand a Chance" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZn9a9-Gyc0
Interesting video: "No Man's Sky Exclusive Demo: Part Two" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqUd3qj102Y
Interesting repository: "Urho3D - a cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine" https://github.com/urho3d/Urho3D
Interesting talk: "Procedural Cinematography in Homeworld Shipbreakers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNR9Nvjsv9Y
Interesting read: "Making Better Games With Procedural Generation" http://80.lv/articles/making-better-games-with-procedural-generation/
Interesting image: "Curiosity Self-Portrait at 'Big Sky' Drilling Site" http://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=7507
Interesting read: "Remembering the fun of making games at the 2015 Apple ][ Reunion Party" https://davidmullich.wordpress.com/2015/06/22/remembering-the-fun-of-making-games-at-the-2015-apple-reunion-party/
Interesting read: "A Work Flow Trick: Open Assets with Notepad++" http://simonschreibt.de/wft/open-assets-with-notepad/
Interesting video: "Glen Keane – Step into the Page" https://vimeo.com/138790270
Interesting read: "The Effects of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture - Part1" http://www.thechineseroom.co.uk/blog/the-effects-of-everybodys-gone-to-the-rapture-part1
Interesting read: "Tutorial: Dynamic Mesh Combining in Unity" http://www.habrador.com/tutorials/unity-mesh-combining-tutorial/
Interesting read: "TPP Treaty: Intellectual Property Rights Chapter - 5 October 2015" https://wikileaks.org/tpp-ip3/
Interesting news: "Mixamo is free!" https://community.mixamo.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/206715697-Mixamo-is-free-
Interesting read: "Unity Web Player Roadmap" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/10/08/unity-web-player-roadmap/
Interesting repository: "General Purpose GOAP (Goal Oriented Action Planning)" https://github.com/stolk/GPGOAP
Interesting read: "How to integrate Arduino with Unity" http://www.alanzucconi.com/2015/10/07/how-to-integrate-arduino-with-unity/
Interesting read: "The hand-drawn art and animation of Jotun" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/255371/Art_Design_Deep_Dive_The_handdrawn_art_and_animation_of_Jotun.php
Interesting video: "Evolución del Videojuego Español 1981-2016" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmzyUNEPVqI
Interesting read: "Watchdog Script" http://simonschreibt.de/wft/watchdog/
Interesting read: "We've started work on a new memory profiler" http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/weve-started-work-on-a-new-memory-profiler.358963/
Interesting video: "LGR - Retro City Rampage 486 for DOS" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il65FIKWgEk
Interesting read: "The secret developers of the video game industry" http://www.polygon.com/2015/9/30/9394355/the-secret-developers-of-the-video-game-industry
Interesting talk: "Oculus Connect 2 Keynote with Michael Abrash" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYwKZDpsjgg
Interesting read: "Trade Officials Announce Conclusion of TPP—Now the Real Fight Begins" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/trade-officials-announce-conclusion-tpp-now-real-fight-begins
Interesting talk: "Oculus Connect 2 Keynote with John Carmack" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti_3SqavXjk
Interesting repository: "imgui - Immediate Mode Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies" https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
Interesting read: "Physically based rendering" http://blog.wolfire.com/2015/10/Physically-based-rendering
Interesting read: "SOMA - 10 days after launch" http://frictionalgames.blogspot.com/2015/10/soma-10-days-after-launch.html
Interesting read: "UE4: 16 Principles - How to Start Learning Unreal Engine 4" http://worldofleveldesign.com/categories/ue4/ue4-how-to-learn-unreal-engine4.php
Interesting read: "On #Indiepocalypse: What is really killing indie games" https://medium.com/steam-spy/on-indiepocalypse-what-is-really-killing-indie-games-3da3c3a1ea76
Interesting read: "ARM Guide for Unity Developers: Optimizing Mobile Gaming Graphics" http://malideveloper.arm.com/documentation/developer-guides/arm-guide-unity-enhancing-mobile-games/
Interesting read: "How to be really bad at game development" http://positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2015/09/28/how-to-be-really-bad-at-game-development/
Interesting images: "Images From Apollo, Ahead of the Supermoon Eclipse" http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/09/images-from-apollo-ahead-of-the-supermoon-eclipse/407584/

Interesting links (September 2015)

2015-09-30T14:14:00.002+02:00

Interesting read: "Working With Complex State Machines in Mecanim" http://kalandorstudio.com/nerg/handling-complex-state-machines-mecanim/
Interesting video: "Turning a game design into a software design and production plan" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76HxV9urtaI
Interesting read: "EPA opposed DMCA exemptions that could have revealed Volkswagen Fraud" http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/epa-opposed-dmca-exemptions-that-could-have-revealed-volkswagen-fraud
Interesting read: "The Mysterious World of Game Budgets (Ron Gilbert)" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/RonGilbert/20150924/254590/The_Mysterious_World_of_Game_Budgets.php
Interesting read: "Announcing HandmadeCon 2015!" http://mollyrocket.com/news_0002.html
Interesting read: "NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars" http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/2015/09/28/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-todays-mars
Interesting read: "How to Adapt A* Pathfinding to a 2D Grid-Based Platformer" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/series/how-to-adapt-a-pathfinding-to-a-2d-grid-based-platformer--cms-882

Interesting read: "The Key Masters: Reselling and the Games Industry" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/PaulKilduffTaylor/20150925/254656/The_Key_Masters_Reselling_and_the_Games_Industry.php
Interesting read: "Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama" http://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-wows-in-spectacular-new-backlit-panorama
Interesting read: "Memorable Main Menu Sound Design" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/KyleJohnson/20150901/252650/Memorable_Main_Menu_Sound_Design.php
Interesting video: "TotalBiscuit: how games get featured on my channel" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pRDRCorx14
Interesting video: "A Brief History of Video Game Title Design" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrN3377iuTI
Interesting read: "AI Madness: Using AI to Bring Open-City Racing to Life" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131515/ai_madness_using_ai_to_bring_.php?print=1
Interesting read: "Working on the User Interface in Kôna" http://madewith.unity.com/made-with-unity/stories/working-user-interface-kona
Interesting read: "Applying Modular Techniques to Wheels" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/JobyeKarmaker/20150922/254253/MicroTut_Applying_Modular_Techniques_to_Wheels.php
Interesting read: "War Commander: World (Map) domination with Unity 5" http://madewith.unity.com/made-with-unity/stories/war-commander-rogue-assault
Interesting read: "4 reasons you aren’t a successful indie developer" http://clicktobegin.net/productivity/reasons-you-arent-a-successful-indie/
Interesting read: "PuniTy and Controller Support – Getting thumbsticks to feel good" http://www.the-outline.com/punity-and-controller-support-getting-thumbsticks-to-feel-good/
Interesting read: "27 Step Crash Course to Getting Started with Unreal Engine 4" http://www.worldofleveldesign.com/categories/ue4/ue4-getting-started-crash-course.php
Interesting read: "Five Reasons to Trademark Your Video Game Today" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/StephenMcArthur/20150917/252626/Five_Reasons_to_Trademark_Your_Video_Game_Today.php
Interesting read: "Welcome to Made with Unity" http://madewith.unity.com/made-with-unity/stories/welcome-mwu … and website: http://madewith.unity.com/
Interesting repository: "Unity-UI-Extensions" https://bitbucket.org/ddreaper/unity-ui-extensions
Interesting read: "SOMA - Behind The Sound" http://frictionalgames.blogspot.com/2015/09/soma-behind-sound.html
Interesting read: "Cassini Finds Global Ocean in Saturn's Moon Enceladus" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4718
Interesting videos: "Unreal Engine Tutorials" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3hM7_RDaHMyWSICEJVSye0AL8wSdRcO1
Interesting read: "Deep Style Networks: Famous Painters Make Concept Art for Quake" http://nucl.ai/blog/deep-style-networks-quake/
Interesting read: "Ceres' Bright Spots Seen in Striking New Detail" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4714
Interesting video: "Designing a Procedurally Generated Game - Dwarf Fortress, Darkest Dungeon, etc" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9pc8li4fuQ
Interesting talk: "Handmade Detail in a Procedural World" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022751/Handmade-Detail-in-a-Procedural
Interesting read: "How paying for content ratings is hurting devs who release in Europe" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/253603/How_paying_for_content_ratings_is_hurting_devs_who_release_in_Europe.php
Interesting read: "UDK Volumetric Light Beam Tutorial" http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/VolumetricLightbeamTutorial.html
Interesting read: "Making a new game from an old genre with Horizon Chase" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/FelipeDalMolin/20150911/253361/Making_a_new_game_from_an_old_genre_with_Horizon_Chase.php
Interesting read: "How one VFX artist made these 3 minutes of madness" http://www.fxguide.com/featured/how-one-vfx-artist-made-these-3-minutes-of-madness/
Interesting read: "The Witcher 3: Designing the Environments (Developer Interview)" https://www.mapcore.org/articles/interviews/the-witcher-3-designing-the-environments-developer-interview-r69/
Interesting read: "Radial Layouts, nice and simple in Unity3Ds UI System" http://www.justapixel.co.uk/radial-layouts-nice-and-simple-in-unity3ds-ui-system/
Interesting list: "Single-file public-domain/open source libraries with minimal dependencies" https://github.com/nothings/stb#other_libs
Interesting read: "BioShock Infinite Lighting" http://solid-angle.blogspot.com/2014/03/bioshock-infinite-lighting.html
Interesting talk: "Interaction Design in VR: The Rules Have Changed (Again)" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022810/Interaction-Design-in-VR-The
Interesting read: "The Indie Bubble Revisited (or, Are We All Totally-Doomed, or Just Regular-Doomed?)" http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-indie-bubble-revisited-or-are-we.html
Interesting read: "Free Infinity Blade Collection Now Available in the Unreal Engine Marketplace" https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/free-infinity-blade-collection-marketplace-release
Interesting video: "The failure of an indie platformer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4F-zdpFb9I
Interesting read: "‘Good’ isn’t good enough - releasing an indie game in 2015" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/DanielWest/20150908/253040/Good_isnt_good_enough__releasing_an_indie_game_in_2015.php
Interesting talk: "Oh My! That Sound Made the Game Feel Better!" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022808/Oh-My-That-Sound-Made
Interesting free ebook: "Cross Platform Game Development with MonoGame" http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2015/09/08/Free-MonoGame-e-book-Cross-Platform-Game-Development-with-MonoGame.aspx
Interesting read: "The 5 Myths of the Indiepocalypse" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/RyanClark/20150908/253087/The_5_Myths_of_the_Indiepocalypse.php
Interesting read: "How to train players right, so they don't hate learning to play" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/253028/How_to_train_players_right_so_they_dont_hate_learning_to_play.php
Interesting podcast: "GameSlice #1: Gabe Newell and Erik Johnson from Valve" https://soundcloud.com/gameslice/valve
Interesting read: "Unity 5.2 and Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.1" http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/09/08/unity-5-2-and-visual-studio-tools-for-unity-2-1.aspx
Interesting read: "Designing a Jump in Unity" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/DanielFineberg/20150825/244650/Designing_a_Jump_in_Unity.php
Interesting read: "Writing a Game Boy Advance Game" https://www.reinterpretcast.com/writing-a-game-boy-advance-game
Interesting read: "Is Early Access A Good Thing For Players Or Developers?" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/07/31/steam-early-access-good-bad/
Interesting video: "Star Marine: Audio Update" https://vimeo.com/138360203
Interesting video: "David Gibson - Evolve Animation + Game Development Reel" https://vimeo.com/123062504
Interesting images: "Dawn Sends Sharper Scenes from Ceres" http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/dawn-sends-sharper-scenes-from-ceres
Interesting read: "Homeworld 2 – Hyperspace" http://simonschreibt.de/gat/homeworld-2-hyperspace/
Interesting read: "A Gentle Introduction to Shaders" http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/topics/graphics/gentle-introduction-shaders
Interesting video: "The Pluto System As Seen By New Horizons Spacecraft" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds_OlZnV9qk
Interesting read: "A practical tutorial to hack (and protect) Unity games" http://www.alanzucconi.com/2015/09/02/a-practical-tutorial-to-hack-and-protect-unity-games/
Interesting read: "Parsing Direct3D shader bytecode" http://timjones.tw/blog/archive/2015/09/02/parsing-direct3d-shader-bytecode
Interesting image: "Looking Up at Mars Rover Curiosity in 'Buckskin' Selfie" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=pia19808
Interesting video: "How 'oldschool' graphics work, part 2 - Apple and Atari" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rsycfDliZU
Interesting video: "Women as Reward - Tropes vs Women in Video Games" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC6oxBLXtkU
Interesting read: "Here are the Steam games that sold over 1 million copies in 2015" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/252719/Here_are_the_Steam_games_that_sold_over_1_million_copies_in_2015.php
Interesting read: "Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows Mobility Design" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/DavidDAngelo/20150831/252543/Shovel_Knight_Plague_of_Shadows_Mobility_Design.php
Interesting read: "Procedural Dungeon Generation" https://github.com/adonaac/blog/issues/7
Interesting read: "Classic Postmortem: Deadly Premonition" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/252418/Classic_Postmortem_Deadly_Premonition.php

Interesting links (August 2015)

2015-08-31T18:56:00.002+02:00

Interesting talk: "Witchcraft: The Alchemy of a Crafting-Based Economy" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022800/Witchcraft-The-Alchemy-of-a
Interesting read: "Building Levels Pt. 3 - Generating Levels" http://www.crunchy.com/?q=content/building-levels-pt-3-generating-levels
Interesting video: "FPS Gunplay Comparison - Battlefield vs Call Of Duty vs Counter Strike" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuCqLEqG_yE
Interesting read: "Assassin’s Creed III: The tech behind (or beneath) the action" http://www.fxguide.com/featured/assassins-creed-iii-the-tech-behind-or-beneath-the-action/
Interesting talk: "MARI and the Texturing Pipeline on The Order 1886" https://vimeo.com/136502763

Interesting read: "Bureaucracy - The Digital Antiquarian" http://www.filfre.net/2015/08/bureaucracy/
Interesting read: "Unity Garbage Collection Tips and Tricks" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MeganHughes/20150727/249375/Unity_Garbage_Collection_Tips_and_Tricks.php
Interesting read: "Color in games: An in-depth look at one of game design's most useful tools" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/HermanTulleken/20150729/249761/Color_in_Games.php
Interesting read: "Unity Comes to Linux: Experimental Build Now Available" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/08/26/unity-comes-to-linux-experimental-build-now-available/
Interesting read: "Creating Clouds in Horizon: Zero Dawn" http://80.lv/articles/creating-clouds-in-horizon-zero-dawn/ … & http://www.slideshare.net/guerrillagames/the-realtime-volumetric-cloudscapes-of-horizon-zero-dawn
Interesting read: "The Art of War: Gears of War - Knock Knock" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/ZiPeters/20150821/251625/The_Art_of_War_Gears_of_War__Knock_Knock.php
Interesting read: "The Unity Assertion Library" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/08/25/the-unity-assertion-library/
Interesting read: "Single Player Level Design Pacing and Gameplay Beats - Part 3/3" http://www.worldofleveldesign.com/categories/wold-members-tutorials/peteellis/level-design-pacing-gameplay-beats-part3.php
Interesting video: "Fee 2 Pay (The Jimquisition)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHszeYz5Mi0
Interesting read: "Why adding multiplayer makes game coding twice as much work" http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/08/why-adding-multiplayer-makes-game.html
Interesting talk: "Preserving arcade games" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q_qXGIj-jg
Interesting talk: "Emergent Behavior in Game AI" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEeKXx5Byxc
Interesting read: "Indie Games, Refunds, Terror, and Taking 'No' For an Answer" http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2015/07/indie-games-refunds-terror-and-taking.html
Interesting read: "Single Player Level Design Pacing and Gameplay Beats - Part 2/3" http://www.worldofleveldesign.com/categories/wold-members-tutorials/peteellis/level-design-pacing-gameplay-beats-part2.php
Interesting video: "Game Maker's Toolkit - Arkham Knight and the Scourge of Scale" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvbnc-7Y0fE
Interesting read: "Your target audience doesn’t exist" https://medium.com/steam-spy/your-target-audience-doesn-t-exist-999b78aa77ae
Interesting read: "The Guide to Open World Environment Design" http://80.lv/articles/skyrim-designer-on-building-virtual-worlds/
Interesting video: "How 'oldschool' graphics worked" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfh0ytz8S0k
Interesting read: "Compressing Skeletal Animation Data" http://engineering.riotgames.com/news/compressing-skeletal-animation-data
Interesting read: "Single Player Level Design Pacing and Gameplay Beats - Part 1/3" http://www.worldofleveldesign.com/categories/wold-members-tutorials/peteellis/level-design-pacing-gameplay-beats-part1.php
Interesting read: "New platform Fig adds investing to video game crowdfunding" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/251533/New_platform_Fig_adds_investing_to_video_game_crowdfunding.php
Interesting read: "The Rise of Mobile Tracking Headers" https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2015/08/17/read-our-new-report-on-the-troubling-rise-of-tracking-headers-worldwide2
Interesting talk: "Inside The UFC Animation System" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw47OUed9vE
Interesting read: "21 Free Learning Resources for Game Developers" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/NathanLovato/20150814/251219/21_Free_Learning_Resources_for_Game_Developers.php
Interesting video: "Shenmue Premiere (Dreamcast Express Vol. 1)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM2bkUm1eT8
Interesting talk: "In the Directors Chair (Left 4 Dead) [AI and Games Lectures #4]" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-_fuxytCsM
Interesting free sounds: "Voiceover Pack" http://www.kenney.nl/assets/voiceover-pack
Interesting read: "Unreal vs. Unity – Which engine is better for Mobile Games?" http://www.makinggames.biz/features/unreal-vs-unity-which-engine-is-better-for-mobile-games,8472.html
Interesting read: "Ascii Tutorial Revisited" http://pentahelix.github.io/ASCII-Tutorial-Revisited/
Interesting read: "Starter’s Guide to Game Writing" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/AnatolyShestov/20150724/249460/Starters_Guide_to_Game_Writing.php
Interesting read: "New TPP Leaked Text Reveals Countries' Weakening Resistance to Copyright Maximalist Proposals" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/new-tpp-leaked-text-reveals-weakening-resistance-maximalist-proposals
Interesting video: "Hypothesising Negative Effects of Ubiquitous Modular Mesh Based Level Design" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ubu76gEvM8
Interesting read: "PuniTy – PT Hallway Recreation" http://www.the-outline.com/portfolio/punity-pt-hallway-recreation/
Interestimg read: "How to Become a Game Programmer" http://www.fragmentbuffer.com/how-to-become-a-game-programmer/
Interesting read: "Threading in C#" http://www.albahari.com/threading/
Interesting read: "2D Animation Methods in Unity" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JoeStrout/20150807/250646/2D_Animation_Methods_in_Unity.php
Interesting read: "Why Quake Changed Games Forever" http://www.1up.com/features/why-quake-changed-games-forever

Interesting links (July 2015)

2015-08-11T17:58:00.000+02:00

Interesting read: "Build an inexpensive handheld Arduino color console" http://vilaca.eu/handheld-arduino-color-console/
Interesting read: "CRPG History Abridged - 21 RPGs that brought something new to the table" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/FelipePepe/20150625/244262/CRPG_History_Abridged__21_RPGs_that_brought_something_new_to_the_table.php
Interesting read: "How Concept Art Is Made For Games" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/26/concept-art-guide-thomas-scholes/
Interesting read: "Anatomy of a frame" http://framebunker.com/blog/anatomy-of-a-frame/
Interesting read: "How to do subtitles well – basics and good practices" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/IanHamilton/20150715/248571/How_to_do_subtitles_well__basics_and_good_practices.php
Interesting read: "Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It" http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/
Interesting read: "The reconstruction of Lara Croft" http://www.polygon.com/features/2015/7/10/8925285/the-reconstruction-of-lara-croft-rise-of-the-tomb-raider
Interesting video: "Rise of the Tomb Raider - Bringing Lara to Life" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0DVuWormYg

Interesting video: "The Year of Pluto - New Horizons Documentary" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJxwWpaGoJs
Interesting read: "The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project" http://nothings.org/gamedev/thief_rendering.html
Interesting read: "Deconstructing Night Trap" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/DaveVoyles/20150717/248800/Deconstructing_Night_Trap.php
Interesting repository: "GitHub Extension for Visual Studio" https://github.com/github/VisualStudio
Interesting read: "3D Water Effects: Here's What's Involved" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/FrankKane/20140122/209052/3D_Water_Effects_Heres_Whats_Involved.php
Interesting read: "Why the original No Time To Explain sucked" http://tinybuild.com/why_the_original_no_time_to_explain_sucked
Interesting video: "The Icy Mountains of Pluto 360 spin" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37TNyDHZExA
Interesting video: "Let's Play Deus Ex with Warren Spector, Sheldon Pacotti and Chris Norden" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTVBSxnwiCo
Interesting read: "Dean Hall on his losing battle with the New Zealand government" http://gamasutra.com/view/news/248262/Dean_Hall_on_his_losing_battle_with_the_New_Zealand_government.php
Interesting read: "The Icy Mountains of Pluto" http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-icy-mountains-of-pluto
Interesting video: "Realtime Global Illumination Day/Night Cycle" http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/intermediate/graphics/realtime-gi-day-night-cycle
Interesting read: "How the stb_truetype Anti-Aliased Software Rasterizer v2 Works" http://nothings.org/gamedev/rasterize/
Interesting read: "NASA's New Horizons ‘Phones Home’ Safe after Pluto Flyby" http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasas-new-horizons-phones-home-safe-after-pluto-flyby
Interesting read: "125 things I learned while developing games" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/StevenHonders/20150710/248211/125_things_I_learned_while_developing_games.php
Interesting read: "Lords of the Fallen: Tackling a New Gen Game with an Emerging Studio" http://www.makinggames.biz/features/lords-of-the-fallen-tackling-a-new-gen-game-with-an-emerging-studio,8008.html
Interesting read: "You're on UE4, why do you need an engine programmer?" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/LeszekGodlewski/20150710/247996/quotYoure_on_UE4_why_do_you_need_an_engine_programmerquot.php
Interesting read: "Star Wars Galaxies’ Dynamic World" http://www.raphkoster.com/2015/04/20/swgs-dynamic-world/
Interesting repository: "GLOOME - a commercial-friendly rebrand of the GZDoom engine" https://github.com/marrub--/GLOOME/
Interesting read: "How much do indie PC devs make, anyways? (Part 7)" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/DavidGalindo/20150709/248194/How_much_do_indie_PC_devs_make_anyways_Part_7.php
Interesting talk: "Art Direction Autopsy: X-Com: Enemy Unknown" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyW61bMYqyQ
Interesting read: "Procedural Level Generation in The Dungeoning" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/NickDonnelly/20150629/247283/Procedural_Level_Generation_in_The_Dungeoning.php
Interesting read: "Atmospheric Scattering in The Blacksmith" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/05/28/atmospheric-scattering-in-the-blacksmith/
Interesting read: "Pixel Perfect 2D" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/06/19/pixel-perfect-2d/
Interesting read: "Greenlit in 42 hours - By What Foul Magicks?!" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/SamCoster/20150708/248023/Greenlit_in_42_hours__BY_WHAT_FOUL_MAGICKS.php
Interesting read: "Humble Bundle has a new Game Making Bundle full of Software.Has anybody used any of it?" https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/3cgq7f/humble_bundle_has_a_new_game_making_bundle_full/
Interesting read: "Odallus and NES: a graphic love letter" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/DaniloDias/20150707/247880/Odallus_and_NES_a_graphic_love_letter.php
Interesting read: "How Zelda Gets Lock and Key Puzzles Right" http://howtomakeanrpg.com/a/how-zelda-gets-lock-and-key-puzzles-right.html
Interesting read: "Why I've Said Goodbye to Mobile in Favor of PC" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ThomasHenshell/20140807/222732/Why_Ive_Said_Goodbye_to_Mobile_in_Favor_of_PC.php
Interesting talk: "GDC Classic Postmortem: Yu Suzuki's Shenmue" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2l2qKH85Xk
Interesting read: "The full monty: Orangepixel 10 years of Indie stats" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/PascalBestebroer/20150706/247817/The_full_monty_Orangepixel_10_years_of_Indie_stats.php
Interesting read: "Crafting Mechanics Are Unfit For Purpose" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/07/06/crafting-crap/
Interesting read: "Probability and Games: Damage Rolls" http://www.redblobgames.com/articles/probability/damage-rolls.html
Interesting read: "Creating a Crisp, Engaging Trailer for a Pixel Art Game, From Inception to Reception" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/JoshGe/20150630/247355/Creating_a_Crisp_Engaging_Trailer_for_a_Pixel_Art_Game_From_Inception_to_Reception.php
Interesting read: "The RPG Scrollbars: RPG Vs. Adventure" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/07/06/rpg-adventure-kickstarter/
Interesting talk: "Democratizing Multiplayer Development - Unite Europe 2015" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZbbYXzyXKk
Interesting read: "From Core to Casual – Hard lessons applied casually" http://www.makinggames.biz/features/from-core-to-casual-hard-lessons-applied-casually,8065.html
Interesting read: "Age, Pleasing Apple, and Trying To Climb Out of the Hole" http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2015/06/age-pleasing-apple-and-trying-to-climb.html
Interesting read: "A gentle introduction to shaders in Unity3D" http://www.alanzucconi.com/2015/06/10/a-gentle-introduction-to-shaders-in-unity3d/
Interesting read: "Unity UI Tutorial" http://noobtuts.com/unity/ui
Interesting read: "Next-Gen Cel Shading in Unity 5" http://xdavidleon.tumblr.com/post//next-gen-cel-shading-in-unity-5
Interesting talk: "AI Postmortems: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Darkness II, Skulls of the Shogun" http://gdcvault.com/play/1015610/AI-Postmortems-Kingdoms-of-Amalur
Interesting read: "Journeys In Games: Let’s Talk About Fast Travel" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/26/fast-travel-is-rubbish/
Interesting read: "Report: 24% of games in Steam's Summer Sale generated 94% of revenue" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/247305/Report_24_of_games_in_Steams_Summer_Sale_generated_94_of_revenue.php
Interesting read: "Make your logs interactive and squash bugs faster" http://devmag.org.za/2011/01/25/make-your-logs-interactive-and-squash-bugs-faster/
Interesting read: "How to Learn Pygame" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-learn-pygame--cms-24184
Interesting video: "The Legacy of Super Mario Bros" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_zXpKlccRE

Interesting links (June 2015)

2015-07-01T09:49:00.001+02:00

Interesting read: "The Making of Sensible Soccer" http://readonlymemory.vg/the-making-of-sensible-soccer/
Interesting video: "Adventures in Game Development Chapter 28" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X527iBbYlCk
Interesting read: "GUI To Meet You Two: Free UI Resources for Game Developers" https://pixelsticky.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/free-ui-resources-for-game-developers/
Interesting read: "A Comparison of High-Level Approaches for Speeding Up Pathfinding" http://aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AIIDE/AIIDE10/paper/download/2139/2547
Interesting read: "Porting the Unity Editor to Linux: Stuff I Wish We’d Done Then" http://natoshabard.com/post/122670082502/porting-the-unity-editor-to-linux-stuff-i-wish
Interesting talk: "Unity Roadmap - Unite Europe 2015" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ugiHpo34Ok
Interesting website: "Learn X in Y minutes" http://learnxinyminutes.com/

Interesting read: "Domain name WHOIS anonymity hangs in the balance under ICANN proposal" http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/domain-name-whois-anonymity-hangs-in-the-balance-under-icann-proposal/
Interesting images: "Ceres Spots Continue to Mystify in Latest Dawn Images" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4633
Interesting tool: "Intel Architecture Code Analyzer" https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-architecture-code-analyzer
Interesting free assets: "The Blacksmith Releases: Executable, Assets, Tools and Shaders" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/06/24/releasing-the-blacksmith/
Interesting read: "MonoGame Text Tutorial Series" http://www.gamefromscratch.com/page/MonoGame-Tutorial-Series.aspx
Interesting talk: "GDC Classic Postmortem: Warren Robinett's Adventure" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yINb5Huh0C4
Interesting website: "Unity Roadmap" http://unity3d.com/unity/roadmap/
Interesting read: "Gender Breakdown of Games Showcased at E3 2015" http://feministfrequency.com/2015/06/22/gender-breakdown-of-games-showcased-at-e3-2015/
Interesting website: "docs.GL - OpenGL API Documentation" http://docs.gl/
Interesting website: "Intel Intrinsics Guide" https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/IntrinsicsGuide/
Interesting read: "Procedural Generation of 3D Caves on the GPU" http://www.benjaminmark.dk/portfolio.html
Interesting repository: "Voxelmetric - an open source voxel framework for unity3d" https://github.com/AlexSTV/Voxelmetric
Interesting read: "What languages to localize your game into?" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/JacobStempniewicz/20150619/244998/What_languages_to_localize_your_game_into.php
Interesting video: "Plagiarism on Steam Greenlight - Why This Is A Real Problem" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biyghkEQWTo
Interesting read: "Some things you should know about Steam" https://medium.com/@galyonkin/some-things-you-should-know-about-steam-5eaffcf33218
Interesting read: "Running an Indie Game Store 2015" http://itch.io/blog/2/running-an-indie-game-store-2015
Interesting read: "Reconstruction of the AI in Hotline Miami" http://codeartist.mx/artifcial-intelligence/hotline-miami/
Interesting read: "Arduino Oscilloscope" http://sangorrin.blogspot.com/2015/06/arduino-oscilloscope.html
Interesting read: "The Mysterious 'Lakes' on Saturn's Moon Titan" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4635
Interesting read: "European Copyright Madness: Court Strikes Down Law Allowing Users to Rip Their Own CDs" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/european-copyright-madness-court-strikes-down-law-allowing-users-rip-their-own-cds
Interesting talk: "Art Direction Autopsy: X-Com: Enemy Unknown" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyW61bMYqyQ
Interesting read: "A Flappy Bird clone in Unity (source code provided)" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/246495/Sponsored_A_Flappy_Bird_Clone_in_Unity_source_code_provided.php
Interesting read: "The Way Nintendo Used To Make Mario Levels" http://kotaku.com/the-way-nintendo-used-to-make-mario-levels-1711701916
Interesting talk: "The Asset pipeline for Just Cause 2: Lessons learned" http://gdcvault.com/play/1012232/The-Asset-pipeline-for-Just
Interesting repository: "FRONTIERS" https://github.com/AADProductions/FRONTIERS
Interesting read: "Share tools you could not live without" http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/3a3hnx/share_tools_you_could_not_live_without/
Interesting read: "A Japanese RPG Primer: The Essential 20" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131985/a_japanese_rpg_primer_the_.php?print=1
Interesting video: "Star Wars: Republic Commando Extras: Foley" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIhpLcYCovA
Interesting read: "Game Career Guide 2015" http://dc.ubm-us.com/i/526908-0615-gd-acg-sp
Interesting read: "Evolution of Procedural" http://procworld.blogspot.ca/2015/05/evolution-of-procedural.html
Interesting read: "Games from the Trash: The History of the TRS-80" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/182224/games_from_the_trash_the_history_.php?print=1
Interesting repository: "MemTrace: a memory debugging tool developed internally at Insomniac" https://github.com/deplinenoise/ig-memtrace
Interesting read: "Rendering and simulation in offroad driving game" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/PavelZagrebelnyy/20130613/194247/Rendering_and_simulation_in_offroad_driving_game.php
Interesting read: "'The Witcher 3' Is The Standard To Which New AAA Releases Should Be Held" http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/06/10/the-witcher-3-is-the-standard-to-which-new-aaa-releases-should-be-held/
Interesting read: "The Unlikely Story of Microsoft’s Surprise Minecraft Buyout" http://www.wired.com/2015/06/minecraft-book-excerpt/
Interesting read: "Deconstructing the Xbox Boot ROM" https://mborgerson.com/deconstructing-the-xbox-boot-rom
Interesting images: "Bright Spots Shine in Newest Dawn Ceres Images" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4619
Interesting talk: "Parallelizing the Naughty Dog Engine Using Fibers" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022186/Parallelizing-the-Naughty-Dog-Engine
Interesting read: "State Machine Behaviours Tutorial" https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/5-pre-order-beta/state-machine-behaviours
Interesting read: "Oculus debuts Rift consumer version -- and a Microsoft partnership" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/245913/Oculus_debuts_Rift_consumer_version__and_a_Microsoft_partnership.php
Interesting talk: "The AI of BioShock 2: Methods for Innovation and Iteration" http://gdcvault.com/play/1012379/The-AI-of-BioShock-2
Interesting read: "Unity 5 - Lighting and Rendering Tutorial" http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/graphics/lighting-and-rendering
Interesting read: "Putting voiceover in your game (without ruining everything)" http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/391w2y/putting_voiceover_in_your_game_without_ruining/
Interesting video: "The History of Ken Silverman's Build Engine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8tDBg4pfYk
Interesting read: "Unity 5.1 is here!" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/06/09/unity-5-1-is-here/ … & http://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/unity-5.1/
Interesting read: "Thought Shao Kahn was tough? Here's the future of fighting game AI" http://www.gamesradar.com/future-fighting-game-ai/
Interesting read: "Refunds" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/RobertFearon/20150604/245218/Refunds.php
Interesting read: "Shadowrun: Dragonfall (Director’s Cut) - Game Interface Design" https://anykeytostart.wordpress.com/2015/05/21/shadowrun-dragonfall-directors-cut/
Interesting read: "Should 'The Witcher 3' Feature More People Of Color?" http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2015/06/04/should-the-witcher-3-feature-people-of-color/
Interesting talk: "Antichamber: An Overnight Success, Seven Years In The Making" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOlcB-JxkFw
Interesting talk: "No One Knows About Your Game - Chris Hecker" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc08qQKqZPU
Interesting video: "Introducing the Steam Controller" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fs2Yh1PFwM
Interesting short film: "Black Angel (1980)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L8pHKP-vv4
Interesting read: "TISA: Yet Another Leaked Treaty You've Never Heard Of Makes Secret Rules for the Internet" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/tisa-yet-another-leaked-treaty-youve-never-heard-makes-secret-rules-internet
Interesting image: "Dawn Spirals Closer to Ceres, Returns a New View" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4605
Interesting talk: "Behavior Trees: Three Ways of Cultivating Strong AI" http://gdcvault.com/play/1012416/Behavior-Trees-Three-Ways-of
Interesting video: "Alien's Influence" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYtQmayyDLA
Interesting read: "From Fallout to S.T.A.L.K.E.R." http://www.theoryofgaming.com/from-fallout-to-s-t-a-l-k-e-r/
Interesting read: "Making of Flight of the Amazon Queen - A 20th Anniversary Retrospective" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JohnPassfield/20150601/244740/Making_of_Flight_of_the_Amazon_Queen__A_20th_Anniversary_Retrospective.php
Interesting read: "Creating procedural palettes" http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/palettes/palettes.htm
Interesting video: "Indie Soapbox: Unity, Curiosity, & Cats" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWsTdy_4kso
Interesting read: "The tech arms race in AAA - and why I'm abandoning it" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AndreasPapathanasis/20150601/244768/The_tech_arms_race_in_AAA__and_why_Im_abandoning_it.php
Interesting video: "AI for Real-Time Decisions (nucl.ai Conference)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhX-Sj9n03k
Interesting read: "New Steam Refunds Policy Makes Getting Your Money Back Far Simpler, But Some Devs Are Concerned" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/02/steam-refunds/
Interesting talk: "Dead Island: How to Create a Mega Seller on a Moderate Budget" http://gdcvault.com/play/1016444/Dead-Island-How-to-Create
Interesting read: "Game Design Deep Dive: Darkest Dungeon's Affliction System" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/244480/Game_Design_Deep_Dive_Darkest_Dungeons_Affliction_System.php
Interesting videos: "Upgrading Unity 4 Audio" https://unity3d.com/es/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/5-pre-order-beta/upgrading-4-audio-part1 & https://unity3d.com/es/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/5-pre-order-beta/upgrading-4-audio-part2
Interesting video: "Meet John Romero: One of the Godfathers of the First-Person Shooter" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v_0HD7iOz4
Interesting read: "10 Years of Game Animation" http://www.gameanim.com/2015/05/29/10-years-of-game-animation/
Interesting video: "Quick Demo: Curves and Smooth Shapes (ProBuilder)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNRGdbHbZX8

Interesting links (May 2015)

2015-06-01T10:33:00.000+02:00

Interesting talk: "The Implementation of Rewind in Braid (Jonathan Blow)" http://gdcvault.com/play/1012210/The-Implementation-of-Rewind-in
Interesting read: "Optimizing The Scene and Working With Lighting in Unity 5" http://80.lv/articles/optimizing-scene-working-with-lighting-in-unity5/
Interesting read: "Virtual driving lessons: Learn how to drive via simulator" http://www.makinggames.biz/features/virtual-driving-lessons-learn-how-to-drive-via-simulator,7710.html
Interesting talk: "Designing Assassin's Creed 2" http://gdcvault.com/play/1012306/Designing-Assassin-s-Creed
Interesting read: "Shadow of Mordor - Game Interface Design" https://anykeytostart.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/shadow-of-mordor/
Interesting website: "WebGL Fundamentals" http://webglfundamentals.org/ #gamedev
Interesting read: "Unity voxel block tutorial" http://alexstv.com/index.php/posts/unity-voxel-block-tutorial
Interesting repository: "XInputDotNet. C# wrapper around XInput" https://github.com/speps/XInputDotNet
Interesting read: "Reverse engineering Might and Magic III compression" http://blog.rewolf.pl/blog/?p=1202
Interesting slides: "The Art of First Person Animation for Destiny" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022298/The-Art-of-First-Person

Interesting short film: "KUNG FURY" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg
Interesting short film: "PREDATOR: DARK AGES" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRD8jAk274I
Interesting video: "MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_luhn7TLfWU
Interesting read: "Battlefield Environment Artist on Creating Nature in UE4" http://80.lv/articles/battlefield-environment-artist-on-creating-nature-in-ue4/
Interesting read: "Myst uses emptiness to calm you; its sequel uses emptiness to provoke you" http://www.avclub.com/article/myst-uses-emptiness-calm-you-its-sequel-uses-empti-203238
Interesting talk: "The Terminator Gene (30 minute version)" by @cmuratori https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biuRt_qdcIg
Interesting read: "Lessons learned while fixing memory leaks in our first Unity title" http://richg42.blogspot.com/2015/05/lessons-learned-while-fixing-memory.html
Interesting read: "Fallout 3’s Megaton is one of the better crappy post-apocalypse communities" http://www.avclub.com/article/fallout-3s-megaton-one-better-crappy-post-apocalyp-209310
Interesting read: "Creative Commons issues | Linux Voice" http://www.linuxvoice.com/creative-commons-issues/
Interesting read: "Sega Saturn: how one decision destroyed PlayStation's greatest rival" http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/14/sega-saturn-how-one-decision-destroyed-playstations-greatest-rival
Interesting read: "Which SSD Should You Buy?" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/05/14/best-ssd-2015/
Interesting read: "The Galaxy-Sized Video Game" http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/world-without-end-raffi-khatchadourian
Interesting read: "Armor for Dummies and/or Game Developers" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AnnaJenelius/20150520/243514/Armor_for_Dummies_andor_Game_Developers.php
Interesting read: "Desura is not paying developers, but promises a fix" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/244103/Desura_is_not_paying_developers_but_promises_a_fix.php
Interesting talk: "Physics for Game Programmers : Networking for Physics Programmers" http://gdcvault.com/play/1022195/Physics-for-Game-Programmers-Networking
Interesting read: "Navigating the maze using Environmental Narratives" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/MuhammadAyub/20150511/243135/Navigating_the_maze_using_Environmental_Narratives.php
Interesting repository: "Lunar - A UNIX/Quake3 style command line interface to Unity editor" https://github.com/SpaceMadness/lunar-unity-plugin
Interesting read: "The Making of Monster Mingle" http://www.cowlyowl.com/blog/the-making-of-monster-mingle
Interesting source code: "Unity 4.6 text gradient effect" http://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/2ephku/unity_46_text_gradient_effect/
Interesting read: "The Usability of Bloodborne" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/BenLewisEvans/20150518/243716/The_Usability_of_Bloodborne.php
Interesting read: "Untold Riches: The Intricate Platforming of Tomb Raider" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/187601/?print=1
Interesting read: "Marketing Your Game" http://www.facepunchstudios.com/2015/05/16/marketing-your-game/
Interesting images: "Doomdump: Unseen Treats From Romero’s Archives" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/12/11/john-romero-doom-art-archive/
Interesting videos: "OBBG: Open Block Building Game" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMkT-w6m06QvQaGJKw7vRuPlnYJWczvPj
Interesting read: "Color Grading with Unity and the Asset Store" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/05/12/color-grading-with-unity-and-the-asset-store/
Interesting repository: "Space Engineers" https://github.com/KeenSoftwareHouse/SpaceEngineers
Interesting images: "Ceres Animation Showcases Bright Spots" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4582
Interesting read: "A re-introduction to JavaScript (JS tutorial)" https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/A_re-introduction_to_JavaScript
Interesting images: "NASA’s New Horizons Spots Pluto’s Faintest Known Moons" http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nasa-s-new-horizons-spots-pluto-s-faintest-known-moons
Interesting talk: "[GDC 2015] Animation of The Order: 1886" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6q80hYy7sk
Interesting talk: "GDC 2015: Creating the Open World Kite Real-Time Demo in Unreal Engine 4" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clakekAHQx0
Interesting video: "An Oral History of Star Wars: Republic Commando by its Lead Programmer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywaCm9wrKqM
Interesting read: "Squeezing Performance out of your Unity Gear VR Game" https://developer.oculus.com/blog/squeezing-performance-out-of-your-unity-gear-vr-game/
Interesting read: "Fixing edge sparkles - John Carmack" https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1650384048529439&id=100006735798590
Interesting repository: "UnityConsole, an easy-to-use developer console for Unity 5" https://github.com/Wenzil/UnityConsole
Interesting read: "Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/ItayKeren/20150511/243083/Scroll_Back_The_Theory_and_Practice_of_Cameras_in_SideScrollers.php
Interesting read: "Making gameplay stand out against rich backgrounds" http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/making-gameplay-stand-out-against-rich.html
Interesting read: "The Secrets Of Cloth Simulation In Alan Wake" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132771/the_secrets_of_cloth_simulation_in_.php?print=1
Interesting slides: "Improving the NavMesh Pipeline in Sunset Overdrive" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022274/Sunset-City-Express-Improving-the
Interesting read: "Enemy design and enemy AI for melee combat systems" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/BartVossen/20150504/242543/Enemy_design_and_enemy_AI_for_melee_combat_systems.php
Interesting read: "The RPG Scrollbars: The Worst Parts Of RPGs, Vol I" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/05/11/worst-rpg-moments/
Interesting read: "Tips for Improving isometric view" http://exiin.com/blog/tips-for-improving-isometric-view/
Interesting read: "8 things I learned making Extrasolar" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/LucasJohnson/20150505/242637/8_things_I_learned_making_Extrasolar.php
Interesting read: "Why indies should care less about financial independence" http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/why-indies-should-care-less-about.html
Interesting image: "NASA's Curiosity Rover Views Serene Sundown on Mars" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4581
Interesting images: "Simon Stålenhag’s Retro Sci-Fi Images of a Dystopian Swedish Countryside" http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/05/simon-stalenhag-retro-sci-fi/
Interesting video: "Apollo 16 lunar rover 'Grand Prix' in HD" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o3Oi9JWsyM
Interesting talk: "Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022243/Scroll-Back-The-Theory-and
Interesting read: "Postmortem: Moon Studios' heartfelt Ori and the Blind Forest" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/242530/Postmortem_Moon_Studios_heartfelt_Ori_and_the_Blind_Forest.php
Interesting read: "JS1k post mortem – Train Window" http://birdgames.nl/2015/05/js1k-post-mortem-train-window/
Interesting read: "Implementation - Hexagonal grids" http://www.redblobgames.com//grids/hexagons/implementation.html
Interesting source code: "Adjustable Character Spacing (uGUI)" http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/adjustable-character-spacing-free-script.288277/
Interesting repository: "Fiber Tasking Lib - A library for enabling task-based multithreading" https://github.com/RichieSams/FiberTaskingLib
Interesting talk: "The Level Design of Gone Home" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022112/Level-Design-in-a-Day
Interesting read: "The level art tools for Swords & Soldiers II" http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-level-art-tools-for-swords-soldiers.html
Interesting read: "Tuesdays are for #unitytips" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/05/05/tuesdays-are-for-unitytips/
Interesting read: "C# memory and performance tips for Unity" http://www.somasim.com/blog/2015/04/csharp-memory-and-performance-tips-for-unity/
Interesting read: "Tengami: The Art of a Folding World" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/JenniferSchneidereit/20150501/242455/Tengami_The_Art_of_a_Folding_World.php
Interesting source code "to read and use .mo files for internationalization" http://number-none.com/blow/code/mo_file/index.html
Interesting read: "Lightmapping in Unity 5" http://sassybot.com/blog/lightmapping-in-unity-5/
Interesting slides: "AI in the Awesomepocalypse - Creating the Enemies of Sunset Overdrive" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1021781/AI-in-the-Awesomepocalypse-Creating
Interesting read: "Implications of a global market on random success" http://positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2015/04/29/implications-of-a-global-market-on-random-success/
Interesting image: "Rock Spire in 'Spirit of St. Louis Crater' on Mars" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=pia19393
Interesting video: "How to Upgrade Your PS4 Hard Drive with Knives" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nav0VXdCrw
Interesting video: "Stop the trolls: Women fight online harassment" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGrlk8_kevI
Interesting talk: "John D. Carmack at UT Dallas" https://vimeo.com/126275510
Interesting read: "The Shape That Unified Mass Effect’s Look" http://ctrl500.com/art/the-shape-that-unified-mass-effects-look/ #gameart
Interesting repository: "SQLite4Unity3d - SQLite made easy for Unity3d" https://github.com/codecoding/SQLite4Unity3d

Interesting links (April 2015)

2015-05-01T10:14:00.003+02:00

Interesting talk: "On Trying to Make Idea-Rich Games (Jonathan Blow)" https://vimeo.com/125149688
Interesting read: "Where is your mod, now?: How Valve's paid mod program imploded in four days" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/242106/Where_is_your_mod_now_How_Valves_paid_mod_program_imploded_in_four_days.php
Interesting repository: "l1-path-finder: A fast planner for 2D uniform cost grids" https://github.com/mikolalysenko/l1-path-finder
Interesting talk: "Daniel Cook: Game Design Theory I Wish I had Known When I Started" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwPe3OHR04c
Interesting read: "Optimizing Unity Renderer Part 3: Fixed Function Removal" http://aras-p.info/blog/2015/04/27/optimizing-unity-renderer-3-fixed-function-removal/
Interesting read: "No, MS-DOS games weren't widescreen: Tips on correcting aspect ratio" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/FelipePepe/20150423/241730/No_MSDOS_games_werent_widescreen_Tips_on_correcting_aspect_ratio.php
Interesting talk: "Solving Visibility and Streaming in the The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with Umbra 3" http://gdcvault.com/play/1020686/Solving-Visibility-and-Streaming-in
Interesting read: "On ‘Ugly Games’" http://mikebithell.tumblr.com/post/97988824627/on-ugly-games

Interesting read: "How to Tune a Simulation Game" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RobertZubek/20150424/241878/How_to_Tune_a_Simulation_Game.php
Interesting talk: "Dynamic porting of Dying Light for Linux/SteamOS" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFdgOBniQB4
Interesting read: "Why Won’t Artists Accept Revenue-Share/Royalties?!" http://alicebessoni.tumblr.com/post/117118471190/why-wont-artists-accept-revenue-share-royalties
Interesting read: "How to generate a procedural tree in Unity 3D" http://www.wasabimole.com/procedural-tree/how-to-generate-a-procedural-tree-in-unity-3d/
Interesting read: "You’re NOT fired: The story of Amstrad’s amazing CPC 464" http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/12/archaeologic_amstrad_cpc_464
Interesting image: "Mars Orbiter Views Curiosity Rover in 'Artist's Drive'" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4563
Interesting read: "Spain’s Ominous Gag Law" http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/opinion/spains-ominous-gag-law.html?smid=tw-share&_r=4
Interesting video: "Item degradation in the Long Dark" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s3bvMaEta4
Interesting read: "If you build it: Colossal Order on Cities: Skylines modding" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/241275/If_you_build_it_Colossal_Order_on_Cities_Skylines_modding.php
Interesting read: "Game mods can now be sold on the Steam Workshop for real money" http://gamasutra.com/view/news/241836/Game_mods_can_now_be_sold_on_the_Steam_Workshop_for_real_money.php
Interesting talk: "Designing Over the Top - Saints Row: The Third Postmortem" http://gdcvault.com/play/1015748/Designing-Over-the-Top-Saints
Interesting read: "The Republique Remastered in Unity 5 Learn Project is here!" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/04/17/the-republique-remastered-in-unity-5-learn-project-is-here/
Interesting video: "How Design Trends Ruin Great Games" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCmmYF4rOwo
Interesting talk: "Streaming Open World Pathfinding" http://gdcvault.com/play/375/Streaming-Open-World (audio) & http://aarmstrong.org/journal/2008/02/28/gdc08-notes-streaming-open-world-pathfinding (notes)
Interesting talk: "The Creation of SAINTS ROW's Open World..." http://gdcvault.com/play/566/The-Creation-of-SAINTS-ROW (audio) & http://gdcvault.com/play/565/The-Creation-of-SAINTS-ROW (slides)
Interesting read: "CRT Simulation in Super Win the Game" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/KylePittman/20150420/241442/CRT_Simulation_in_Super_Win_the_Game.php
Interesting talk: "Level Design in a Day: The Worlds of Sunset Overdrive" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022114/Level-Design-in-a-Day
Interesting read: "A Jedi Saga" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/RaphKoster/20150417/241406/A_Jedi_Saga.php
Interesting repository: "AwesomeBump" (generate normal, height, specular or ambient occlusion textures...) https://github.com/kmkolasinski/AwesomeBump
Interesting talk: "The Dawn of Mobile VR" keynote by John Carmack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB_u3FvUTQc
Interesting read: "Postmortem: Ion Storm's Deus Ex - By Warren Spector" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131523/postmortem_ion_storms_deus_ex.php?print=1
Interesting read: "Deconstructing feedback" http://mikebithell.tumblr.com/post/109479470692/deconstructing-feedback
Interesting read: "The problem with growing download sizes" http://www.pcgamer.com/the-problem-with-growing-download-sizes/
Interesting read: "Videogame Publishers: No Preserving Abandoned Games, Even for Museums and Archives..." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/videogame-publishers-no-preserving-abandoned-games-even-museums-and-archives
Interesting read: "Reverse Engineering WipEout (PSX)" http://phoboslab.org/log/2015/04/reverse-engineering-wipeout-psx
Interesting read: "Implementing an Open World Isometric Game Engine Based on a Block World Design" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/BenediktSVogler/20150414/241032/Implementing_an_open_world_isometric_game_engine_based_on_a_block_world_design.php
Interesting read: "Explosions In Vlambeer’s Nuclear Throne" http://ctrl500.com/game-design/explosions-in-vlambeers-nuclear-throne/
Interesting read: "The swampy world of porting and the art of anticipation" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/EduardoGarabito/20150415/240698/The_swampy_world_of_porting_and_the_art_of_anticipation.php
Interesting talk: "Designing for Exploration and Choice in Firewatch" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022108/Designing-for-Exploration-and-Choice
Interesting read: "Voice actor hiring cheat sheet" http://mikebithell.tumblr.com/post/104997317017/voice-actor-hiring-cheat-sheet
Interesting read: "Getting greenlit in 8 days" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JamieKavanagh/20150410/240659/Getting_greenlit_in_8_days.php
Interesting talk: "Destiny: Six Years in the Making - GDC 2015" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU92a5pKV6k
Interesting video: "Five Golden Rules For Steam Early Access Games (The Jimquisition)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tygMqQNNWUo
Interesting images: "The Order 1886: Model Breakdowns" http://www.artofpatrickstone.com/theorder.html
Interesting talk: "Fast Code, Game Programming, and Other Thoughts... (Michael Abrash - 2000)" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1016641/It-s-Great-to-be
Interesting read: "Minimum Sustainable Success" http://www.lostgarden.com/2015/04/minimum-sustainable-success.html
Interesting read: "Media Training" http://mikebithell.tumblr.com/post/114400574077/media-training
Interesting video: "Crawl Art Process Vid 1" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDjIpsGtr8s
Interesting read: "Behind the Scenes of Hearts of Iron 4" http://blog.digitaltutors.com/behind-the-scenes-of-hearts-of-iron-4/
Interesting read: "A Guide to Launching Indie Games, Part Three: Getting Press" http://www.binpress.com/blog/2015/04/06/guide-launching-indie-games-part-three-getting-press/
Interesting video: "Super Mario World Credits Warp Explained" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAHXK2wut_I
Interesting read: "Anatomy of a Program in Memory" http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/anatomy-of-a-program-in-memory/
Interesting read: "How I hacked into the Warface in-game protocol" https://stackedit.io/viewer#!provider=gist&gistId=b9a1852a0a17e334f041&filename=wfre
Interesting talk: "Procedural Level Design in Eldritch" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022110/Level-Design-in-a-Day
Interesting read: "Getting Started With Unreal Engine 4" http://www.tomlooman.com/getting-started-with-unreal-engine-4/
Interesting read: "Developing UX Practices at Epic Games" http://celiahodent.com/ux-practices-epic-games/
Interesting talk: "Divinity: Original Sin Postmortem- Success Stories and Lessons Learned" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1021934/Divinity-Original-Sin-Postmortem-Success
Interesting read: "AAA game control in an indie’s evening" http://mikebithell.tumblr.com/post/83244226608/aaa-game-control-in-an-indies-evening
Interesting source code: "New UI and line drawing" http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/new-ui-and-line-drawing.253772/
Interesting repository: "UnitySteer - Steering, obstacle avoidance and path following" https://github.com/ricardojmendez/UnitySteer
Interesting read: "Implementation of A*" http://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/implementation.html
Interesting read: "Where do I start if I want to develop for consoles?" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/RobertFearon/20150406/240485/Where_do_I_start_if_I_want_to_develop_for_consoles.php
Interesting slides: "Streaming in Sunset Overdrive's Open World (Elan Ruskin)" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022269/Streaming-in-Sunset-Overdrive-s
Interesting read: "The Poor Man's Character Controller" http://et1337.com/2015/04/03/poor-mans-character-controller/
Interesting read: "Teaching Awesomenaut’s AI Where To Jump" http://ctrl500.com/tech/teaching-the-ai-to-find-a-path-in-awesomenauts/
Interesting read: "The Nature of Code" http://natureofcode.com/book/introduction/
Interesting talk: "Building Fear in Alien: Isolation" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1021852/Building-Fear-in-Alien
Interesting read: "Get Rid of the Mini-map" http://www.popmatters.com/post/153477-/
Interesting read: "NASA's Opportunity Mars Rover Passes Marathon Distance" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4521
Interesting read: "Parsing the Science of Interstellar with Physicist Kip Thorne" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/11/28/parsing-the-science-of-interstellar-with-physicist-kip-thorne/
Interesting images: "Since The 1980s, Jeff Bridges Has Done Something Incredible On The Set Of All His Movies" http://www.rsvlts.com/2014/08/21/since-the-1980s-jeff-bridges-has-done-something-incredible-on-the-set-of-all-his-movies/
Interesting talk: "Classic Game Postmortem: Star Control (Paul Reiche III, Fred Ford, Rob Dubbin)" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1021863/Classic-Game-Postmortem-Star
Interesting read: "Game Design Essentials: 20 Real-World Games" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/134358/game_design_essentials_20_.php?print=1
Interesting video: "A Guide to New EU VAT Regulations for Indie Authors: ALLi Insights Seminar Feb 2015" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU0cH5t7fL4
Interesting talk: "Classic Game Postmortem: Adventure (Warren Robinett)" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1021860/Classic-Game-Postmortem
Interesting repository: "stb single-file public domain libraries for C/C++" https://github.com/nothings/stb
Interesting read: "Is a New EU Tax Law Screwing Over Indie Developers?" http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/12/17/new-eu-tax-law-screwing-indie-developers
Interesting talk: "Classic Game Postmortem: Loom (Brian Moriarty)" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1021862/Classic-Game-Postmortem
Interesting slides: "Rendering the World of Far Cry 4" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022235/Rendering-the-World-of-Far
Interesting read: "Have you done your gamedev legal 'spring cleaning' yet?" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ZacharyStrebeck/20150330/239972/Have_you_done_your_gamedev_legal_quotspring_cleaningquot_yet.php

Interesting links (March 2015)

2015-04-02T09:51:00.003+02:00

Interesting talk: "Animating Ori and the Blind Forest" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1021791/Animation-Bootcamp-The-Animation-Process
Interesting slides: "Adaptive Virtual Texture Rendering in Far Cry 4" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1021761/Adaptive-Virtual-Texture-Rendering-in
Interesting read: "Particles spawned at mesh vertices" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/MarekStromsky/20150327/239861/Particles_spawned_at_mesh_vertices_Recreating_inFamous_Second_Son_neon_run_effect_in_Unity3D.php
Interesting video: "Sumoman - Behind the Scenes - Sound" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZzzCivMbZ8
Interesting read: "Principles of an Indie Game Bottom Feeder" http://gamasutra.com/view/feature/135065/principles_of_an_indie_game_bottom_.php?print=1
Interesting read: "World of Thieves goes Open World" http://home.oneiricworlds.com/2014/02/world-of-thieves-goes-open-world.html

Interesting video: "Ross's Top 25 Most Anticipated Games!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa29EM-YTwo
Interesting short animated film: "TIE Fighter" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_CP4SuoTU
Interesting read: "Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - Investment Chapter" https://wikileaks.org/tpp-investment/press.html
Interesting read: "Game Design Deep Dive: Traffic systems in Cities: Skylines" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/239534/Game_Design_Deep_Dive_Traffic_systems_in_Cities_Skylines.php
Interesting slides: "Lighting in Unity" https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1Ca8GQ0-oAIQnhaeDBNSFZnNlE/ & https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1Ca8GQ0-oAIdDV1dEd6d2JEMDQ/
Interesting videos: "Unity 2D RPG Tutorial" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_4rJ_acBNMH3SExL3yIOzaqj5IP5CJLC
Interesting read: "Let's get real about the financial expectations of 'going indie'" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/237046/Lets_get_real_about_the_financial_expectations_of_going_indie.php
Interesting read: "Top Tips: 10 things you didn't know you could do with Unity" http://www.develop-online.net/tools-and-tech/top-tips-10-things-you-didn-t-know-you-could-do-with-unity/0204730
Interesting read: "Steam Platform Analysis: The Discovery Update (fresh stats from Valve)" https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/309469/steam_platform_analysis_the_discovery_update/
Interesting talk: "DOs and DON'Ts of Honest Puzzle Game Design" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zVjdEhHmGo
Interesting video: "SoA Tech: Round Voxel Planets" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJr4QlDxEME
Interesting read: "Quaternions: Not Satan" http://blog.preoccupiedgames.com/quaternions-not-satan/
Interesting Image: "This is how the Unity 5.0 WheelCollider works" http://s16.postimg.org/lnb55l3th/WC_info_001.jpg
Interesting read: "What many indies are doing wrong" http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com.es/2015/03/what-many-indies-are-doing-wrong.html
Interesting read: "XNA is no more, as the phoenix rises from the ashes" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/SimonJackson/20150319/239169/XNA_is_no_more_as_the_phoenix_rises_from_the_ashes.php
Interesting video: "Half-Life 2's Invisible Tutorial" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMggqenxuZc
Interesting read: "Moving in Unity" http://angryant.com/2014/03/07/Moving-in-Unity/
Interesting public domain sprites: "Roguelike/RPG pack (1,700+ tiles)" http://opengameart.org/content/roguelikerpg-pack-1700-tiles
Interesting read: "The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty" http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-gnu-manifesto-turns-thirty
Interesting images: "Bladerunner Model Shop" http://imgur.com/a/mv8qf
Interesting read: "Windows 10 to make the Secure Boot alt-OS lock out a reality" http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/windows-10-to-make-the-secure-boot-alt-os-lock-out-a-reality/
Interesting read: "The Sound Design of inFamous Second Son: Concrete Powers" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RevDrBradleyMeyer/20150316/238805/The_Sound_Design_of_inFamous_Second_Son_Concrete_Powers.php
Interesting read: "Bake Your Own 3D Dungeons With Procedural Recipes" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/bake-your-own-3d-dungeons-with-procedural-recipes--gamedev-14360
Interesting read: "John Carmack's .plan Archive" http://atrophied.co.uk/read/john-carmacks-plan-archive
Interesting read: "Your First Game" http://alextrowers.blogspot.com/2015/03/your-first-game.html … #gamedev #gamedesign
Interesting read: "Colormath Basics for Shaders" http://www.laurenscorijn.com/articles/colormath-basics
Interesting read: "What is Twine? (For Developers)" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/LizEngland/20150313/238709/
Interesting read: "Humanoid Mecanim Overview" http://mattrifiedgames.blogspot.com/2015/02/humanod-mecanim-overview.html
Interesting free sounds: "10GB+ of high-quality game audio" http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/2ynqyo/10gb_of_highquality_game_audio_free_download/
Interesting kickstarter: "Indies Crash E3: Get Indie Game Developers Into E3!" https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/347711/indies-crash-e3-get-indie-game-developers-into-e3
Interesting read: "Getting Started in Unity 5.0" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/03/16/getting-started-in-unity-5-0/
Interesting talk: "Ahead of the Curve: The SpaceChem Postmortem (Zach Barth)" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1017983/Ahead-of-the-Curve-The
Interesting read: "10 seminal game postmortems every developer should read" http://gamasutra.com/view/news/238773/10_seminal_game_postmortems_every_developer_should_read.php
Interesting talk: "The Art of Firewatch (GDC 2015)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYnS3kKTcGg
Interesting video: "Ride Along - Cosmodrome (Destiniy)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcdw3LQAsCg
Interesting read: "Procedural sky system (Firewatch)" http://blog.camposanto.com/post/112703721804/this-blog-post-is-an-in-detail-explanation-of-part
Interesting list: "The Best of the Best of Manga: Shonen Jump's 20 Best Sellers of All-Time" http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/02/26/the-best-of-the-best-of-manga-shonen-jumps-20-best-sellers-of-all-time/
Interesting read: "Gmic line-art colorization" http://www.davidrevoy.com/article240/gmic-line-art-colorization
Interesting read: "Your stack of shame is a lantern for your future, and a gift to the industry" http://www.polygon.com/2014/1/6/5279722/steam-sale-stack-of-shame
Interesting video: "Road to Eternity Part 1: A preview of the documentary of the making of Pillars of Eternity" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KnQl-wbccI
Interesting read: "Unity 5 global illumination tutorial" http://jayanam.com/unity-5-global-illumination-tutorial/
Interesting read: "Random Thoughts on New Explicit Graphics APIs" http://aras-p.info/blog/2015/03/13/thoughts-on-explicit-graphics-apis/
Interesting read: "Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Graphics Study" http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/03/10/deus-ex-human-revolution-graphics-study/
Interesting read: "Screen Space Reflections in Unity 5" http://www.kode80.com/blog/2015/03/11/screen-space-reflections-in-unity-5/index.html … and repository: https://github.com/kode80/kode80SSR
Interesting read: "Understanding Your Kickstarter Liabilities" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DanRogers/20150309/238279/Understanding_Your_Kickstarter_Liabilities.php
Interesting read: "'T.M.I.': Preserving the suspension of disbelief through ambiguity" http://gamasutra.com/view/news/238091/TMI_Preserving_the_suspension_of_disbelief_through_ambiguity.php
Interesting read: "In the age of free AAA game engines, are we still relevant?" http://jmonkeyengine.org/301602/in-the-age-of-free-aaa-game-engines-are-we-still-relevant/
Interesting repository: "PhysX Source on GitHub" https://developer.nvidia.com/physx-source-github
Interesting read: "'Hacking' in games" https://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=2711.0
Interesting videos: "Double Fine Adventure!" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIhLvue17Sd7F6pU2ByRRb0igiI-WKk3D
Interesting slides: "GDC 2015 Papers" http://blogs.wefrag.com/skaven/2015/03/03/gdc-2015-papers/
Interesting video: "Gabe Newell talks Steam Machines, Free Source 2.0 Engine, the growth of PCs..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-ayB6U3l2g
Interesting videos: "Unreal Engine 4 MenuFlow Tutorial" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3hM7_RDaHMynZhN3eXYEguGJoxlUTpDf
Interesting video: "ProBuilder: Seamless Level Design For Unity" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjqx6cKUepc
Interesting videos: "Watch a series of seven brilliant lectures by Richard Feynman" http://io9.com/watch-a-series-of-seven-brilliant-lectures-by-richard-f-5894600
Interesting read: "From blue sketch to digital in Krita" http://www.davidrevoy.com/article239/cleaning-blue-lines-sketch-in-krita
Interesting read: "Absurd Automated Notices Illustrate Abuse of DMCA Takedown Process" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/absurd-automated-notices-illustrate-abuse-dmca-takedown-process
Interesting talk: "Carmack on Mobile VR - 2015 GDC" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNAmAxT7-qs
Interesting read: "Valve’s Vive VR Prototype Is Better Than The Oculus Rift’s" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/03/05/vive-gdc-review/
Interesting read: "Introducing open revenue sharing" http://itchio.tumblr.com/post/112709605589/introducing-open-revenue-sharing
Interesting post: "The Order: 1886 Art Dump" http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=149706
Interesting read: "Level Design In a Day: An expert roundtable Q&A" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/237110/Level_Design_In_a_Day_An_expert_roundtable_QA.php
Interesting news: "Source 2 Is Actually Free, Like, For Free" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/03/04/source-2-is-actually-free-like-for-free/
Interesting read: "Water interaction model for boats in video games" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/237528/Water_interaction_model_for_boats_in_video_games.php
Interesting post: "[Official] Unity 5 Officially Available via Torrent!" http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/official-unity-5-officially-available-via-torrent-please-tell-us-what-you-think.306495/
Interesting news: "Unity 5 released with upgrades, full-featured free version" http://gamasutra.com/view/news/237853/Unity_5_released_with_upgrades_fullfeatured_free_version.php
Interesting read: "Unreal Engine 4 For Unity Developers" https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/GettingStarted/FromUnity/index.html
Interesting read: "Unity vs UE4, or why I went with Unity" http://codepirate.ninja/?p=30
Interesting news: "Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free" https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/ue4-is-free
Interesting read: "Keep the Guns Rolling: Modeling for Overkill 3 and Optimising Workflow" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/PetrRuzicka/20150225/237327/Keep_the_Guns_Rolling_Modeling_for_Overkill_3_and_Optimising_Workflow.php
Interesting read: "Why the rendering in The Order 1886 rocks" http://c0de517e.blogspot.com/2015/02/why-rendering-in-order-1886-rocks.html
Interesting slides: "Crafting a Next-Gen Material Pipeline for The Order: 1886" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020162/Crafting-a-Next-Gen-Material

Interesting links (February 2015)

2015-03-01T09:51:00.001+01:00

Interesting dev diary: "Remastering Republique:The Journey to Unity 5" http://unity3d.com/journey-to-unity5-republique
Interesting read: "The Psychology of Immersion in Video Games" http://www.psychologyofgames.com/2010/07/the-psychology-of-immersion-in-video-games/
Interesting read: "Criteria Used to Analyze Classic Arcade Video Games" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/JerryMomoda/20150225/237246/Criteria_Used_to_Analyze_Classic_Arcade_Video_Games.php
Interesting read: "Video games on Kickstarter: Past, Present and Future" http://www.makinggames.biz/features/video-games-on-kickstarter-past-present-and-future,7478.html
Interesting video: "Sid Meier, Jake Solomon talk design philosophy in Starships" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYMcmXrwZ0k
Interesting read: "From Indie Dev to CEO: 10 Indie Pitfalls" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/NickHatter/20150202/235482/From_Indie_Dev_to_CEO_10_Indie_Pitfalls.php
Interesting read: "Art Direction Bootcamp: An expert roundtable Q&A" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/236938/Art_Direction_Bootcamp_An_expert_roundtable_Qamp_A.php

Interesting read: "Five Things I Didn’t Get About Making Video Games (Until I Did It)" http://kotaku.com/five-things-i-didn-t-get-about-making-video-games-unti-1687510871
Interesting read: "DirectX 12 - DirectX Developer Blog" http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/archive/2014/03/20/directx-12.aspx
Interesting talk: "There and Back Again: Koji Igarashi's Metroidvania Tale" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020822/There-and-Back-Again-Koji
Interesting read: "The History of Civilization" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/129947/?print=1
Interesting image: "Curiosity Self-Portrait at 'Mojave' Site on Mount Sharp" http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/msl/pia19142/
Interesting read: "The Sad Story Behind A Dead PC Game That Can't Come Back" http://kotaku.com/the-sad-story-behind-a-dead-pc-game-that-cant-come-back-1688358811
Interesting image: "'Bright Spot' on Ceres Has Dimmer Companion" http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/dawn/bright-spot-on-ceres-has-dimmer-companion/index.html
Interesting read: "Crunched: has the games industry really stopped exploiting its workforce?" http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/18/crunched-games-industry-exploiting-workforce-ea-spouse-software
Interesting read: "Game Design Essentials: 20 Unusual Control Schemes" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2844/game_design_essentials_20_unusual_.php?print=1
Interesting read: "Easy volumetric explosion in Unity3D" https://stevencraeynest.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/easy-volumetric-explosion-in-unity3d/
Interesting read: "Tech Analysis: The Order: 1886" http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-the-order-1886-tech-analysis
Interesting read: "Getting started with Krita" http://www.davidrevoy.com/article185/tutorial-getting-started-with-krita-1-3-bw-portrait
Interesting read: "Landsat Goes Over the Top: A Long View of the Arctic" http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ArcticLongSwath/
Interesting read: "Logic Noise: 8-bits of Glorious Sounds" http://hackaday.com/2015/02/17/logic-noise-8-bits-of-glorious-sounds/
Interesting read: "Game Design Essentials: 20 Open World Games" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1902/game_design_essentials_20_open_.php?print=1
Interesting read: "The Poor Man's Voxel Engine" http://et1337.com/2015/02/18/the-poor-mans-voxel-engine/
Interesting news: "Epic Games offers up $5 million in Unreal Dev Grants" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/236807/Epic_Games_offers_up_5_million_in_Unreal_Dev_Grants.php
Interesting read: "Game Design Essentials: 20 RPGs" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132457/game_design_essentials_20_rpgs.php?print=1
Interesting read: "Creating a More Dynamic Battlefield" http://www.makinggames.biz/features/creating-a-more-dynamic-battlefield,7460.html
Interesting read: "Working with Physically-Based Shading: a Practical Approach" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/02/18/working-with-physically-based-shading-a-practical-approach/
Interesting read: "A tool for analysing colour schemes" http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-tool-for-analysing-colour-schemes.html
Interesting read: "Programmer, Interrupted" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/190891/programmer_interrupted.php?print=1
Interesting read: "Pollen VR: Developing high-end visuals with Unity 5" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/02/16/pollen-vr-developing-high-end-visuals-with-unity-5/
Interesting talk: "From Bedroom to Attic: Making Prince of Persia (Jordan Mechner)" https://vimeo.com/53918011
Interesting video: "The Making of Grim Fandango Remastered: Episode 1" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNhE7zxJymE
Interesting read: "The Importance of Internal Consistency, Part II" http://www.theoryofgaming.com/importance-internal-consistency-part-ii/
Interesting read: "The Importance of Internal Consistency" http://www.theoryofgaming.com/importance-internal-consistency/
Interesting read: "When crowdfunding reveals the realities of game dev budgets" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/195733/When_crowdfunding_reveals_the_realities_of_game_dev_budgets.php
Interesting read: "A detailed look at ibb & obb’s PC sales results for 2014" http://ibbandobb.com/ibb-obbs-pc-sales-results-for-2014/
Interesting video: "Name Of The Game Part 2 of 2" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cPc-ZHJibs
Interesting read: "Digital archaeology: How Double Fine, Disney, LucasArts and Sony resurrected Grim Fandango" http://www.polygon.com/2015/1/27/7921837/grim-fandango-remastered-interview-double-fine-disney-lucasfilm-sony
Interesting read: "Building a cheat-bot" https://medium.com/message/building-a-cheat-bot-f848f199e76bv
Interesting read: "Game Design Deep Dive: The save system of Alien: Isolation" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/235104/Game_Design_Deep_Dive_The_save_system_of_Alien_Isolation.php
Interesting read: "Basics of Asset Creation in Blender: Take a Model from 3D to Game-Ready" http://blog.digitaltutors.com/basics-asset-creation-blender-take-model-3d-game-ready/
Interesting read: "The creation of Snowdrop Engine" http://www.makinggames.biz/features/the-creation-of-snowdrop-engine,7198.html
Interesting read: "Loopy Design Encourages Longer Play Sessions" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/GregoryCampbell/20150209/236010/Loopy_Design_Encourages_Longer_Play_Sessions.php
Interesting slides: "Custom Pixels - rendering more with Unity" https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_JHp-k4bDc9WhcMlC9hAPSGj_0UaJh5DBpSlLkwI74M/edit#slide=id.g5dea027fa_00
Interesting read: "Extending Unity 5 rendering pipeline: Command Buffers" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/02/06/extending-unity-5-rendering-pipeline-command-buffers/
Interesting talk: "Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures (Chandler Carruth)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHNmRkzxHWs
Interesting read: "The art of the tutorial: When to hold a player's hand, when to let it go" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/235148/The_art_of_the_tutorial_When_to_hold_a_players_hand_when_to_let_it_go.php
Interesting read: "Renaming Serialized Fields" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/02/03/renaming-serialized-fields/
Interesting videos: "Project: 2D Roguelike - Learn how to make a 2D Roguelike game" http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/projects/2d-roguelike
Interesting read: "Improving game localizations" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/PauloBelato/20150205/235825/Improving_game_localizations.php
Interesting repository: "tinyobjloader - Tiny but poweful single file wavefront obj loader written in C++" https://github.com/syoyo/tinyobjloader
Interesting video: "Creating a Basic Platformer Game" http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/live-training-archive/creating-a-basic-platformer-game
Interesting video: "The Order 1886 | Behind the Game Engine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZx9gPo3tws
Interesting read: "The In-game Economics of Ultima Online" http://www.mine-control.com/zack/uoecon/uoecon.html
Interesting read: "The World of DRM-free Digital Comic Books" http://tidbits.com/article/14741
Interesting read: "Introducing the Raspberry Pi 2" http://hackaday.com/2015/02/02/introducing-the-raspberry-pi-2/
Interesting images: "Asteroid That Flew Past Earth Has Moon" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4459
Interesting video: "Hellblade Development Diary 8: Prototyping Phase" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvpD3eM9rJo
Interesting read: "Game Design Essentials: 20 Mysterious Games" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131892/game_design_essentials_20_.php?print=1
Interesting read: "Creating the World of WildStar" http://www.makinggames.biz/features/creating-the-world-of-wildstar,5010.html
Interesting video: "Making Your First Game: Launching! - How to Market Your Game" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxsEimJ_3bM
Interesting page: "The Big List Of Postmortems" http://www.pixelprospector.com/the-big-list-of-postmortems/
Interesting read: "'Living Games' or an Alternative to Early Access" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JoshBycer/20150203/235573/quotLiving_Gamesquot_or_an_Alternative_to_Early_Access.php
Interesting video: "Question Session - Level Design (Hardy LeBel)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEhdyzjVVqk
Interesting read: "The Game Outcomes Project, Part 4: Crunch Makes Games Worse" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/PaulTozour/20150120/234443/
Interesting read: "Explorable Explanations" http://blog.ncase.me/explorable-explanations/
Interesting post: "The Man Behind The Curtain" (commercial games' source code releases) http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/the-man-behind-the-curtain
Interesting read: "Breakdown of Character Design in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End" http://blog.digitaltutors.com/breakdown-character-design-uncharted-4-thiefs-end/
Interesting video: "Making Your First Game: Minimum Viable Product - How to Scope Small and Start Right" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvCri1tqIxQ
Interesting read: "Tutorial: Windows Installer for Your Unity Game" http://martin-klappacher.com/tutorial-windows-installer-for-your-unity-game/
Interesting read: "Horror in the Making: How Red Barrels outlasted Outlast" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/234588/Horror_in_the_Making_How_Red_Barrels_outlasted_Outlast.php
Interesting read: "Top 5 design debates I ignored in 2014" http://www.lostgarden.com/2014/12/top-5-design-debates-i-ignored-in-2014.html

Interesting links (January 2015)

2015-02-01T20:25:00.003+01:00

Interesting video: "Extra Credits: Skyrim's Opening" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpddXJJLhPY
Interesting read: "Setting Realistic Deadlines, Family, and Soup" http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/business/production-and-management/setting-realistic-deadlines-family-and-soup-r3903
Interesting read: "Broken and Beautiful: State of Decay" http://www.theoryofgaming.com/broken-beautiful-state-decay/
Interesting read: "Game Design Essentials: 20 Difficult Games" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/130063/game_design_essentials_20_.php?print=1
Interesting read: "A Good Puzzle Game Is Hard To Build" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/01/22/how-to-make-a-puzzle-game/
Interesting video: "Great Levels in Gaming - Episode 14 - Batman: Arkham City" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIEuQd8Yhsg
Interesting read: "How Did They Do… Satellite Reign’s Rain?" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/01/27/how-did-they-do-satellite-reigns-rain/
Interesting read: "The Power of the Textural Story" http://www.theoryofgaming.com/power-textural-story/
Interesting read: "How do I get started programming games???" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/TommyRefenes/20130107/184432/
Interesting read: "Game Design Essentials: 20 Atari Games" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3679/game_design_essentials_20_atari_.php?print=1

Interesting photos: "A Look Back at Apollo 16" http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/01/a-look-back-at-apollo-16/384744/
Interesting videos: "Inside SCS Software and 1 hour with American Truck Simulator" http://blog.scssoft.com/2015/01/inside-scs-software-and-1-hour-with.html
Interesting read: "One Week of Harassment on Twitter" http://femfreq.tumblr.com/post/109319269825/one-week-of-harassment-on-twitter
Interesting video: "Great Levels in Gaming - Episode 7 - Batman: Arkham Asylum" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAk8D55FK3o
Interesting images: "Half Life Maps per chapter" http://imgur.com/a/WDGAd
Interesting read: "The Independent AAA Proposition" http://www.hellblade.com/?p=16972
Interesting video: "Great Levels in Gaming - Episode 3 - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRBCY3Yxyho
Interesting read: "City builder games: make Build-Up animations cheaply" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JunxueLi/20150121/234688/City_builder_games_make_BuildUp_animations_cheaply.php
Interesting image: "High Viewpoint for 11-Year-Old Rover Mission on Mars" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=pia19109
Interesting read: "Getting to know Rosetta’s comet" http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Getting_to_know_Rosetta_s_comet
Interesting video: "Microsoft HoloLens - Transform your world with holograms" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aThCr0PsyuA
Interesting read: "Maze Generation: Algorithm Recap" http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2011/2/7/maze-generation-algorithm-recap#article_body
Interesting videos: "Devs Play S01E05 - Doom" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygp4-kmjpzI
Interesting read: "Auto Save for Unity" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/LiorTal/20150122/234744/Auto_Save_for_Unity.php
Interesting video: "Making Your First Game: Practical Rules - Setting (and Keeping) Production Goals" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHMNeNapL1E
Interesting repository: "Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II (jmechner)" https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II
Interesting read: "AddComponent(string): API Removal in Unity 5.0" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/01/21/addcomponentstring-api-removal-in-unity-5-0/
Interesting video: "Creating a Doom-style 3D engine in C" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQYsFshbkYw
Interesting read: "Postmortem: Monolith Productions' Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/234421/Postmortem_Monolith_Productions_MiddleEarth_Shadow_of_Mordor.php
Interesting video: "How Evolve Fell Down The Bullshit Tree (The Jimquisition)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsgoD74vLIo
Interesting talk: "There and Dad Again - The Octodad: Dadliest Catch Postmortem" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1021471/There-and-Dad-Again-The
Interesting read: "Adding static water with pixel art and 3D" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RoqueRey/20150115/234209/Adding_static_water_with_pixel_art_and_3D.php
Interesting video: "Open World Origins" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdV_2svrDVc
Interesting video: "Legend of Zelda (Part 4 - Hacking the ROM)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FolqIgQRtl0
Interesting read: "ROM Hacking for Fun (and Profit?): Part 1" https://medium.com/@qrazhan/rom-hacking-for-fun-and-profit-8da983849ffa
Interesting read: "The challenges of next-gen development in Dead Island 2" http://www.makinggames.biz/features/the-challenges-of-next-gen-development-in-dead-island-2,6949.html
Interesting video: "Sega Controller Hack Updated for Windows Auto-Launch" http://hackaday.com/2015/01/03/sega-controller-hack-updated-for-windows-auto-launch/
Interesting video: " Approaching Titan a Billion Times Closer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMxL3ZhO8A8
Interesting read: "What's New in CPUs Since the 80s and How Does It Affect Programmers?" http://danluu.com/new-cpu-features/
Interesting read: "7 things I’ve learnt from designing This War of Mine" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/KacperKwiatkowski/20150113/233988/7_things_Ive_learnt_from_designing_This_War_of_Mine.php
Interesting read: "Monument Valley in Numbers" http://blog.monumentvalleygame.com/blog/2015/1/15/monument-valley-in-numbers
Interesting read: "RYSE – The Transition to Physically Based Shading" http://www.makinggames.biz/features/ryse-the-transition-to-physically-based-shading,4742.html
Interesting talk: "Indie Game Public Relations: 5 Years of Painful Lessons (Chris McQuinn)" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020365/Indie-Game-Public-Relations-5
Interesting video: "Making Your First Game: Basics - How To Start Your Game Development" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z06QR-tz1_o
Interesting read: "The Game Outcomes Project, Part 3: Game Development Factors" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/PaulTozour/20150113/233922/
Interesting read: "NASA Posts a Huge Library of Space Sounds, And You’re Free To Use Them" http://createdigitalmusic.com/2014/10/nasa-posts-huge-library-space-sounds-youre-free-use/
Interesting read: "How NOT to Market Your Indie Game" http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/business/business-and-law/how-not-to-market-your-indie-game-r3400
Interesting video: "The Great Glitch Crisis of 2014" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtBJCPI1b8w
Interesting read: "Handmade Hero's new lessons about old-school game programming" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/233460/QA_How_Handmade_Hero_teaches_new_lessons_about_oldschool_game_programming.php
Interesting read: "Curious Case of Slow Texture Importing, and Xperf" http://aras-p.info/blog/2015/01/09/curious-case-of-slow-texture-importing/
Interesting read: "Xperf Basics: Recording a Trace (the easy way)" https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/xperf-basics-recording-a-trace-the-easy-way/
Interesting read: "Marching Squares 2, sharing and crossing" http://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/marching-squares-2/
Interesting read: "Localizing Dragon Age: Inquisition" http://www.makinggames.biz/features/localizing-dragon-age-inquisition,7166.html
Interesting read: "6 Tips for Game Localization" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/RasmusRasmussen/20150108/233804/6_Tips_for_Game_Localization.php
Interesting video: "Repairing and Reviewing a 1976 PONG Clone" http://hackaday.com/2015/01/07/repairing-and-reviewing-a-1976-pong-clone/
Interesting read: "Pipboy 3000" http://sweatmanscientific.com/entry/pipboy-3000-mark-1-1-3.html
Interesting website: "The Digital Comic Museum - Free and Public Domain Comic Books" http://digitalcomicmuseum.com
Interesting read: "Sources of Uncertainty" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/FabianFischer/20150105/233529/
Interesting documentary: "The rise and fall of Imagine Software (1984)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoDh61sgCOg
Interesting video: "Creating a Breakout Game for Beginners" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_ahbdB0AnI
Interesting videos: "Make A Game With No Experience (by Tom Francis)" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUtKzyIe0aB2HjpmBhnsHpK7ig0z7ohWw
Interesting read: "A Closer Look at the Godot Game Engine" http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2015/01/04/A-Closer-Look-at-the-Godot-Game-Engine.aspx
Interesting read: "When to Start Promoting Your Indie Game" http://elysianshadows.com/updates/when-to-start-promoting-your-indie-game/
Interesting read: "Creating the Scribble Effect in Guild of Dungeoneering" http://blog.gambrinous.com/2015/01/06/creating-the-scribble-effect-in-guild-of-dungeoneering/
Interesting read: "Four Layers – A Narrative Design Approach" http://www.makinggames.biz/features/four-layers-a-narrative-design-approach,5968.html
Interesting video: "Theme and mechanics in Far Cry 2 and Far Cry 4" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm5myQWcJxc
Interesting read: "Primer on Repeatable Random Numbers" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RuneSkovboJohansen/20150105/233505/Primer_on_Repeatable_Random_Numbers.php
Interesting read: "A Night With the Devil" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RadekKoncewicz/20141229/233271/
Interesting read: "Putting tiles on the map" http://www.makinggames.biz/features/putting-tiles-on-the-map,7145.html
Interesting read: "How to avoid burnout and maintain constant productivity" http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/2r7mom/how_to_avoid_burnout_and_maintain_constant/
Interesting talk: "Hearthstone: 10 Bits of Design Wisdom (Eric Dodds)" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020775/Hearthstone-10-Bits-of-Design
Interesting read: "Open Development from all Perspectives" http://www.makinggames.biz/features/open-development-from-all-perspectives,7156.html
Interesting illustrations: "The Original Star Wars Concept Art Is Amazing" http://www.buzzfeed.com/danieldalton/stunning-star-wars-concept-art-ralph-mcquarrie
Interesting post: "Turn on your computer from anywhere with an Arduino Server" http://hackaday.com/2014/12/28/turn-on-your-computer-from-anywhere-with-an-arduino-server/
Interesting video: "Horizon's look a ILM and VFX - Part 2 (Matte Painting)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw3EvuRkQVw
Interesting free sounds: "Weapon Impacts Bundle - The Medieval Weapons Sound Effects Library" http://freefirearmsfx.com/medieval-sound-library/4587788633
Interesting read: "Distributing Through a Humble Bundle" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/KevinHarwood/20141124/230810/Distributing_Through_a_Humble_Bundle.php
Interesting read: "Indie while Expecting: The story of Glyph Quest" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/12/17/indie-while-expecting-the-story-of-glyph-quest/
Interesting talk: "Classic Game Postmortem: Shenmue (Yu Suzuki)" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020805/Classic-Game-Postmortem
Interesting read: "Building the Scope of Planetside 2" http://www.makinggames.biz/features/building-the-scope-of-planetside-2,4794.html
Interesting read: "Lessons Learned From 191k Views on Youtube: Lord of the Aisle" http://idumpling.com/lessons-learned-from-191k-views-on-youtube-and-lord-of-the-aisle/

Interesting links (December 2014)

2015-01-01T10:21:00.006+01:00

Interesting read: "Baldur's Gate II: The Anatomy of a Sequel" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131493/baldurs_gate_ii_the_anatomy_of_a_.php
Interesting read: "Line drawing on a grid" http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/line-drawing.html
Interesting read: "Dear Bethesda, We Love You but We Love Story Too" http://www.theoryofgaming.com/bethesda_vs_story/
Interesting read: "Creating the open world of Forza Horizon" http://www.makinggames.biz/features/creating-the-open-world-of-forza-horizon,6375.html
Interesting read: "Quake on an oscilloscope: A technical report" http://www.lofibucket.com/articles/oscilloscope_quake.html
Interesting read: "Nintendo and Endless Loyalty" http://www.theoryofgaming.com/nintendo-endless-loyalty/
Interesting read: "Decision-Making in Cosmonautica" http://www.makinggames.biz/features/decision-making-in-cosmonautica,6020.html
Interesting read: "A Primer on Bézier Curves" http://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/
Interesting read: "When a successful game is a failure" http://www.polygon.com/features/2014/3/6/5465976/defense-grid-2-console-port
Interesting video: "RetroAhoy: Half-Life" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp5vOgz8vyI …

Interesting list: "100 Essential Jazz Albums" http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/05/19/100-essential-jazz-albums …
Interesting read: "Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In" http://paulgraham.com/95.html
Interesting read: "The three lives of Blizzard Entertainment" http://www.polygon.com/features/2014/10/3/6901193/blizzard-entertainment-three-lives
Interesting read: "Intrusive Lists in Doom 3" http://gpfault.net/posts/intrusive-lists-doom3.txt.html
Interesting read: "Virtual Trademarks" http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/chtlj/vol24/iss4/2/
Interesting read: "Custom Occlusion Culling in Unity" http://robotinvader.com/blog/?p=460
Interesting read: "Introducing presskit() 2.5 & distribute()" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/RamiIsmail/20141222/233094/Introducing_presskit_25__distribute.php
Interesting read: "The Point and Click Revival; Will it Last?" http://www.theoryofgaming.com/point-and-click-essay/
Interesting read: "Rooms and Mazes: A Procedural Dungeon Generator" http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2014/12/21/rooms-and-mazes/
Interesting read: "Tutorial: Extending The Unity3D Editor" http://sassybot.com/blog/tutorial-extending-the-unity3d-editor/
Interesting news: "Calling all VR enthusiasts: target the Oculus Rift with Unity Free" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/12/23/calling-all-vr-enthusiasts-target-the-oculus-rift-with-unity-free/
Interesting read: "Why game accessibility matters" http://www.polygon.com/features/2014/8/6/5886035/disabled-gamers-accessibility
Interesting read: "Please Encapsulate Your Fields" http://www.tallior.com/unity-encapsulate-your-fields/
Interesting read: "The Character Art of Dragon Age: Inquisition" http://blog.digitaltutors.com/the-character-art-of-dragon-age-inquisition/
Interesting read: "Retro City Rampage sales analysis - two years out, 2012-2014" http://retrocityrampage.com/casestudy2014.php
Interesting read: "Building your own engine" http://www.makinggames.biz/features/building-your-own-engine-part-1-getting-ready-for-the-next-generation,6305.html
Interesting post: "Unity version usage (might be useful for package devs)" http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/unity-version-usage-might-be-useful-for-package-devs.250891/
Interesting read: "Lessons to learn from Oculus development team when using the 'Modern C++' approach" http://www.codergears.com/Blog/?p=1313
Interesting read: "6 Free Comic Fonts for Commercial Use That are Awesome" http://www.optimumwound.com/6-free-comic-fonts-for-commercial-use-that-are-awesome.htm
Interesting read: "Inkscape Web Comic Tutorial: The Speech Balloon" http://thepinksylphide.com/2008/11/21/inkscape-web-comic-tutorial-the-speech-balloon
Interesting read: "The Prismata AI: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bots" http://blog.prismata.net/2014/12/17/the-prismata-ai/
Interesting video: "How to get your game in the Twitch database" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEQ6KZ19Jz8
Interesting read: "Comprehensive and elegant memory pooling for Unity" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaduDanciu/20141216/230505/Comprehensive_and_elegant_memory_pooling_for_Unity.php
Interesting read: "XRay Unreal Engine 4.5 source code" http://www.codergears.com/Blog/?p=965
Interesting read: "The grand PR-FAQ" http://www.makinggames.biz/features/the-grand-pr-faq-part-1,6832.html
Interesting read: "Video Game Violence: Assessing Why, When and How" http://www.theoryofgaming.com/video-game-violence-why-when-and-how/
Interesting read: "Porting The Witcher 2 on Xbox 360" http://www.makinggames.biz/features/porting-the-witcher-2-on-xbox-360,4010.html
Interesting read: "The Call of Duty Effect" http://www.mapcore.org/page/features/_/articles/the-call-of-duty-effect-r26
Interesting read: "HLSLParser - The Witness" http://the-witness.net/news/2014/08/hlslparser/
Interesting video: "Video Game Development from the Deep - Episode 1" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQi5Pr9Viy0
Interesting read: "Loot Drop Tables" http://www.lostgarden.com/2014/12/loot-drop-tables.html
Interesting read: "What We Use to Make Our 2D Games" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/ChadAta/20141211/231678/What_We_Use_to_Make_Our_2D_Games.php
Interesting slides and videos: "Inside GlassBox" http://www.andrewwillmott.com/talks/inside-glassbox
Interesting read: "Doom3 is the proof that 'keep it simple' works" http://www.codergears.com/Blog/?p=1103
Interesting read: "Reducing Unity game file size" http://www.gamedev.net/blog/591/entry-2260598-reducing-unity-game-file-size/
Interesting videos: "Intro to C on Windows" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEMXAbCVnmY6RverunClc_DMLNDd3ASRp
Interesting video: "Curiosity Rover Report: The Making of Mount Sharp (Dec. 8, 2014)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS99yR1cooE
Interesting video: "15,000 amazon kiva robots drives eighth generation fulfillment center" http://vimeo.com/113374910
Interesting video: "Modeling Nathan Drake: Bringing an Iconic Character to PS4 Panel" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70jVUBnp6lQ
Interesting read: "World generation and crafting…" http://www.zombox.net/?p=542
Interesting video: "Saints Row: Gat out of Hell Behind The Scenes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14n1_SvT9lw
Interesting read: "How You're Going To Price Your Computer Game" http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-youre-going-to-price-your-computer.html
Interesting read: "The Art of Saving" http://www.theoryofgaming.com/art-saving/
Interesting video and read: "In the Directors Chair: Left 4 Dead" http://t2thompson.com/2014/12/01/in-the-directors-chair-left-4-dead/
Interesting video: "No Man's Sky's Sean Murray Meets Insomniac's Ted Price" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWnIrP1MCaM
Interesting read: "Procedural Generation of Puzzle Game Levels" http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/game-programming/procedural-generation-of-puzzle-game-levels-r3862
Interesting video: "Introduction to Scriptable Objects" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQzMN7q_Wvc
Interesting video: "A Behind-The-Scenes Tour Of No Man's Sky's Technology" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-kifCYToAU
Interesting video: "AI: Utility Theory with Kevin Dill - IGDA Webinar" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs0gQkqQ_lY
Interesting read: "George S. Patton’s Heirs Sue Over Use Of General’s Likeness In Videogame" http://videogamerlaw.com/george-s-pattons-heirs-sue-over-use-of-generals-likeness-in-videogame/
Interesting read: "Three States and a Plan: The A.I. of F.E.A.R." http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/gdc2006_orkin_jeff_fear.pdf (PDF | 2.3MB)
Interesting read: "Level Design in The Last of Us: Part One" http://www.mapcore.org/page/features/_/articles/level-design-in-the-last-of-us-part-one-r46
Interesting read: "I Wish Upon a Steam" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/LarsDoucet/20141204/231576/I_Wish_Upon_a_Steam.php
Interesting short film: "Wanderers" http://vimeo.com/108650530
Interesting video: "Doomed: The Embers of Amiga FPS" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv6aJRGpz_A
Interesting video: "Postcards from Pripyat, Chernobyl" http://vimeo.com/112681885
Interesting video: "The History Of Sonic: Birth Of An Icon (Full Documentary)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym2ve5_YD60
Interesting website: "Indie game youtubers directory" http://gameyoutubers.com/
Interesting read: "The Power of the High Pass Filter" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131482/the_power_of_the_high_pass_filter.php?print=1
Interesting read: "Marching Squares, partitioning space" http://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/marching-squares/
Interesting read: "Generalized Platformer AI Pathfinding" http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/artificial-intelligence/generalized-platformer-ai-pathfinding-r3924
Interesting videos: "3 Minute Game Design" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFFUZ_uHAWMU44iAlkVoXKnsOefNYdsaK
Interesting videos: "Lets build a MMORPG" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_4rJ_acBNMFgWZf-MMBbFtrKnehwFWOe
Interesting read: "Why Cheating Matters" http://odiousrepeater.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/why-cheating-matters/
Interesting read: "From Dead Island to Dying Light" http://www.polygon.com/features/2014/7/16/5825146/dead-island-dying-light
Interesting video: "GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhbcDzbGSU … #gamedev
Interesting videos: "A Brief History of Graphics" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOQZmjD6P2HlOoEVKOPaCFvLnjP865X1f … #gamedev #gameart #computergraphics
Interesting read: "Retro Mortis: RTS (Part 1) - It was found in a Desert..." http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/creative/game-design/retro-mortis-rts-part-1-it-was-found-in-a-desert-r3893 … #gamedev #gamedesign
Interesting videos: "Good Game Design Shovel Knight" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYvPdEyTXUc & "Shovel Knight - LevelHead" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aYsG1tQe6E
Interesting read: "Bézier Curves for your Games: A Tutorial" http://devmag.org.za/2011/04/05/bzier-curves-a-tutorial/#programming
Interesting read about "F.E.A.R." 1, 2 & 3: http://www.theoryofgaming.com/finding-f-e-r/ , http://www.theoryofgaming.com/replicating-f-e-r/ & http://www.theoryofgaming.com/final-f-e-r/

Interesting links (November 2014)

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Interesting video: "Europa: Ocean World" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz9VhCQbPAk
Interesting read: "Week in Tech: SSD Update – It’s All About (NV)Me!" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/11/20/which-ssd-2014/
Interesting repository: "A tiny neat C library that portably invokes native file open and save dialogs" https://github.com/mlabbe/nativefiledialog
Interesting videos: "Unity Day @ Game Connection Paris 2014" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX2vGYjWbI0Q6Vq0lsAkOO9X0ZHgxKlhC
Interesting read: "Inside the Character Animation Process for League of Legends" http://blog.digitaltutors.com/inside-character-animation-process-league-legends/
Interesting video: "The making of Elite: Dangerous" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb55EsHuXiQ
Interesting read: "Zelda Wind Waker – Hyrule Travel Guide - A Game Art Trick" http://simonschreibt.de/gat/zelda-wind-waker-hyrule-travel-guide/
Interesting read: "A Developer’s Nightmare: Economical Design" http://www.theoryofgaming.com/a-developers-nightmare-economical-design/
Interesting news: "4.6 is Released with Source for UI System!" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/11/26/4-6-is-released-with-source-for-ui-system/
Interesting read: "Unity Editor Extensions – Custom Inspectors" http://www.tallior.com/unity-custom-inspectors/
Interesting video: "The Devs Life: Daniel Fedor" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lU8XIPvYLg
Interesting read: "Jai Primer" https://sites.google.com/site/jailanguageprimer/ and comments: http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/2mita3/jai_a_primer_written_by_a_fan_summarizing_the/
Interesting read: "Physically Based Deferred Rendering in Costume Quest 2" http://nosferalatu.com/CQ2Rendering.html
Interesting read: "Tutorial: PBR Texture Conversion" http://www.marmoset.co/toolbag/learn/pbr-conversion

Interesting read: "Directional lightmaps (Unity 5)" http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/directional-lightmaps.280716/
Interesting documentary: "Blizzard Retrospective" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHz2ky-jng8
Interesting read: "Nearly Ripped off to death by a publisher?..." http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/PugetAlain/20141118/230420/Nearly_Ripped_off_to_death_by_a_publisher__Get_better_by_yourself_and_wait_for_justice_Maybe.php
Interesting read: "Half-Life 2: 10 years on" http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-11-16-half-life-2-10-years-on
Interesting documentary: "NHS Sell-Off" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ultKvnw2h3Q
Interesting read: "Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Investment_Partnership
Interesting read: "The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-computing" https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100
Interesting video: "Math and Movies (Animation at Pixar) - Numberphile" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX0NB9IyYpU
Interesting post: "64-bit" http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0188/
Interesting read: "OSIRIS spots Philae drifting across the comet" http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/17/osiris-spots-Philae-drifting-across-the-comet/
Interesting read: "Steam Traffic Patterns Deep Dive" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/LarsDoucet/20141119/230553/
Interesting read: "Porting to Unity 5 – The Untold Rust Journey" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/11/19/porting-to-unity-5-the-untold-rust-journey/
Interesting read: "Valve wants devs to 'set proper expectations' for Early Access games" http://gamasutra.com/view/news/230669/Valve_wants_devs_to_set_proper_expectations_for_Early_Access_games.php
Interesting read: "Don’t Store That in a Float" https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/dont-store-that-in-a-float/
Interesting read: "Right of Publicity in Video Games - How You Can Legally Include a Celebrity in Your Game" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/StephenMcArthur/20141117/230361/Right_of_Publicity_in_Video_Games__How_You_Can_Legally_Include_a_Celebrity_in_Your_Game.php
Interesting video: "Minecraft in Unity 3D - One-Week Programming Challenge" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdwUkYrHosk
Interesting video: "Remaking the Legend - Halo 2: Anniversary" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9-Wk_R3SPw
Interesting read: "Secrets of the Sages: Level Design" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131767/secrets_of_the_sages_level_design.php?print=1
Interesting read: "Inside a video game voiceover studio" http://www.polygon.com/features/2014/8/27/5885067/defense-grid-2-voiceover
Interesting video: "GDC 2007 Programmer's Challenge" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJj6ZQH6skA
Interesting read: "Modelling by numbers: Supplementary (Terrain)" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/JayelindaSuridge/20141113/230153/Modelling_by_numbers_Supplementary_Terrain.php#proceduralgeneration
Interesting read: "Bound Women: Why games are better without a damsel to save" http://www.polygon.com/features/2014/10/24/6242329/character-design-sarkeesian
Interesting talk: "Changing the Time Between Shots for the Sniper Rifle from 0.5 to 0.7 Seconds for Halo 3" http://gdcvault.com/play/1012211/Design-in-Detail-Changing-the
Interesting read: "Why are we releasing DQ1HD as a free upgrade?" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/LarsDoucet/20141113/230132/Why_are_we_releasing_DQ1HD_as_a_free_upgrade.php
Interesting video: "FRONTIERS - November Update" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9ZCbdDcca0
Interesting video: "Landing on a Comet - The Rosetta Mission" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cArihDTnOZg
Interesting video: "Rosetta's twelve-year journey in space" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEQuE5N3rwQ
Interesting read: "Zero to 353 Pages: Bringing My Web Book to Print and eBook" http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2014/11/03/bringing-my-web-book-to-print-and-ebook/
Interesting read: "Game Environment Tips from a Halo Artist" http://blog.digitaltutors.com/dt-exclusive-game-environment-tips-halo-artist/
Interesting read: "The Benefits of Less Detail" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/ChristopherGile/20141112/229910/The_Benefits_of_Less_Detail.php
Interesting video : "Top 10 Reasons Bad Company 2 Was the Best Battlefield" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1y4c11rg78
Interesting read: "Simplex Noise, keeping it simple" http://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/simplex-noise/
Interesting video: "The Big Bad Embargo: Just what is it anyway?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gavcvi19q1g
Interesting read: "Opening up Visual Studio and .NET to Every Developer" http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2014/11/12/opening-up-visual-studio-and-net-to-every-developer-any-application-net-server-core-open-source-and-cross-platform-visual-studio-community-2013-and-preview-of-visual-studio-2015-and-net-2015.aspx
Interesting repository: "TransitionKit (modular transitions in-scene and between scenes)" https://github.com/prime31/TransitionKit
Interesting tutorial: "Cloth Flag" http://www.3dbuzz.com/training/view/unity-fundamentals/physics/15-cloth-flag
Interesting read: "Making Games is Hard" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/PeterCardwellGardner/20141030/228986/Making_Games_is_Hard.php
Interesting video: "Unity 5 Physically Based Texturing Tutorial" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXHVFRHbgY0
Interesting read: "Excerpts from An Architectural Approach to Level Design" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ChristopherTotten/20140711/220802/Excerpts_from_An_Architectural_Approach_to_Level_Design.php
Interesting read: "A glimpse into the terrain design process - The Witness" http://the-witness.net/news/2011/02/a-glimpse-into-the-terrain-design-process/
Interesting read: "Building the World for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor" http://blog.digitaltutors.com/dt-exclusive-building-world-middle-earth-shadow-mordor/
Interesting read: "Using 2D daylight assets to create a night level" http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/using-2d-daylight-assets-to-create.html
Interesting talk: "Jonathan Blow: Indie Prototyping" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISutk1mauPM
Interesting read: "ZC160 – VGA-adapter" http://tldr.fi/2014/09/27/zc160-vga-adapter1/
Interesting read: "Understanding Python Bytecode" http://security.coverity.com/blog/2014/Nov/understanding-python-bytecode.html
Interesting short film: "Firefly Fan Film - THE VERSE" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B24h1SYIxEc
Interesting read: "Cooking Up Gumbo: The Evolution of Turn-Based AI in Shadowrun" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/SheridanThirsk/20141105/229495/Cooking_Up_Gumbo_The_Evolution_of_TurnBased_AI_in_Shadowrun.php
Interesting read: "Nazi Zombies, Ray Guns and Magic Chests" http://www.jessesnyder.org/trenches/?p=42&cpage=4
Interesting website: "Publications & Talks | p1xelcoder" http://www.p1xelcoder.com/publications-talks/
Interesting read: "On New Games, Rewrites, and the Pain of Higher Prices" http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com.es/2014/09/on-new-games-rewrites-and-pain-of.html
Interesting read: "Mirror’s Edge: Building the impossible" http://www.edge-online.com/features/mirrors-edge-building-the-impossible/
Interesting post: "Ryan P. Morrison’s Free Legal Q&A Threads on Reddit Are Amazing" http://www.hobbygamedev.com/adv/ryan-p-morrisons-free-legal-qa-threads-on-reddit-are-amazing/
Interesting slides and notes: "Moving Frostbite to PBR" http://www.frostbite.com/2014/11/moving-frostbite-to-pbr/
Interesting read: "Getting Started with Mobile Game Localization" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/LokiNg/20141103/229300/Getting_Started_with_Mobile_Game_Localization.php
Interesante documental: "Detrás del juego" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbVxuPVARhY
Interesting video: "Player's Hand Dev Timelapse - Return of the Obra Dinn" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQdpeN_OERM
Interesting talk: "C++ in Huge AAA Games - CppCon 2014 Nicolas Fleury" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYN6eduU06s
Interesting read: "Experiments in Texturing - The Witness" http://the-witness.net/news/2010/11/experiments-in-texturing/
Interesting videos: "Castle Does: Subnautica" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZmVk4US70ohuD_LO46SQlbRuorDjM1Ey
Interesting read: "Surviving In the Post-Indie Bubble Wasteland!!!" http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2014/06/surviving-in-post-indie-bubble-wasteland.html
Interesting videos: "A Programming Language for Games (Jonathan Blow)" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmV5I2fxaiCKfxMBrNsU1kgKJXD3PkyxO
Interesting talk: "Reverse Engineering Dead Protocols (Metal Gear Online 1 & 2)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4dyyLpMkQk
Interesting read: "Learn from Folly source code the new C++11 features" http://www.codergears.com/Blog/?p=431
Lectura interesante: "Cómo te afecta la nueva (y vergonzosa) Ley de Propiedad Intelectual" http://es.gizmodo.com/como-te-afecta-la-nueva-y-vergonzosa-ley-de-propiedad-1652346316

Interesting links (October 2014)

2014-11-01T08:52:00.001+01:00

Interesting read: "Creating a basic chess AI with Python" http://mbuffett.com/?p=66
Interesting read: "Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls" http://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivity-pitfalls.html
Interesting read: "Characterizing Your Game: What Characters Say Without Speaking" http://www.theoryofgaming.com/characterizing-your-game/
Interesting video: "The Sounds of Monsters in Borderlands 2" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXHrkk70An0
Interesting video: "Creating Bone Chilling Video Game Monster Sounds" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udQOi5cgIqo
Interesting list: "The Big List Of Sound And Music Creation Software" http://www.pixelprospector.com/the-big-list-of-sound-and-music-creation-software/
Interesting videos: "Sound Design Tutorials" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0110847B9338E0EA
Interesting video: "Skyrim's Sound Design" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DwJTPNvSKU

Interesting read: "Bundling in 2014" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RobertFearon/20141027/228628/Bundling_in_2014.php
Interesting slides: "Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games - SIGGRAPH 2014" http://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2014/index.html
Interesting talk: "SteamWorld Dig Postmortem: How to Fail and Still Succeed at Launching an Indie Sensation" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020909/SteamWorld-Dig-Postmortem-How-to
Interesting video: "Procedural River Generation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwSUpFovMTg
Interesting read: "Bundles – Approach with your Eyes Open" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RichardHillWhittall/20141023/228442/Bundles__Approach_with_your_Eyes_Open.php
Interesting video: "Return of the Obra Dinn - Character modeling" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3X-8_D-sps
Interesting read: "Managing hobby gamedev projects" http://vladimirslav.com/2014/10/managing-hobby-projects/
Interesting videos: "Domino Addition - Numberphile" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNuPy-r1GuQ & "The 10,000 Domino Computer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpLU__bhu2w
Interesting read: "EU-US Trade Negotiations Continue Shutting out the Public—When Will They Learn?" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/eu-us-trade-negotiations-continue-shutting-out-public-when-will-they-learn
Interesting read: "The Only Thing I Have To Say About Gamer Gate (Felicia Day)" http://thisfeliciaday.tumblr.com/post/100700417809/the-only-thing-i-have-to-say-about-gamer-gate
Interesting video: "Design Club - Portal: Test Chambers - Tutorial Mechanics" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_AsF3Rfw8w
Interesting read: "How Rogue Legacy handles tutorials without being boring" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/228326/Game_Design_Deep_Dive_How_Rogue_Legacy_handles_tutorials_without_being_boring.php
Interesting read: "Working on The Witness Part 9 & 10" http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0017.html & http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0018.html
Interesting read: "Understanding Perlin Noise" http://flafla2.github.io/2014/08/09/perlinnoise.html
Interesting read: "Rewarding Failure: How Great Games Perpetuate Bad Design" http://www.theoryofgaming.com/rewarding-failure-great-games-perpetuate-bad-design/
Interesting read: "Kellee Santiago's 10-step video game production plan" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/228260/Kellee_Santiagos_10step_video_game_production_plan.php
Interesting video: "Design Club - Mark of the Ninja - Stealth Games and Visual Cues" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vJNqseX-rs
Interesting read: "The Designer's Notebook: Eight Ways To Make a Bad Tutorial" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/134774/the_designers_notebook_eight_.php
Interesting read: "Dragged Kickstarting and Screaming" http://odiousrepeater.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/dragged-kickstarting-and-screaming/
Interesting read: "Runtime editor-console connection in The Witcher 2" http://bartwronski.com/2014/05/13/runtime-editor-console-connection-in-the-witcher-2/
Interesting read: "Shadow Mapping Summary – Part 1" http://the-witness.net/news/2013/09/shadow-mapping-summary-part-1/
Interesting read: "Procedural Content: Eighth Generation Hope or Hype?" http://www.theoryofgaming.com/procedural-content-eighth-generation-hope-hype/
Interesting slides: "Hobby engine to game engine" (PDF 4.3MB) http://aras-p.info/texts/files/201410-TUM-HobbyEngineToGameEngine.pdf
Interesting read: "Games Are Not Coffee Mugs: Games and the Right of Publicity" http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/chtlj/vol29/iss1/1/
Interesting talk: "Don't Juice It or Lose It" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020861/Don-t-Juice-It-or
Interesting read: "A study of code abstraction" (PDF 511KB) http://dendory.net/screenshots/abstraction_of_code.pdf
Interesting talk: "Making music with a C compiler" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCEUyx-SxPw
Interesting read: "We cannot let this become gaming culture" http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-10-17-we-cannot-let-this-become-gaming-culture & "A letter from the editor" http://www.polygon.com/2014/10/17/6996601/on-gamergate-a-letter-from-the-editor
Interesting read: "Thoughts on Alien: Isolation and Horror Simulation" http://frictionalgames.blogspot.com/2014/10/thoughts-on-alien-isolation-and-horror.html
Interesting free tool: "Spacescape - a tool for creating space skyboxes with stars and nebulas" http://alexcpeterson.com/spacescape
Interesting talk: "The 2014 European Innovative Games Showcase" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020863/The-2014-European-Innovative-Games
Interesting talk: "The Quake 3 Rendering Engine (1999 GDC - Brian Hook)" https://archive.org/details/1999-gdc-brianhookquake3
Interesting talk: "Quick Game Development with C++11 / C++14" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC9zhufV_Z8
Interesting read: "The Lack of the Female Protagonist" http://www.theoryofgaming.com/the-lack-of-the-female-protagonist-part-one/ … & http://www.theoryofgaming.com/the-lack-of-the-female-protagonist-part-two/
Interesting read: "Reviving the Dead – The State of Survival Horror" http://www.theoryofgaming.com/reviving-dead-state-survival-horror/
Interesting read: "Marketplace Confusion: The Pros and Cons of PC Game Marketplaces" http://blog.powerupgames.io/post/99905543738/marketplace-confusion-the-pros-and-cons-of-pc-game
Interesting read: "Gamers Are Having A Bizarre Debate Over Whether Sending Death Threats To Women Is A Serious Issue" http://www.businessinsider.com/gamergate-death-threats-2014-10
Interesting slides: "Banding in Games" (PDF 38.6MB) http://loopit.dk/banding_in_games.pdf
Interesting read: "Ideal Game Length: A Modern Fallacy" http://www.theoryofgaming.com/ideal-game-length-modern-fallacy/
Interesting read: "Other developers on the ideal patching frequency" http://joostdevblog.blogspot.nl/2014/10/other-developers-on-ideal-patching.html
Interesting videos: "Breakfast With Unity" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlHjNcdoyw6WVpwY7_InRc6vYFS3bEPar
Interesting read: "The Messy Story Behind YouTubers Taking Money For Game Coverage" http://kotaku.com/the-messy-story-behind-youtubers-taking-money-for-game-1644092214
Interesting read: "Xbox One's Parity Clause Meant to Make Owners Feel 'First Class'" http://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-ones-parity-clause-meant-to-make-owners-feel-/1100-6422886/
Interesting list: "Awesome C/C++ frameworks, libraries, resources, and shiny things" https://github.com/fffaraz/awesome-cpp
Interesting read: "Making Embedded Content Work In Responsive Design" http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/02/27/making-embedded-content-work-in-responsive-design/
Interesting read: "How GameCube/Wii emulator Dolphin got a turbocharge" http://www.pcgamer.com/how-gamecubewii-emulator-dolphin-got-a-turbocharge/
Interesting read: "Flowing Water" http://www.thewildeternal.com/2014/09/02/devlog-flowing-water/
Interesting read: "Tell Me A Story: The Value of Voice Actors" http://www.theoryofgaming.com/tell-story-value-voice-actors/
Interesting read: "The Social Side of Fear" http://odiousrepeater.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/the-social-side-of-fear/
Interesting talk: "How to Get Your Game Covered by YouTubers (Mike Rose)" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020859/How-to-Get-Your-Game
Interesting read: "Why patching too often is a bad idea / The magic of the Vault" http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com.es/2014/10/why-patching-too-often-is-bad-idea.html
Interesting read: "The short games revolution" http://www.theastronauts.com/2013/01/short-games-revolution/
Interesting read: "Reverse Engineering Star Wars: Yoda Stories" http://www.zachtronics.com/yoda-stories/
Interesting read: "The features PC gamers want—an open letter to developers" http://www.pcgamer.com/the-features-pc-gamers-wantan-open-letter-to-developers-and-gamers/
Interesting post: "The best developer tools, now free for students (GitHub Student Developer Pack)" https://github.com/blog/1900-the-best-developer-tools-now-free-for-students
Interesting read: "The Marketing Guide for Game Developers" http://www.pixelprospector.com/the-marketing-guide-for-game-developers/
Interesting read: "Postmortem: Monolith's No One Lives Forever" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131478/postmortem_monoliths_no_one_.php
Interesting read: "The Hero-Narrator Problem in Ethan Carter" http://theastrocrew.tumblr.com/post/76660730143/the-hero-narrator-problem-in-ethan-carter
Interesting talk: "Game a Week: How to Succeed, Fail and Learn" http://gdcvault.com/play/1020866/Game-a-Week-How-to
Interesting read: "Procedural Planet Generation" http://experilous.com/1/blog/post/procedural-planet-generation
Interesting video: "Indiecent Exposure: Talking Steam discoverability with a panel of interesting people" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzUIIkP5RMA
Interesting videos: "Spotify Engineering Culture" http://vimeo.com/85490944 & http://vimeo.com/94950270
Interesting slides: "CppCon2014 / Presentations" https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2014/tree/master/Presentations
Interesting read: "Programming the Atari ST 20 Years Later" http://www.voidbred.com/blog/2014/09/programming-the-atari-st-20-years-later/
Interesting talk: "CppCon 2014: Mike Acton 'Data-Oriented Design and C++'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc
Interesting read: "MATERIALS - Tutorials by Philip Klevestav" http://www.philipk.net/tutorials/materials/materials.html
Interesting video: "Create Specular texture from Diffuse Map layers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnvvGn9VhVU
Interesting read: "Noise Derivatives, going with the flow" http://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/noise-derivatives/
Interesting read: "Five surprising immersion killers in games" http://www.theastronauts.com/2012/11/five-surprising-immersion-killers-in-games/
Interesting read: "How to get every game on STEAM for free" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/LeszekLisowski/20141001/226840/How_to_get_every_game_on_STEAM_for_free.php
Interesting video: "Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Developer Blog 8: Engine Power" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obO5sbziqjM
Interesting read: "How We Approached 3D Foliage in The Vanishing of Ethan Carter" http://www.theastronauts.com/2014/02/approached-3d-foliage-vanishing-ethan-carter/
Interesting read: "Voyager to Nebular 5" http://tower22.blogspot.com/2014/05/voyager-to-nebular-5.html

Interesting links (September 2014)

2014-10-01T10:26:00.000+02:00

Interesting read: "The Secret of Immersive Game Worlds" http://www.theastronauts.com/2014/03/secret-immersive-game-worlds/
Interesting video: "Live Training 22nd September 2014 - Animate Anything" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWuNtik0C8E
Interesting read: "Are the new Steam Discovery tools having any effect on game sales?" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/226541/Are_the_new_Steam_Discovery_tools_having_any_effect_on_game_sales.php
Interesting video: "IndieCade 2013 - Empuzzlement (Jon Blow, Marc ten Bosch and Droqen)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul_ZfzfHRek
Interesting read: "Visual Revolution of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter" http://www.theastronauts.com/2014/03/visual-revolution-vanishing-ethan-carter/
Interesting read: "Game Ethic classes" http://tower22.blogspot.com/2014/09/game-ethic-classes.html
Interesting free ebooks: "40+ e-books on popular technologies for free - Syncfusion" http://www.syncfusion.com/resources/techportal/ebooks
Interesting video: "The Shellshock Bug In About Four Minutes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKShnpOXqn0
Interesting speech: "Emma Watson at the HeForShe Campaign 2014 - Official UN Video" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkjW9PZBRfk
Interesting read: "Ray-Casting Tutorial For Game Development And Other Purposes" http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/raycast/
Interesting video: "Great Levels in Gaming - Episode 10 - Cave Story" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNbqnZFhbTk
Interesting podcast: "Up Up Down Down, the podcast about the craft of video games" http://www.upup.fm/
Interesting read: "Creating Modular Environments in UDK" http://www.thiagoklafke.com/modularenvironments.html

Interesting read: "Creating 2D animation states in Unity3D" http://johnstejskal.com/wp/creating-2d-animations-from-sprite-sheets-in-unity3d/ & http://johnstejskal.com/wp/creating-2d-animations-from-sprite-sheets-in-unity3d-pt2/
Interesting read: "Google Play's Address Policy: Bad for Indie Devs, Bad for Android" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DavidLejeune/20140920/226089/Google_Plays_Address_Policy_Bad_for_Indie_Devs_Bad_for_Android.php
Interesting talk: "Modernizing Splinter Cell's Gunplay (James Everett)" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020354/Modernizing-Splinter-Cell-s
Interesting read: "On Steam Curation, what I think it changes" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/MikeBithell/20140923/226260/On_Steam_Curation_what_I_think_it_changes.php
Interesting read: "Analysis: Can 'The Curators' solve Steam's discoverability issues?" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/226249/Analysis_Can_The_Curators_solve_Steams_discoverability_issues.php
Interesting talk: "Far Cry's AI: A Manifesto for Systemic Gameplay" http://gameaiconf.com/recording/far-cry-4/
Interesting videos: "Unreal Engine 4 AI Tutorial" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3hM7_RDaHMz0umAPdszT172uhZTFuP94
Interesting read: "Defining Normal: Difficulty in Video Games" http://www.theoryofgaming.com/defining-normal-difficulty-video-games/
Interesting talk: "Keynote by John Carmack at Oculus Connect 2014" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqzpAbK9qFk
Interesting read: "Unity New GUI Tutorial – Part 1" http://www.raywenderlich.com/78675/unity-new-gui-part-1
Interesting talk: "Ideas about a new programming language for games (Jonathan Blow)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH9VCN6UkyQ
Interesting repository: "Oculus Rift Development Kit : Firmware, Schematics ..." https://github.com/OculusVR/RiftDK1
Interesting read: "I was just asked to crack a program in a job interview !" http://erenyagdiran.github.io/I-was-just-asked-to-crack-a-program-Part-1/
Interesting test: "C++ Quiz: are you a code guru?" http://q.viva64.com/
Interesting read: "Branching Conversation Systems and the Working Writer" http://www.alexanderfreed.com/tag/branching-conversation-systems-and-the-working-writer/
Interesting read: "Global Illumination in Unity 5" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/09/18/global-illumination-in-unity-5/
Interesting read: "Running an indie game store - itch.io" http://itch.io/blog/1/running-an-indie-game-store
Interesting read: "Interview with Paul Haynes, Homefront: The Revolution Senior Level Designer" http://www.mapcore.org/page/features/_/interviews/interview-with-paul-paulh-haynes-hom-r43
Interesting repository: "Metazelda - procedurally-generating dungeons with item-based puzzles" https://github.com/tcoxon/metazelda
Interesting read: "Overworld Overview" http://bytten-studio.com/devlog/2014/09/08/overworld-overview-part-1/ & http://bytten-studio.com/devlog//2014/09/15/overworld-overview-part-2/
Interesting videos: "Modern UI Development in Unity 4.6" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt_Y3Hw1v3QTEbh8fQV1DUOUIh9nF0k6c
Interesting repository: "Commander Keen in Keen Dreams" https://github.com/keendreams/keen
Interesting videos: "ProBuilder v2.3 Tutorials" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrJfHfcFkLM8PDioWg_5nmUqQycnVmi58
Interesting read: "Star, an introduction to WYSIWYG editing" http://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/editor/star/
Interesting talk: "Advanced UI - Unite 2014" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JhmVTEx_EA
Interesting read: "The Fundamental Pillars of a Combat System" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/175950/the_fundamental_pillars_of_a_.php
Interesting read: "Fully Interactive Surfaces In DOOM3" http://www.battleteam.net/tech/fis/docs/index.html
Interesting talk: "Preserving a Sense of Discovery in the Age of Spoilers" http://vimeo.com/91436410 & http://postproductdev.com/2014/04/07/jim-crawford-on-making-games-more-mysterious/
Interesting video: "Unity Tips and Tricks: Procedural Geometry #1 - Basic Quad" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jHe1FzrKD8
Interesting read: "Blogging on GitHub" http://loyc.net/2014/blogging-on-github.html
Interesting website: "Noisli - background noise and color generator for working and relaxing" http://www.noisli.com
Interesting video: "USS Theodore Roosevelt Conducts Combined Manned, Unmanned Operations" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqiOzO8yV4A
Interesting free asset: "GConsole (an ingame developer console for the Unity3D Engine)" https://github.com/Rahazan/GConsole
Interesting read: "Tools of the Shade (Unity)" http://www.eastshade.com/tools-of-the-shade/
Interesting video: "UI Live Hangout 11th September 2014" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmAJ-OGVyI
Interesting talk: "Classic Game Postmortem - POPULOUS (Peter Molyneux)" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014633/Classic-Game-Postmortem
Interesting read: "Unity3d tip: implementing pick-and-drag mechanics in a first-person game" http://raycast.net/2014/09/07/unity3d-pick-and-drag.html
Interesting talk: "DirectX 11 Rendering and NVIDIA GameWorks in Batman: Arkham Origins" (MP4 | 321MB) http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2014/video/S4614-dx11-rendering-gameworks-batman-arkham-origins.mp4
Interesting talk: "Mike Bithell at Nordic Game 2014: Making Games Small and Big in Unity" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h136fhC1HIA
Interesting read: "Curves and Splines, a Unity C# Tutorial" http://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/curves-and-splines/
Interesting read: "Creating Tile-Based Texture Maps for Games" http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/55091
Interesting read: "Noise, a Unity C# Tutorial" http://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/noise/
Interesting talk: "Editor Scripting from the real world - Unite 2014" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1o0gZwJS-4
Interesting read: "The Mix in The Last of Us" http://www.audiogang.org/blog/the-mix-in-the-last-of-us/
Interesting talk: "To Mecanim And Beyond - Unite 2014" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7djMWP4EKTs
Interesting talk: "Classic Game Postmortem: Broken Sword (Charles Cecil)" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020893/Classic-Game-Postmortem-Broken
Interesting website: "GTC On-Demand Featured Talks | GPU Technology Conference" http://on-demand-gtc.gputechconf.com/gtcnew/on-demand-gtc.php
Interesting video: "The Commodore C116 as shown by Bil Herd" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPD5N43VIsk
Interesting read: "The War Photo No One Would Publish" http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/08/the-war-photo-no-one-would-publish/375762/
Interesting read: "I Support Anita" http://c0de517e.blogspot.ca/2014/08/i-support-anita.html
Interesting talk: "2D Best Practices In Unity - Unite 2014" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM17mAmLd7k
Interesting talk: "A Great Disturbance in Development: The Dark Side of Early Access (James Crowe)" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020874/A-Great-Disturbance-in-Development
Interesting video: "Unity Audio Subtitles Tutorial" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NW0BYn5KfE
Interesting talk: "WebGL Deployment in Unity 5 - Unite 2014" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY72_tI4t1I
Interesting videos: "Let's Make Flappy Bird (using Java and OpenGL)" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlrATfBNZ98e5KBKGcL7ARy3DjstzI2TV
Interesting video: "Samsung Unpacked - Gear VR and Oculus with John Carmack" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO6T4M4VMuk
Interesting read: "Interview with Thiago 'Minos' Klafke, Blizzard Environment Artist" http://www.mapcore.org/page/features/_/articles/interview-with-thiago-minos-klafke-b-r42
Interesting read: "Digging down to business: Shovel Knight Planning and Sales" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DavidDAngelo/20140805/222585/Digging_down_to_business_Shovel_Knight_Planning_and_Sales.php
Interesting talk: "Making of Monument Valley in Unity - Nordic Game 2014" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCCC9hQm6MM
Interesting talk: "Classic Game Postmortem - PAC-MAN (Toru Iwatani)" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014631/Classic-Game-Postmortem-PAC
Interesting read: "How to Make a 2D Space Shooter in Unity - Part 1" http://blog.lessmilk.com/unity-spaceshooter-1/
Interesting talk: "Generating Procedural Dungeons in Galak Z - Unite 2014" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySTpjT6JYFU

Interesting links (August 2014)

2014-09-01T09:55:00.000+02:00

Interesting read: "Metro Redux: what it's really like to develop for PS4 and Xbox One" http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2014-metro-redux-what-its-really-like-to-make-a-multi-platform-game
Interesting talk: "Classic Game Postmortem: Gauntlet (Ed Logg)" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1015841/Classic-Game-Postmortem
Interesting talk: "Dungeon of the Endless Rendering and Procedural Content - Unite 2014" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPQOHX9hiL0
Interesting read: "Game Design Deep Dive: Amnesia's 'Sanity Meter'" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/223931/game_design_deep_dive_amnesias_.php
Interesting talk: "Classic Studio Postmortem: Lucasfilm Games" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020557/Classic-Studio-Postmortem-Lucasfilm
Interesting talk: "Instant Prototyping and Rapid Iterative Development with Probuilder" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMoV6zc9veo
Interesting talk: "How I Got My Mom to Play Through Plants vs. Zombies (George Fan)" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1015541/How-I-Got-My-Mom
Interesting talk: "Crash Course on Implementing Steamworks SDK - Unite 2014" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FJzehQrqJE
Interesting video: "Women as Background Decoration: Part 2 - Tropes vs Women in Video Games" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i_RPr9DwMA

Interesting free ebook: "The quest for artificial intelligence: A history of ideas and achievements" http://ai.stanford.edu/~nilsson/QAI/qai.pdf (PDF | 15.3 MB)
Interesting read: "How I Created a Beautiful and Minimal Blog Using Jekyll, Github Pages, and poole" http://joshualande.com/jekyll-github-pages-poole/
Interesting video: "Giant Bomb: How to Build a BEAST: Episode 02 - The studio is just about done..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUyC37YWcEU
Interesting presentation: "Excerpt from Outerra FMX 2014 presentation" http://forum.outerra.com/FMX/presentation/
Interesting videos: "Intro to Programming with Unity3D" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRf-PfhVvwFDWrHVWYj9tiRze0rtB5Sn0
Interesting read: "How to host a Unity web-game with Google Drive" http://jibransyed.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/how-to-host-a-unity-web-game-with-google-drive/
Interesting read: "How To Balance An RPG" http://kotaku.com/how-to-balance-an-rpg-1625516832
Interesting read: "Finances of a Bare Bones Developer" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/KevinMaxon/20140818/223653/Finances_of_a_Bare_Bones_Developer.php
Interesting spreadsheet: "Game Budgets and Sales" https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IlZhM6LDdRUvDpszy_yPaV2OEKhTJ0zsEYHLacGAljI/edit#gid=0
Interesting free ebook: "The Little Book of Semaphores" http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=83
Interesting free ebook: "Reverse Engineering for Beginners" http://beginners.re/
Interesting read: "But WHAT CAN BE DONE: Dos and Don’ts To Combat Online Sexism" http://leighalexander.net/but-what-can-be-done-dos-and-donts-to-combat-online-sexism/
Interesting read: "Game Design Deep Dive: Ammo Collection in Wolfenstein: The New Order" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/223752/Game_Design_Deep_Dive_Ammo_Collection_in_Wolfenstein_The_New_Order.php
Interesting read: "Follow Your Dreams!...Or Maybe Don't" http://www.fortressofdoors.com/follow-your-dreams-or-maybe-dont/
Interesting video: "Create Lightning in Unity" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNauvZle5iA
Interesting read: "Designing a 2D Jump" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/MohanRajagopalan/20140813/223251/Designing_a_2D_Jump.php & "Platformer Jumps" https://imgur.com/a/9Dj5F
Interesting video: "Generalizing Locomotion Style to New Animals With Inverse Optimal Regression" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF_a1c7zytw … #computergraphics
Interesting read: "Computing Alpha Mipmaps" http://the-witness.net/news/2010/09/computing-alpha-mipmaps/
Interesting read: "Composition in Level Design" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MateuszPiaskiewicz/20140817/223513/Composition_in_Level_Design.php
Interesting read: "Because You’re Worthless: The Dark Side Of Indie PR" http://www.puppygames.net/blog/?p=1574 & comments: http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/2dwvss/because_youre_worthless_the_dark_side_of_indie_pr/
Interesting read: "Kriging is cool" http://the-witness.net/news/2010/05/kriging-is-cool/
Interesting read: "Was Localizing Defender's Quest Worth It?" http://www.fortressofdoors.com/was-localizing-defenders-quest-worth-it/
Interesting talk: "Hands-On with Unity 5: Physical-Based Shading, Reflection Probes, WebGL..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DmRNlIJIp0
Interesting read: "Specific tips/suggestions for juicing your game" http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/2apo2a/specific_tipssuggestions_for_juicing_your_game/
Interesting video: "MAKING OF 'Futurama 3d (test shot)'" http://vimeo.com/102935595
Interesting read: "Can We Trust the Libraries We Use?" http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0271/
Interesting video: "Ranger 7 'Meets' the Moon" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z7GGiXRAo0
Interesting read: "Volumetric fog: Unified, compute shader based solution to atmospheric scattering" http://bartwronski.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/bwronski_volumetric_fog_siggraph2014.pdf (PDF | 5.5MB)
Interesting read: "Render Hell 1.0" http://simonschreibt.de/gat/renderhell/
Interesting read: "Inside Metro: Last Light" http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-inside-metro-last-light
Interesting read: "Introduction to Steering Behaviours" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/JuanFelipeBelonPerez/20140724/221421/Introduction_to_Steering_Behaviours.php
Interesting read: "A Comprehensive Guide to Submitting to the Asset Store" http://markwahnish.com/?name=48
Interesting read: "Monte-Carlo Tree Search in TOTAL WAR: ROME II’s Campaign AI" http://aigamedev.com/open/coverage/mcts-rome-ii/
Interesting video: "Business 101 for Indies with Dan Adelman (IGDA Webinar)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH8-N7DtQt8
Interesting read: "My tips on how to plan a game, stay motivated and get it finished." http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/2d89kj/my_tips_on_how_to_plan_a_game_stay_motivated_and/
Interesting read: "Postmortem: Irrational Games' System Shock 2" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131813/postmortem_irrational_games_.php
Interesting talk: "Twenty Years after Doom: John Carmack on the Future of Engineering Virtual Worlds" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOzkUKJCxTw
Interesting read: "Let's Compile like it's 1992 (Wolfenstein 3D)" http://fabiensanglard.net/Compile_Like_Its_1992/
Interesting video: "DOOM MYST 20 Years After" http://vimeo.com/92838909

Interesting links (July 2014)

2014-08-11T10:11:00.001+02:00

Interesting read: "How TerraTech uses steganography for sharing player-generated content" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RussClarke/20140718/220932/How_TerraTech_uses_steganography_for_sharing_playergenerated_content.php
Interesting read: "Mixing Sweet Beats in Unity 5.0" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/07/24/mixing-sweet-beats-in-unity-5-0/
Interesting read: "A Game Artist’s Guide Back to Creativity" http://gametextures.com/blog/2014/07/09/a-game-artists-guide-to-xen/
Interesting video: "BORDERLANDS style TEXTURE tutorial!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOQ0aspIn9c
Interesting read: "CryEngine: Engine as a service" http://www.theautomaters.com/cryengine-as-a-service/
Interesting read: "Maniac Mansion Design Doc" http://grumpygamer.com/maniac_mansion_design_doc
Interesting read: "Hemicube Rendering and Integration" http://the-witness.net/news/2010/09/hemicube-rendering-and-integration/
Interesting read: "Game Developer Salary Survey 2014: The results are in!" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/221533/Game_Developer_Salary_Survey_2014_The_results_are_in.php
Interesting read: "How to sell on the Asset Store (and various tips on selling/buying)" http://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/2b9m9n/how_to_sell_on_the_asset_store_and_various_tips/
Interesting read: "A Darkest Dungeon Kickstarter Post-Mortem (Part 2)" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/TylerSigman/20140718/218975/A_Darkest_Dungeon_Kickstarter_PostMortem_Part_2.php
Interesting read: "A* Pathfinding for Beginners" http://www.policyalmanac.org/games/aStarTutorial.htm
Interesting read: "Editorial: Why Steam Needs To Give New Releases A Chance" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/07/21/steam-new-releases-broken/
Interesting video: "Digital Computer Techniques: Programming (1962) - AT&T Archives" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFZecokdHLo
Interesting read: "Anatomy of a system call, part 2" http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/604515/7970195bd8eba7a9/

Interesting read & photos: "Standing on Venus in 1975" http://planetimages.blogspot.com.es/2014/07/standing-on-venus-in-1975.html
Interesting read: "The Real Story of Hacking Together the Commodore C128" http://hackaday.com/2013/12/09/guest-post-the-real-story-of-hacking-together-the-commodore-c128/
Interesting video: "Headcrabs - ValveTime Database: Episode 1" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABpZlkixoFU
Interesting video: "Meet the Raspberry Pi Model B+" http://vimeo.com/100672310
Interesting photos: "45 Years Ago We Landed Men on the Moon" http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/07/45-years-ago-we-landed-men-on-the-moon/100775/
Interesting list: "The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-book-guide-and-list
Interesting read: "Interview with Demoscener – kb (Farbrausch)" http://6octaves.blogspot.jp/2014/07/interview-with-demoscener-kb-farbrausch.html
Interesting read: "Behavior trees for AI: How they work" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/ChrisSimpson/20140717/221339/Behavior_trees_for_AI_How_they_work.php
Interesting read: "Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing (FXAA)" http://blog.codinghorror.com/fast-approximate-anti-aliasing-fxaa/
Interesting read: "MMOs and modern scaling techniques" http://www.gamedev.net/topic/657588-mmos-and-modern-scaling-techniques/
Interesting read: "Indie game, indie trailer. Tips for making a trailer" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RoqueRey/20140703/220298/Indie_game_indie_trailer_Tips_for_making_a_trailer.php
Interesting read: "How To Make Videos For Games" http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/business/production-and-management/how-to-make-videos-for-games-r3683
Interesting read: "Camera Map Your Teaser Trailer" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/KoenDeetman/20140714/221001/Camera_Map_Your_Teaser_Trailer.php
Interesting read: "Irradiance Caching" Part 1 http://the-witness.net/news/2011/07/irradiance-caching-part-1/ … & Part 2 http://www.ludicon.com/castano/blog/2014/07/irradiance-caching-continued/
Interesting video: "formulanimations tutorial :: the principles of painting with maths" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ifChJ0nJfM
Interesting video: "Design Club - Super Mario Bros: Level 1-1 - Game Analysis" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH2wGpEZVgE
Interesting read: "Graphics Tech: Shadow Maps" Part 1 http://the-witness.net/news/2010/03/graphics-tech-shadow-maps-part-1/ & Part 2 http://the-witness.net/news/2010/04/graphics-tech-shadow-maps-part-2-save-25-texture-memory-and-possibly-much-more/
Interesting post: "Tutorial Hoarder's Dump" http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=137096
Interesting read: "Think Before You Bundle" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JoshFairhurst/20140710/220768/Think_Before_You_Bundle.php
Interesting read: "What I mean when I say 'I think VR is bad news'" https://gist.github.com/rygorous/251b945aef2046ac7cee
Interesting read: "A Quest for the Secret Origins of Lost Video-Game Levels" http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/a-quest-to-find-the-secret-origins-of-lost-video-game-levels/373925/
Interesting video: "Game of Thrones, Season 4 – VFX making of reel" http://vimeo.com/100095868
Interesting read: "Cache coherency primer" http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2014/07/07/cache-coherency/
Interesting read: "Sun Sends More 'Tsunami Waves' to Voyager 1" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-221
Interesting photo: "NASA Mars Orbiter Views Rover Crossing Into New Zone" http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1665
Interesting read: "Maze, building your own randomized place" http://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/maze/
Interesting video: "Materialing Alpha - Free Photoshop PBR Material Painting" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MU3M6xqhe4
Interesting read: "[PBR] Physically Based Rendering Encyclopedia" http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=136390
Interesting read: "Serialization in Unity" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/06/24/serialization-in-unity/
Interesting read: "Working on The Witness, Part 8 - A Brief Addendum on Staggered Concentric Intersection" http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0016.html
Interesting read: "The Playtime Principle: Mining 5 Billion Hours of Play on Steam" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AndersDrachen/20140707/220410/The_Playtime_Principle_Mining_5_Billion_Hours_of_Play_on_Steam.php
Interesting read: "High-performance physics in Unity 5" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/07/08/high-performance-physics-in-unity-5/
Interesting read: "The Making Of: Fuel" http://www.edge-online.com/features/making-fuel/
Interesting read: "Fuel: Roads" http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=5237 & "Fuel: Terrain" http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=5267
Interesting code: "RakNet (cross platform, open source, C++ networking engine)" https://github.com/OculusVR/RakNet
Interesting video: "Extra Credits: How To Start Your Game Narrative" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22HoViH4vOU
Interesting videos: "Making an 'Angry Birds' style game" Part1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0tl0CwPYIc & Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXBQk1ocxNQ
Interesting read: "We Are Now In Command of the ISEE-3 Spacecraft" http://spacecollege.org/isee3/we-are-now-in-command-of-the-isee-3-spacecraft.html
Interesting read: "Able Archer 83" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83
Interesting read: "Kids Can't Use Computers... And This Is Why It Should Worry You" http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/
Interesting read: "What actually happens when you plug in a USB device?" https://www.technovelty.org/linux/what-actually-happens-when-you-plug-in-a-usb-device.html
Interesting read: "More punk, less hell! (An extraordinary political experiment took place in Iceland...)" http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ausland/europa/More-punk-less-hell/story/10069405
Interesting read: "Dear NSA, Privacy is a Fundamental Right, Not Reasonable Suspicion" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/dear-nsa-privacy-fundamental-right-not-reasonable-suspicion
Interesting free asset: "Typogenic - Signed-distance field text rendering for Unity3D" https://github.com/Chman/Typogenic
Interesting read: "How we learned to stop worrying and love early access" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/MatthewViglione/20140701/220024/How_we_learned_to_stop_worrying_and_love_early_access.php
Interesting video: "Extra Credits - Early Access - The Problem with Unfinished Games" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmLz00L6CmY
Interesting read: "Bone-Based Unity 2D Animation" Part 1 http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/bone-based-unity-2d-animation-introduction--cms-21364 & Part 2 http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/bone-based-unity-2d-animation-creating-the-actual-animations--cms-21366
Interesting read: "What have you learned from the latest Steam sale?" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/219368/What_have_you_learned_from_the_latest_Steam_sale.php
Interesting post: "Ocean surface effects in Unity" http://scrawkblog.com/2013/02/24/ocean-renderer-for-unity/
Interesting read: "Unity: make your lists functional with ReorderableList" http://va.lent.in/unity-make-your-lists-functional-with-reorderablelist/
Interesting read: "Elite (or, The Universe on 32 K Per Day)" http://www.filfre.net/2013/12/elite/ & "Masters of their universe" http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/18/features.weekend
Interesting videos: "Memories of Elite" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpN_WXUxWx0 … & "The Making of Elite" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rapa3VfUWfs
Interesting video: "Unity 4.6 - New UI World Space Canvas" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzt1rEEdeOI
Interesting videos: "Math for Game Developers" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW3Zl3wyJwWOpdhYedlD-yCB7WQoHf-My
Interesting videos: "Developer Commentary, Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5X8LHBHCqpKZe3i7IW2mh6zO8xY0niz9

Interesting links (June 2014)

2014-07-01T09:54:00.001+02:00

Interesting video: "RimWorld Technology - Region System" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMBQn_sg7DA
Interesting read: "Dissecting the 128-byte raycaster" http://finalpatch.blogspot.com/2014/06/dissecting-128-byte-raycaster.html
Interesting video: "Women as Background Decoration: Part 1 - Tropes vs Women in Video Games" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZPSrwedvsg
Interesting read: "The Lambda Calculus for Absolute Dummies (like myself)" http://palmstroem.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/lambda-calculus-for-absolute-dummies.html
Interesting read: "How to Beat a YouTube ContentID Copyright Claim – What every Gamer and MCN Should Know" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/StephenMcArthur/20140624/219589/How_to_Beat_a_YouTube_ContentID_Copyright_Claim__What_every_Gamer_and_MCN_Should_Know.php
Interesting read: "NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Marks First Martian Year with Mission Successes" http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/june/nasa-s-mars-curiosity-rover-marks-first-martian-year-with-mission-successes/index.html
Interesting read: "Far Cry: How the Fire Burns and Spreads" http://jflevesque.com/2012/12/06/far-cry-how-the-fire-burns-and-spreads/
Interesting videos: "Quest Design I - Extra Credits" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otAkP5VjIv8 & "Quest Design II" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur6GQp5mCYs
Interesting talk: "Elysian Shadows IGDA Huntsville Presentation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-_O8E5zbiY
Interesting read: "Pathfinding and Local Avoidance for RPG/RTS Games using Unity" http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/game-programming/pathfinding-and-local-avoidance-for-rpgrts-games-using-unity-r3703
Interesting read: "Normal Map Photography" http://www.zarria.net/nrmphoto/nrmphoto.html

Interesting read: "After One Week On Steam Greenlight…" http://www.fromdustscratch.com/2014/06/after-one-week-on-steam-greenlight/
Interesting talk: "Unity 2D Common issues and how to solve them" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMCLWt1DuqI
Interesting read: "Obstacle Avoidance A.I." http://thewaterbear.com/obstacle-avoidance-a-i/
Interesting read: "Using the HTML5 Gamepad API to Add Controller Support to Browser Games" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/using-the-html5-gamepad-api-to-add-controller-support-to-browser-games--cms-21345
Interesting read: "Unity5: API changes & automatic script updating" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/06/23/unity5-api-changes-automatic-script-updating/
Interesting read: "DOOM on ZPU" http://turbogrill.blogspot.ca/2014/06/doom-on-zpu.html
Interesting read: "Programming Pi Games With Bare Metal Assembly" http://hackaday.com/2014/06/23/programming-pi-games-with-bare-metal-assembly/
Interesting video: "Unity: Bring your character alive with Mecanim! (DevGAMM Moscow 2014)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWrKpVvRIlQ
Interesting read: "War Thunder: Ground Forces Damage Model" Part 1 http://warthunder.com/en/news/384-Developers-Diaries-Ground-Forces-Damage-Model-Part-1-en … & Part 2 http://warthunder.com/en/news/387-Developers-Diaries-Ground-Forces-Damage-Model-Part-2-en/
Interesting read: "Profiling Primer" http://overbyte.com.au/index.php/overbyte-blog/entry/a-profiling-primer & "Optimisation Lesson: Profiling" http://overbyte.com.au/index.php/overbyte-blog/entry/optimisation-lesson-1-profiling
Interesting video: "3dfx Oral History Panel with Ross Smith, Scott Sellers, Gary Tarolli, and Gordon Campbell" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MghYhf-GhU
Interesting read: "Errors detected in Open Source projects (PVS-Studio - static analysis)" http://www.viva64.com/en/examples/
Interesting read: "The Witcher game that never was" http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-06-16-the-witcher-game-that-never-was
Interesting read: "Emacs Mini Manual (PART 1) - THE BASICS" http://tuhdo.github.io/emacs-tutor.html
Interesting video: "E3 2014: Coverage Uncovered - Ride along with the Giant Bomb editorial team..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9hjwVxdWHs
Interesting read: "GOG: Gamers Don't Need DRM Because They Aren't Criminals" http://www.gamespot.com/articles/gog-gamers-don-t-need-drm-because-they-aren-t-criminals/1100-6420582/
Interesting video: "The Game That Time Forgot" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b0tSu0QDQ0
Interesting website: "Game accessibility guidelines | A straightforward reference for inclusive game design" http://gameaccessibilityguidelines.com/
Interesting video: "This Is Phil Fish - A case study in internet celebrity" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmTUW-owa2w
Interesting video: "Unity Internals: Memory and Performance (DevGAMM Moscow 2014)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcOFTmG7TbA
Interesting post: "Unity 4.2 - Stencils for portal rendering" http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/unity-4-2-stencils-for-portal-rendering.191890/
Interesting free ebook: "Master the Art of Unreal Engine 4 - Blueprints" https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?10221-BOOK-Blueprints-Master-the-Art-of-Unreal-Engine-4-Blueprints&p=76929#post76929
Interesting videos: "2D Game Art for Non-Artists" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt_Y3Hw1v3QTsLeihLYhHLkDV0dFTWDSS
Interesting read: "Down From the Top of Its Game. The Story of Infocom, Inc." (PDF | 9.0MB) http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2000/infocom/infocom-paper.pdf
Interesting read: "The Ten Most Important Video Game Patents" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/130152/the_ten_most_important_video_game_.php?print=1
Interesting videos: "Creating 2D Games in Unity 4.5" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt_Y3Hw1v3QSFdh-evJbfkxCK_bjUD37n
Interesting read: "A Long-Awaited Check of Unreal Engine 4" http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0249/
Interesting read: "All about the Unity networking transport layer" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/06/11/all-about-the-unity-networking-transport-layer/
Interesting read: "The Last Line Effect" http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0260/
Interesting video: "Curiosity Spots Mercury Transiting Sun" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSqW0ao4PDA
Interesting read: "All Our Patent Are Belong To You - By Elon Musk, Tesla CEO" http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
Interesting read: "Arduino Uno output to VGA monitor" http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=11608
Interesting video: "interrupter gear or machine gun synchronizer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faZiS1CYZs0
Interesting video: "Hubble: Timelapse of V838 Monocerotis (2002-2006)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1fvMSs9cps
Interesting website: "Conference Presentations | AMD" http://developer.amd.com/resources/documentation-articles/conference-presentations/
Interesting read: "Materials that need Forward Shading" http://www.filmicworlds.com/2014/05/31/materials-that-need-forward-shading/
Interesting videos: "Watch Dogs: IGN's Exclusive Making Of Series" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLraFbwCoisJDaNFgPgdBXFOoV_ZJdFVHd
Interesting video: "Audio in Unity 5 with Wayne Johnson from Unity Technologies" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snvVIjAp4dc
Interesting read: "Getting Your Game Greenlit In 2014" http://blog.gambrinous.com/2014/06/11/getting-your-game-greenlit-in-2014/
Interesting read: "What’s the big deal with Apples Metal API?" http://renderingpipeline.com/2014/06/whats-the-big-deal-with-apples-metal-api/
Interesting read: "Fun with Pixel Shaders!" http://dallinwellington.com/rendering/fun-with-pixel-shaders/
Interesting read: "Should You Polish Your Game, or Add More Depth and Features?" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/articles/should-you-polish-your-game-or-add-more-depth-and-features--cms-21155
Interesting read: "Postmortem: DreamWorks Interactive's Trespasser" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131746/postmortem_dreamworks_.php?print=1
Interesting read: "Jurassic Park: Trespasser CG Source Code Review" http://fabiensanglard.net/trespasser/index.php
Interesting read: "Create a Hockey Game Using Steering Behaviors: Part 1": http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/create-a-hockey-game-using-steering-behaviors-foundation--cms-20971 … & "Part 2" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/create-a-hockey-game-using-steering-behaviors-attack--cms-20974
Interesting read: "What's it like being a game developer?" http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/26cgni/whats_it_like_being_a_game_developer/
Interesting read: "Pathfinding Demystified" http://gabrielgambetta.com/path1.html
Interesting read: "Tips for Designing for Colorblind Users" http://designshack.net/articles/accessibility/tips-for-designing-for-colorblind-users/
Interesting read: "Build Arkanoid With Unity: Part 3" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/build-arkanoid-with-unity-block-mechanics-prefabs-and-level-design--cms-20861 … & "Part 4" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/build-arkanoid-with-unity-audio-new-levels-and-deployment--cms-20862
Interesting read: "The boy who stole Half-Life 2" http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-stole-half-life-2-article
Interesting news: "Pixar to give away 'Toy Story' 3D RenderMan software" http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27677712
Interesting read: "The Game Boy Pocket Raspi Mod Puts All Others To Shame" http://hackaday.com/2014/06/05/the-game-boy-pocket-rapi-mod-puts-all-others-to-shame/
Interesting read: "Email Self-Defense - a guide to fighting surveillance with GnuPG" https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/
Interesting read: "10 Secrets You Should Have Learned with Your Software Engineering Degree" http://blog.newrelic.com/2014/06/03/10-secrets-learned-software-engineering-degree-probably-didnt/
Interesting read: "A eulogy to the NHS: What happened to the world my generation built?" http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/04/coalition-attacks-nhs-return-britain-age-workhouse
Interesting read: "Rate my API" http://c0de517e.blogspot.ca/2014/06/rate-my-api.html
Interesting read: "Free User Interface Resources For Indie Game Developers" http://indiestatik.com/2014/06/03/free-indie-game-ui-resources/
Interesting source code: "Flat Rock Software (Catacomb, Hovertank3D...)" https://github.com/FlatRockSoft/
Interesting read: "A first-person engine in 265 lines" http://www.playfuljs.com/a-first-person-engine-in-265-lines/
Interesting read: "YOU: How does the law work? ME: Like this. FREE LEGAL AMA" http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/2783uk/you_how_does_the_law_work_me_like_this_free_legal/
Interesting read: "Introducing Launch Now and Simplified Rules - The Kickstarter Blog" https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/introducing-launch-now-and-simplified-rules-0
Interesting read: "Interesting things in Unity 4.5 you probably didn't know about" http://va.lent.in/interesting-things-in-unity-4-5-you-probably-didnt-know-about/
Interesting read: "Using the Hero's Journey in Games" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131527/using_the_heros_journey_in_games.php?print=1
Interesting video: "Introduction to Unity from a 2D perspective" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZyDg2qEEbM
Interesting read: "The identity paradox: why game characters are not us, but should be" http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/24/the-identity-paradox-why-game-characters-are-not-but-should-be
Interesting read: "The Audacity of Scope" http://odiousrepeater.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/the-audacity-of-scope/
Interesting read: "How We Made a PS Vita Game With Zero Budget" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/articles/how-we-made-a-ps-vita-game-with-zero-budget--cms-21184
Interesting read: "Twilight Princess Eyes Breakdown" http://www.benjones.us/twilight-princess-eyes-breakdown/
Interesting website: "Vlambeer toolkit & link repository" http://vlambeer.com/toolkit/
Interesting read: "Retro Game Internals (major game systems in the NES game Contra)" http://tomorrowcorporation.com/posts/retro-game-internals
Interesting read: "Be a kernel hacker: Write your first Linux Kernel module" http://www.linuxvoice.com/be-a-kernel-hacker/
Interesting videos: "Tim Plays Grim Fandango: Part 1" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3IidGmVLo4 … & "Full Throttle: Part 1" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE0Cf1JWsAg
Interesting video: "Rise and shine - Athlete and running ultimate motivation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuPLxQD4akQ

Interesting links (May 2014)

2014-06-01T09:37:00.000+02:00

Interesting video: "A* search algorithm visualizer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiZVRTDb_Ns
Interesting video: "Artificial Intelligence: Skyrim - The Elder Scrolls V, Video 01" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXd6CQRTNek
Interesting read: "Creating a Machinima game trailer with Unity" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/PeterCardwellGardner/20140527/218604/Creating_a_Machinima_game_trailer_with_Unity.php?print=1
Interesting list: "resources, tutorials, and explanations from r/gamedev" http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/25raup/i_compiled_a_rather_large_list_of_resources/
Interesting video: "Unity 4.6 - New UI System overview" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOX6itCuKOc
Interesting video: "Why Excessive Features Are Killing Big Games (Battlefield 4 Gameplay/Commentary)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvQCBCpZSBA
Interesting slides: "Cinematic System | Insomniac Games" http://www.insomniacgames.com/cinematic-system/
Interesting read: "How to tidy your Unity code by putting it in a DLL" http://t-machine.org/index.php/2014/05/24/how-to-tidy-your-unity-code-by-putting-it-in-a-dll/
Interesting read: "Guns of Icarus Online Post-Mortem - Part III: Lessons from Two Kickstarters" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/HowardTsao/20140522/218387/Guns_of_Icarus_Online_PostMortem__Part_III_Lessons_from_Two_Kickstarters.php?print=1
Interesting read: "The challenge and saga of Zombie Pathfinding" http://dayzdev.tumblr.com/post/85919354781/the-challenge-and-saga-of-zombie-pathfinding
Interesting list: "Game Engine Unity Learning Resources" http://www.virtualgamelab.com/unity-resources.html
Interesting video: "Keep Paddling - A Thought For Game Developers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRjnf8ksgWA

Interesting video: "Ralph H. Baer en Bill Harrison playing Video Ping-Pong in 1969" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWiyxIBfrsI
Interesting video: "Kids react to old computers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF7EpEnglgk
Interesting read: "Why 'Watch Dogs' Is Bad News For AMD Users..." http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2014/05/26/why-watch-dogs-is-bad-news-for-amd-users-and-potentially-the-entire-pc-gaming-ecosystem/ & "Nvidia Fires Back..." http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2014/05/28/nvidia-fires-back-the-truth-about-gameworks-amd-optimization-and-watch-dogs/
Interesting read: "Defining Boundaries: Creating Credible Obstacles In Games" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132106/defining_boundaries_creating_.php?print=1 & http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132165/defining_boundaries_creating_.php?print=1
Interesting read: "Megatextures in Rage" http://renderingpipeline.com/2012/03/megatextures-in-rage/
Interesting video: "Live Training: Top Down 2D Games" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv2QSvuwIDs
Interesting read: "Introduction to 3D" http://flippednormals.com/introduction-3d/
Interesting read: "Week in Tech: Cheap 4K, Adaptive-Sync, DP1.2a, Screens!" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/05/15/cheap-4k-monitor/
Interesting photo: "NASA Rover Gains Martian Vista From Ridgeline" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-157
Interesting read: "The Inside Story of Oculus Rift and How Virtual Reality Became Reality" http://www.wired.com/2014/05/oculus-rift-4/
Interesting image: "50 Years of Exploration" http://www.5wgraphics.com/img/newsletter/50-years-of-exploration.jpg
Interesting read: "How Soviet Artists Imagined Communist Life in Space" http://io9.com/how-soviet-artists-imagined-communist-life-in-space-1558140402
Interesting read: "The Indie Bubble Is Popping" http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.de/2014/05/the-indie-bubble-is-popping.html
Interesting read: "MotorStorm: Behind The Tracks" Part 1: http://www.team-aozora.com/2014/03/motorstorm-behind-the-tracks-part-1/ Part 2: http://www.team-aozora.com/2014/03/motorstorm-behind-the-tracks-part-2/
Interesting video: "Making of The Elderscroll V Skyrim" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX1qAxc_OX0
Interesting video: "The Making of Fallout 3" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr5olzm9jXg
Interesting video: "Making of Fallout: New Vegas" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfkDk_TDJUE
Interesting video: "The Making of Oblivion" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvm0CN3tQFI
Interesting read: "AI in Games: The Minds Behind the War for Cybertron" http://t2thompson.com/2014/03/16/ai-of-transformers/
Interesting read: "Adopting a physically based shading model" http://seblagarde.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/hello-world/
Interesting read: "Costs of Unreal 4 versus Unity" http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/25yxl5/costs_of_unreal_4_versus_unity/
Interesting video: "ITSP Camera Explained" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAKwZt3aXQM
Interesting video: "Super Mario World Camera Logic Review" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCIMPYM0AQg
Interesting read: "An Analysis of Super Metroid’s camera code" http://suppressivefiregames.tumblr.com/post/85891843723/an-analysis-of-super-metroids-camera-code-and-using
Interesting read: "The Poor Man’s Dialogue Tree" http://et1337.com/2014/05/16/the-poor-mans-dialogue-tree/
Interesting read: "Build Arkanoid With Unity" Part 1 http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/build-arkanoid-with-unity-project-setup--cms-20767 … Part 2 http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/build-arkanoid-with-unity-player-and-ball-mechanics--cms-20860
Interesting read: "New Steam games vie for visibility against older back catalog games" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/217877/New_Steam_games_vie_for_visibility_against_older_back_catalog_games.php
Interesting webcomic: "What it's like to own a Tesla Model S" http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla_model_s
Interesting read: "Why Oracle’s Copyright Victory Over Google Is Bad News for Everyone" http://www.wired.com/2014/05/oracle-copyright/
Interesting read: "Chernobyl: Capping a Catastrophe" http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/27/science/chernobyl-capping-a-catastrophe.html
Interesting read: "RPG Codex Top 70 PC RPGs (Now with User Reviews!)" http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=9453
Interesting read: "How CD Projekt RED fought the publishers to win their independence" http://www.pcgamesn.com/how-cd-projekt-red-fought-publishers-win-their-independence
Interesting read: "Is there any evidence of a link between violent video games and murder?" http://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2014/may/06/violent-video-games-murder-aggression-ann-maguire
Interesting video: "Making of Gabriel Knight" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhFamZMyDK0
Interesting read: "How the surge of Steam releases will affect game developers" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/217583/How_the_surge_of_Steam_releases_will_affect_game_developers.php
Interesting read: "AI Directors Case Study #11: SAINTS ROW IV Notoriety System" http://aigamedev.com/open/coverage/notoriety-saints-row-4/
Interesting read: "Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart" http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/14/firefox-closed-source-drm-video-browser-cory-doctorow
Interesting read: "AI in Games: Facing Your F.E.A.R" http://t2thompson.com/2014/03/02/facing-your-fear/
Interesting read: "How to Use BSP Trees to Generate Game Maps" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-use-bsp-trees-to-generate-game-maps--gamedev-12268
Interesting talk: "Advanced Lighting Techniques in Unity" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020833/Unity-Technologies-Developer-Day-
Interesting video: "The Making of The 7th Guest" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0IX4ajhlLA#t=0m34s
Interesting read: "Blender to Unity Workflow!" http://www.zakjr.com/blog/?p=25
Interesting read: "No Bullshit Pixel Art Tutorial" http://pixelartus.com/post/85312310886/retronator-no-bullshit-pixel-art-tutorial
Interesting video: "Tim Schafer Plays "Day of the Tentacle" Part 1" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qumYnE2wYhA
Interesting read: "The ups and downs of doing online multiplayer as an indie" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/217434/the_ups_and_downs_of_doing_online_.php?print=1
Interesting read: "Get prepared for Unity 5 - The dreaded '.' " http://darkgenesis.zenithmoon.com/get-prepared-for-unity-5-the-dreaded/ … & http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/245400-Unity-5-Beta-Insights
Interesting read: "AI and Games: Arkham Intelligence" http://t2thompson.com/2014/05/05/arkham-intelligence/
Interesting talk: "Why Virtual Reality Isn't (Just) the Next Big Platform (Michael Abrash & Dov Katz)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxbh-TM5yNc
Interesting read: "Making Fract as a family" http://www.polygon.com/features/2014/5/8/5687794/fract-phosfiend-systems
Interesting read: "How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch" http://gizmodo.com/how-steve-wozniak-wrote-basic-for-the-original-apple-fr-1570573636
Interesting photos: "World War I in Photos" http://www.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/wwi/
Interesting read: "How Munich switched 15,000 PCs from Windows to Linux" http://www.linuxvoice.com/the-big-switch/
Interesting read: "The fall of Towns" http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-05-09-the-fall-of-towns
Interesting read: "NASA Delivers New Insight into Star Cluster Formation" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-144
Interesting read: "International Day Against DRM: It's Time to Fix U.S. Copyright Law" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/understanding-digital-rights-management-international-day-against-drm
Interesting read: "Smoothen your functions" http://c0de517e.blogspot.com/2014/04/smoothen-your-functions.html
Interesting read: "In Defense of Early Access" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/BradCarney/20140505/216943/In_Defense_of_Early_Access.php?print=1
Interesting read: "An Analysis of Minecraft-like Engines" http://0fps.net/2012/01/14/an-analysis-of-minecraft-like-engines/
Interesting read: "Pxtone FULL MANUAL - How to Create Cool Music for Videogames" http://www.gr87.com/?page_id=64
Interesting videos: "Developer Commentary: Left 4 Dead" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk97JHRtKrIos3XbxnA0tRlH46EXMpA-Q & "Left 4 Dead 2" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INR1q9B1XVQ&index=2&list=PLk97JHRtKrIrEP21bTOhzI4nrn7wTidk-
Interesting read: "The Nebraska Problem - Working on The Witness Part 7" http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0015.html
Interesting read: "Alien: Isolation and The Two Hardest Problems in Horror" http://frictionalgames.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/alien-isolation-and-two-hardest_5.html
Interesting read: "Greenlight Forever" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/PetrucioStange/20140504/216928/Greenlight_Forever.php
Interesting read: "Infinite Possibilities – Why the idea of the Auteur Game is Irrational" http://odiousrepeater.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/infinite-possibilities-why-the-idea-of-the-auteur-game-is-irrational/
Interesting read: "The Art of Infection" https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10197361/ArtPostMortem.html
Interesting video: "The Making of MYST" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94pzx_9LkVI
Interesting read: "Visually pleasing distributions - Working on The Witness Part 5" http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0013.html & "Part 6" http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0014.html
Interesting talk: "Animation Bootcamp: An Indie Approach to Procedural Animation (David Rosen)" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020583/Animation-Bootcamp-An-Indie-Approach
Interesting podcast: "Tone Control - Conversations with Video Game Developers" https://www.idlethumbs.net/tonecontrol/episodes
Interesting read: "Indie Advice: why you probably shouldn’t make a multiplayer game" http://www.sizefivegames.com/2014/05/02/indie-advice-why-you-probably-shouldnt-make-a-multiplayer-game/
Interesting read: "How one of gaming's most enduring personalities escaped obscurity" http://www.polygon.com/features/2014/5/2/5613114/wasteland-2-fallout-brian-fargo
Interesting talk: "Linux Sucks - 2014" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pOxlazS3zs
Interesting read: "Programming Sucks" http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
Interesting stream: "ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment" http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/ & http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload
Interesting photo: "Curiosity Sol 613" http://www.db-prods.net/marsroversimages/curiosity-2014.html#81
Interesting read: "A basic history of BASIC on its 50th birthday" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/216469/A_basic_history_of_BASIC_on_its_50th_birthday.php
Interesting video: "Serious Sam 3 Making of" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxUutm2X01w
Interesting videos: "Unreal Engine 4 Beginner Tutorial Series" http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL0cLF8gjBpqDdMoeid6Vl5roMl6xJQGC
Interesting read: "Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600" http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/ #programming
Interesting read: "Dude, Where’s My Game – The Truth and Lies of Delays and Cancellations" http://odiousrepeater.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/dude-wheres-my-game-the-truth-and-lies-of-delays-and-cancellations/
Interesting read: "4-Layers, A Narrative Design Approach" http://frictionalgames.blogspot.se/2014/04/4-layers-narrative-design-approach.html
Interesting read: "Working on The Witness, Part 3" http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0008.html & "Part 4" http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0009.html

Interesting links (April 2014)

2014-05-01T09:04:00.002+02:00

Interesting talk: "Crafting Destruction: The Evolution of the Dead Space User Interface (Dino Ignacio)" http://gdcvault.com/play/1017723/Crafting-Destruction-The-Evolution-of
Interesting read: "Create Custom Binary File Formats for Your Game's Data" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/create-custom-binary-file-formats-for-your-games-data--gamedev-206 & "Read and Write" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-read-and-write-binary-data-for-your-custom-file-formats--gamedev-12159
Interesting read: "Manipulating Meshes in Unity3D" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DenizOpal/20120922/178132/Manipulating_Meshes_in_Unity3D.php?print=1
Interesting read: "Why We Went With Mantle (Firaxis Games)" http://www.firaxis.com/?/blog/single/why-we-went-with-mantle
Interesting read: "Finding and fixing a five-second stall - Working on The Witness, Part 2" http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0007.html
Interesting video: "The Dig: Xbox Entertainment Studios Unearths E.T. Cartridges" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jHpOsJQaHM
Interesting read: "Designing around a core mechanic" http://www.funstormgames.com/blog/2012/06/designing-around-a-core-mechanic/
Interesting read: "Deep Snow Prints" http://dougvfx.blogspot.com.es/2013/07/deep-snow-prints.html
Interesting read: "Code Optimization in Unity : Part 2" http://robotduck.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/code-optimization-in-unity-part-2/
Interesting read: "Inside the battles of 300: Rise of an Empire" http://www.fxguide.com/featured/inside-the-battles-of-300-rise-of-an-empire/

Interesting read: "Zero to 95,688: How I wrote Game Programming Patterns" http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2014/04/22/zero-to-95688-how-i-wrote-game-programming-patterns/
Interesting video: "PAX East 2014: The Giant Bomb Panel" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5LDp3ttWME
Interesting talk: "The Sound of Grand Theft Auto V" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020587/The-Sound-of-Grand-Theft
Interesting videos: "Developer Walkthrough: Call of Duty" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk97JHRtKrIoyasMMyVJGSce8_EWKZZqy
Interesting read: "Unity Networking – The Pong Game" http://www.packtpub.com/article/unity-networking-pong-game
Interesting read: "Art directing effects for inFAMOUS: Second Son" http://www.fxguide.com/featured/art-directing-effects-for-infamous-second-son/
Interesting talk: "The Story of CAVE STORY (Daisuke 'Pixel' Amaya)" http://gdcvault.com/play/1014621/The-Story-of-CAVE
Interesting read: "The New Curiosity Shop: Itch.io Interview" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/04/23/steam-itch-io-digital-retail-interview/
Interesting read: "Working on The Witness, Part 1: Mapping the island's walkable surfaces" http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0006.html
Interesting talk: "Jiro Dreams of Game Design (Brenda Romero)" http://gdcvault.com/play/1020496/Jiro-Dreams-of-Game
Interesting website: "Game Mechanic Explorer" http://gamemechanicexplorer.com/#
Interesting video: "We Play Doom With John Romero" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUU7_BthBWM
Interesting read: "The Wizardry of Id" http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/gaming/the-wizardry-of-id
Interesting video: "Making of Doom 3" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uxCYkh--q0
Interesting talk: "Ellie: Buddy AI in The Last of Us (Max Dyckhoff)" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020364/Ellie-Buddy-AI-in-The
Interesting read: "Dynamic Global Illumination in Fable Legends" http://www.lionhead.com/blog/2014/april/17/dynamic-global-illumination-in-fable-legends/
Interesting read: "Rapture leaked: The true story behind the making of BioShock" http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-04-17-the-true-story-of-bioshock
Interesting read: "Beej's Guide to Network Programming Using Internet Sockets" http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/singlepage/bgnet.html
Interesting read: "How VFX saved Washington: Olympus Has Fallen" http://www.fxguide.com/featured/how-vfx-saved-washington-olympus-has-fallen/
Interesting read/photo: "NASA Mars Orbiter Spies Rover Near Martian Butte" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-116
Interesting talk: "Narrative Legos (Ken Levine)" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020434/Narrative
Interesting read: "Introduction to Coroutines" http://unitypatterns.com/introduction-to-coroutines/ … & "Scripting with Coroutines" http://unitypatterns.com/scripting-with-coroutines/
Interesting read: "Indie Advice: How to get Brillo Game Voice Overs" http://www.sizefivegames.com/2014/04/17/indie-advice-how-to-get-brillo-game-voice-overs/
Interesting talk: "Classic Game Postmortem: Myst" http://gdcvault.com/play/1018048/Classic-Game-Postmortem
Interesting talk: "Game Development with SDL 2.0" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeMPCSqQ-34
Interesting read: "Programmatically Generating Meshes In Unity3D" http://kobolds-keep.net/?p=33
Interesting talk: "Using YouTube to Market Your Indie Game" http://gdcvault.com/play/1020499/Using-YouTube-to-Market-Your
Interesting read: "Indie Advice: Working with Freelancers" http://www.sizefivegames.com/2014/04/11/how-to-deal-with-freelancers/
Interesting videos: "Adventures in Game Development" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8F065F0F4548444C
Interesting video: "Live Training 7 Apr 2014 - Object Pooling" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-zDOJllPZ8
Interesting talk: "Antichamber: Three Years of Hardcore Iteration" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020586/Antichamber-Three-Years-of-Hardcore
Interesting read: "Turn your character into a player!" http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/04/14/turn-your-character-into-a-player/
Interesting read: "Windows AC/Row/Infinite" http://simonschreibt.de/gat/windows-ac-row-ininite/
Interesting talk: "Creating BioShock Infinite's Elizabeth" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020545/Creating-BioShock-Infinite-s
Interesting read: "A Long-Awaited Check of Unreal Engine 4" http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0249/
Interesting webcomic: "xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation" http://xkcd.com/1354/
Interesting read: "Arduino BASIC Shield" http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-BASIC-Shield/?ALLSTEPS
Interesting read: "The dark side: behind the VFX of Thor: The Dark World" http://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-dark-side-behind-the-vfx-of-thor-the-dark-world/
Interesting talk: "The Art of The Witness" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020552/The-Art-of-The
Interesting read: "How Does It Work? - Voxel Quest" http://www.voxelquest.com/1/post/2014/04/how-does-it-work.html
Interesting video: "UESchool - 2. Animation and Blending" http://www.twitch.tv/ueschool/c/4038644
Interesting talk: "Building Customizable Characters for Bungie's Destiny" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020412/Building-Customizable-Characters-for-Bungie
Interesting read: "All the Boring Bits of Paperwork you have to do as an Indie Developer" http://www.sizefivegames.com/2014/04/09/all-the-boring-bits-of-paperwork-you-have-to-do-as-an-indie-developer/
Interesting video: "UESchool - 1. Learning Navigation Meshes and Behavior Tree" http://www.twitch.tv/ueschool/b/518239777?t=10m48s
Interesting read: "A look inside Unreal Engine 4" http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2014/04/08/A-look-inside-Unreal-Engine-4.aspx & http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2014/04/08/A-look-inside-Unreal-Engine-4-Part-Two.aspx
Interesting talk: "Classic Game Postmortem: Zork" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020612/Classic-Game-Postmortem
Interesting read: "I Am Overencumbered: Why Game Inventories Matter" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/04/08/i-am-overencumbered-why-game-inventories-matter/
Interesting talk: "#1ReasonToBe" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020593/
Interesting read: "Unity Viewmodels" http://garry.tv/2014/04/07/unity-viewmodels/
Interesting read: "How to Fund Your Indie Game" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/articles/how-to-fund-your-indie-game--cms-20514
Interesting videos: "Unity 3d: Multiplayer First-Person Shooter" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbghT7MmckI7BDIGqNl_TgizCpJiXy0n9
Interesting video: "Live Training 3 Mar 2014 - Data Persistence" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6FfcJpbPXE
Interesting read: "How we solved the infamous sliding bug" http://joostdevblog.blogspot.nl/2014/04/the-infamous-sliding-bug.html
Interesting video: "AT&T Archives: Genesis of the Transistor" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiQvGRjrLnU
nteresting read: "Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy of OS/2" http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/11/half-an-operating-system-the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-os2/
Interesting read: "Space Nazis: the making of Iron Sky" http://www.fxguide.com/featured/space-nazis-the-making-of-iron-sky/
Interesting read: "How to Dynamically Slice a Convex Shape" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-dynamically-slice-a-convex-shape-as-seen-in-fruit-ninja--gamedev-14479
Interesting read: "Custom List, a Unity C# Editor Tutorial" http://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/editor/custom-list/
Interesting read: "The Reality of Sexism in the Game Industry" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/JenniferAllaway/20140331/214320/The_Reality_of_Sexism_in_the_Game_Industry.php
Interesting read: "Serialization Best Practices - Megapost" http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/155352-Serialization-Best-Practices-Megapost?p=1064609#post1064609
Interesting read: "Unity: Toying with Scriptable Objects & Custom Editors" http://buchhofer.com/2010/10/unity-toying-with-scriptable-objects/ … & http://buchhofer.com/2011/05/scriptable-objects-and-custom-editors/
Interesting videos: "The Making of The Witcher 3 Cinematic Trailer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp8S0VV410U & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUqW4S4jOy4
Interesting read: "Unity Pro Tip: Use custom made assets as configuration files" http://www.jacobpennock.com/Blog/?p=670
Interesting read: "Let's talk about accountability" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AdrielWallick/20140331/214258/Lets_talk_about_accountability.php & "A Developer’s Guide To Television" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/04/01/down-the-tube-a-developers-guide-to-television/
Interesting video: "Is VR the future of Gaming? A look at nearly every VR device shown at GDC" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2myY_pQEMk
Interesting read: "Reasons for Modest First Projects and Incremental Learning" http://www.hobbygamedev.com/beg/incremental-learning/
Interesting read: "Component - Game Programming Patterns / Decoupling Patterns" http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/component.html
Interesting videos: "ProBuilder 'E1M1' Tutorial Series" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrJfHfcFkLM9dWnj31b8XTdePDLIOWk7e

Interesting links (March 2014)

2014-04-01T09:57:00.001+02:00

Interesting read: "Git Source Code Review" http://fabiensanglard.net/git_code_review/index.php
Interesting read: "T4 Code Generation in Unity" http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/game-programming/t4-code-generation-in-unity-r3620
Interesting read: "Unity3D: Mythbusting performance" http://chaoscultgames.com/2014/03/unity3d-mythbusting-performance/
Interesting read: "Introducing Michael Abrash, Oculus Chief Scientist" http://www.oculusvr.com/blog/introducing-michael-abrash-oculus-chief-scientist/
Interesting read: "Gravity: vfx that’s anything but down to earth" http://www.fxguide.com/featured/gravity/
Interesting video: "Half-Life: Raise the Bar [Fan Film]" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiKcWZHeMG4
Interesting read: "Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime DevLog #9: Pausing Without Pausing" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/AdamWinkels/20140326/213972/Lovers_in_a_Dangerous_Spacetime_DevLog_9_Pausing_Without_Pausing.php
Interesting read: "Unity3D vs. Unreal 4 vs. Crytek: GDC 2014 Engine Wars" http://ralphbarbagallo.com/2014/03/26/unity3d-vs-unreal-4-vs-crytek-gdc-2014-engine-wars/
Interesting slides: "Scripting Particles: Getting Native Speed from a Virtual Machine" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020176/Scripting-Particles-Getting-Native-Speed
Interesting website: "Walt Disney Animation Studios - Publications" http://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/publications/
Interesting read: "Creating Dynamic 2D Water Effects in Unity" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/creating-dynamic-2d-water-effects-in-unity--gamedev-14143
Interesting read: "In the wake of Oculus' Facebook deal, game devs ponder what's next" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/213947/In_the_wake_of_Oculus_Facebook_deal_game_devs_ponder_whats_next.php
Interesting read: "The Complete Rules For Games" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/12/29/the-complete-rules-for-games/
Interesting read: "The Compulsion Loop Explained" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JosephKim/20140323/213728/The_Compulsion_Loop_Explained.php?print=1
Interesting list: "free programming books" https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md

Interesting read: "Greg Costikyan's GDC rant" https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m17UNDc-nnA6s5LDKFCdehutw9viNFx8p-1CkH6tMws/edit
Interesting slides: "Advanced Lighting Techniques in Unity" https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B11iL4IgOgWLdFhzalpmX2kzSmM/view?sle=true
Interesting read: "Just starting out, what games should I make?" http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2013/08/01/Just-starting-out-what-games-should-I-make.aspx
Interesting read: "The tech of Crytek’s Ryse: Son of Rome" http://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-tech-of-cryteks-ryse-son-of-rome/
Interesting read: "Flash is dead, long live OpenFL!" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/LarsDoucet/20140318/213407/Flash_is_dead_long_live_OpenFL.php
Interesting slides: "Code Clinic: How to Write Code the Compiler Can Actually Optimize" (PPTX | 3.8MB) https://raw.githubusercontent.com/macton/presentation-archive/master/gdc14_code_clinic.pptx
Interesting videos: "RPS At GDC" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPW3yAtm2wY, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRsKadfbslg & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UNRACYQCo0
Interesting video: "Evolution of PC Audio - As Told by Secret of Monkey Island" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a324ykKV-7Y
Interesting read: "The making of The Last Days on Mars" http://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-making-of-the-last-days-on-mars/
Interesting read: "Ender’s Game: how DD made zero-g" http://www.fxguide.com/featured/enders-game-how-dd-made-zero-g/
Interesting videos: "Architecture of Deus Ex: Human Revolution" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7519BFFBCE668B2
Interesting read: "Parallel Concerns" http://procworld.blogspot.ca/2014/03/parallel-concerns.html
Interesting documentary: "Free to Play: The Movie" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKti-OF0AKw
Interesting read: "Practical techniques for ray tracing in games" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/AlexandruVoica/20140318/213148/Practical_techniques_for_ray_tracing_in_games.php?print=1
Interesting slides: "Physically Based Shading in Unity" (PDF | 4.4MB) http://aras-p.info/texts/files/201403-GDC_UnityPhysicallyBasedShading_notes.pdf
Interesting news about "Unreal Engine" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/213517/Epic_radically_changes_licensing_model_for_Unreal_Engine.php … and "CRYENGINE" http://www.cryengine.com/news/crytek-announces-its-cryengine-as-a-service-program
Interesting read: "Lou's Pseudo 3d Page" http://www.extentofthejam.com/pseudo/
Interesting talk: "Getting Started with Game Development by Jeb - MINECON 2013 Panel" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPk6UPVqUJs
Interesting news/video: "Unity 5.0 announced, with direct-to-web, plugin-free publishing" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/213355/Unity_50_announced_with_directtoweb_pluginfree_publishing.php
Interesting video: "State of Play: Tommy Refenes of Team Meat" (interview) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCpW0WbCVzQ
Interesting read: "How to get art in your game without being a professional" http://tacticstudios.blogspot.ca/2013/09/how-to-get-art-in-your-game-without.html
Interesting read: "How to get music in your game without being a professional" http://tacticstudios.blogspot.ca/2013/08/how-to-get-music-in-your-game-without.html
Interesting talk: "Classic Game Postmortem: X-COM: UFO Defense" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1017808/Classic-Game-Postmortem-X-COM
Interesting read: "Cutting Corners: Networking Design in Journey" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/NickClark/20140312/212936/Cutting_Corners_Networking_Design_in_Journey.php?print=1
Interesting read: "Venture in to UDK – That ended with Unity" http://www.besusproductions.com/?p=666
Interesting video: "A hands-on introduction to Python for beginning programmers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-ae8Q_7iCA
Interesting read: "Fall Of The Empire: How Inner Turmoil Brought Down LucasArts" http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2014/02/12/fall-of-the-empire-how-inner-turmoil-brought-down-a-legendary-studio.aspx
Interesting read: "Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast retrospective" http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-10-13-jedi-knight-2-jedi-outcast-retrospective
Interesting video: "State of Play: Jonathan Blow - REMASTERED Full Interview" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTumujaqEe8
Interesting read: "2d Visibility" http://www.redblobgames.com/articles/visibility/
Interesting code: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/ToGL (Direct3D - OpenGL translation layer) & https://github.com/ValveSoftware/vogl (OpenGL capture/playback debugger)
Interesting slides: "AI-driven Dynamic Dialog through Fuzzy Pattern Matching. Empower Your Writers!" http://gdcvault.com/play/1015317/AI-driven-Dynamic-Dialog-through
Interesting read: "Tutorial: Loading a chunk of the moon into Unity3D" http://broverthegame.tumblr.com/post/56478718313/tutorial-loading-a-chunk-of-the-moon-into-unity3d
Interesting read: "How to create 2D visibility/shadow effects for your game" http://ncase.github.io/sight-and-light/
Interesting video: "State of Play: Edmund McMillen - Full Interview" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_72BJfuGoXE
Interesting video: "The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 Kickstarter - Projection Mapping" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOa2-6lmvnI
Interesting read: "Game Animation Bootcamp: An expert roundtable Q&A" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/212003/game_animation_bootcamp_an_expert_.php?print=1
Interesting talk: "How to program independent games - Jonathan Blow - CSUA Speech" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjDsP5n2kSM
Interesting read: "Vessel Post Mortem" part 1: http://www.overbyte.com.au/index.php/overbyte-blog/entry/vessel-post-mortem-part-1 2: http://www.overbyte.com.au/index.php/overbyte-blog/entry/vessel-post-mortem-part-2 & 3: http://www.overbyte.com.au/index.php/overbyte-blog/entry/vessel-post-mortem-part-3
Interesting read: "The dirty business of funding" http://www.indiedb.com/games/hope/features/the-dirty-business-of-funding
Interesting video: "DOOM under the hood" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0W65ScZmQw
Interesting videos: "A Game And A Chat Episode 4: Looking (Glass) Back On Thief" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHITDn2qnhg … & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AcmmDeJS1k
Interesting read: "It took two years to cancel Singularity, and ten months to fix it" http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/3/5462994/singularity-two-years-to-make-a-mess-ten-months-to-clean-it-up
Interesting read: "How to debug small programs" http://ericlippert.com/2014/03/05/how-to-debug-small-programs/
Interesting read: "Games of the Generation: Fallout 3" http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-10-24-games-of-the-generation-fallout-3
Interesting read: "WeAreA videogame developer AUA!" (Gabe Newell) http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1zkfmv/wearea_videogame_developer_aua/
Interesting read: "Rendering large terrains" http://www.pheelicks.com/2014/03/rendering-large-terrains/
Interesting read: "Bézier Path Algorithms" http://devmag.org.za/2011/06/23/bzier-path-algorithms/
Interesting slides: "Hierarchical Plan-Space Planning for Multi-Unit Maneuvers" (PDF) http://www.cgf-ai.com/docs/pg2013.pdf
Interesting videos: "Programming A Chess Engine in C" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ1QII7yudbc-Ky058TEaOstZHVbT-2hg
Interesting read: "République: Episode 1 Postmortem" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/RyanPayton/20140303/212110/Rpublique_Episode_1_Postmortem.php?print=1
Interesting read: "BioShock Infinite Lighting" http://solid-angle.blogspot.com/2014/03/bioshock-infinite-lighting.html
Interesting read: "Essential Math for Games Programmers" http://www.essentialmath.com/tutorial.htm
Interesting read: "Grids and Graphs" http://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/grids/graphs.html
Interesting read: "Tomb Raider static shadows trick" http://kosmonautblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/tomb-raider-static-shadows-trick/
Interesting read: "Culling from Hevn" http://migacollabs.com/hevn/2014/1/21/culling-from-hevn
Interesting read: "Moral Decision Making in Fallout" http://gamestudies.org/0902/articles/schulzke
Interesting read: "Modern Microprocessors A 90 Minute Guide!" http://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/
Interesting read: "A Study of User Interface Modifications in World of Warcraft" http://gamestudies.org/1202/articles/ui_mod_in_wow
Interesting open source engine: "Godot Engine" http://www.godotengine.org/wp/
Interesting public domain resources: "Keyboard and controllers prompts" http://opengameart.org/content/free-keyboard-and-controllers-prompts-pack & "UI pack" http://opengameart.org/content/ui-pack
Interesting video: "Arduino The Documentary (2010)" http://vimeo.com/18539129
Interesting video: "VICE on HBO Season One: The Hermit Kingdom" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrCQh1usdzE
Interesting video: "A Brief History of Gore" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRXigbgqtOc

High Entropy (WIP 20140304)

2014-03-04T16:15:00.000+01:00

One of the key elements of the game's design, I wrote a little about my current plans in my previous post, is the operative system the player will use to interact with the computers. The game's computers will have important information in some of their files, emails... and will also be connected with other computers and devices (doors, turrets...) through local networks. The player will interact with the computer using GUIs, the easiest but more restricted way, or the more powerful command line interpreter, depending on the computer and situation. I want the command line interpreter to be easy to use (there will be books and other tips through the levels to help, but it should be quite intuitive, hopefully), something like a very basic version of DOS or bash, but interesting enough to have a feeling of really being 'hacking' the machine (exploring all the folders and files to find a useful program or someone's password, or connecting to other net devices to open doors, disable turrets... things like that).

I've been working on that for some time and, although not all the operative system's details are finished, the main functionality is working (file system, users, GUIs, CLI and networks), and I'm quite happy with it, so I've made a short video and some screenshots of one of my test maps to show you how it currently looks, and also the new weapons, LED signs and turrets I've been working on lately:

watch in HD

Interesting links (February 2014)

2014-03-01T10:14:00.001+01:00

Interesting read: "Make Many Games: Learn Many Things" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/AdrielWallick/20140226/211761/Make_Many_Games_Learn_Many_Things.php?print=1
Interesting read: "Designing an RPG Inventory System That Fits: Preliminary Steps" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/articles/designing-an-rpg-inventory-system-that-fits-preliminary-steps--gamedev-14725
Interesting video: "RenderDoc - An overview" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMFG5wmng-M
Interesting read: "Common Unity Issues – GGJ14 Edition" http://www.codingjargames.com/blog/2014/02/26/common-unity-issues-ggj14-edition/
Interesting read: "Animating Water Using Flow Maps" http://graphicsrunner.blogspot.se/2010/08/water-using-flow-maps.html
Interesting read: "Recreating Unity Pro Features in Unity Free" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AlexJordan/20140224/211490/Recreating_Unity_Pro_Features_in_Unity_Free.php
Interesting read: "Automatic Generation of Dungeons for Computer Games" (PDF | 3.3MB) http://xenophule.com/girscloset/Dungeon_Procedural_Generation.pdf
Interesting read: "Three design lessons from working with RPG legend Ken Rolston" http://gamasutra.com/view/news/211522/Three_design_lessons_from_working_with_RPG_legend_Ken_Rolston.php
Interesting video: "Grounded: The making of The Last of Us" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0l7LzC_h8I
Interesting read: "Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7" http://simonschreibt.de/gat/dont-starve-diablo-parallax-7/
Interesting post: "A C# algorithm to build interesting cave systems for your Roguelike part 1" http://www.evilscience.co.uk/?p=624
Interesting read: "The Internet Sucks: Or, What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131781/the_internet_sucks_or_what_i_.php?print=1

Interesting free sounds: "The Free Firearm Sound Library" http://firearmsfx.moonfruit.com/home/4582574709
Interesting read: "Saving Data #2 - Loading and Saving XML" http://unitygems.com/xml/
Interesting read: "Synchronized Behavior Trees" http://takinginitiative.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/synchronized-behavior-trees/
Interesting video: "Battlefield 4 Netcode - The Real Delay" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C0COfAHHf0
Interesting talk: "Phi talks about Random Dungeon Generation in Unity" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwNXtSFQF8Q #unity3d #unitytech
Interesting slides: "Making and Using NonStandard Textures: Manipulating UVs through Color Data in Portal 2" http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2011/gdc_2011_grimes_nonstandard_textures.pdf
Interesting post: "A super simple HFSM implementation for Unity" http://mindflock.com/2014/02/a-super-simple-hfsm-implementation-for-unity/
Interesting read: "Algorithms and Data structures books: One size doesn't fit them all" http://fabiensanglard.net/algorithms_and_datastructures/index.php
Interesting read: "Trademark Advice For Those Who Can’t Afford Any" http://ryanmorrisonlaw.com/trademark-advice-for-those-who-cant-afford-any-advice/
Interesting read: "Pathfinding for Tower Defense" http://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/tower-defense/
Interesting read: "Event Queue (Game Programming Patterns)" http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/event-queue.html
Interesting videos: "FOSDEM 2014 GameDev developer room" http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1xmeip/videos_of_fosdem_2014_gamedev_room_available/
Interesting read: "Replication in networked games" part 1: http://0fps.net/2014/02/10/replication-in-networked-games-overview-part-1/ … & part 2: http://0fps.net/2014/02/17/replication-in-networked-games-latency-part-2/
Interesting read: "Battle Circle AI: Let Your Player Feel Like They're Fighting Lots of Enemies" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/battle-circle-ai-let-your-player-feel-like-theyre-fighting-lots-of-enemies--gamedev-13535
Interesting read: "Techniques to stay motivated" http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1xdicz/techniques_to_stay_motivated/
Interesting read: "Awesome tools for AAA-Texturing" http://www.bitsalive.com/awesome-tools-for-aaa-texturing/
Interesting read: "Dear Esther and Unity" http://www.littlelostpoly.co.uk/dear-esther-and-unity/
Interesting post: "Unity Mecanim and ragdolls" http://perttuh.blogspot.com/2013/10/unity-mecanim-and-ragdolls.html
Interesting documentary: "Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl_1OybdteY
Interesting video: "JURASSIC PARK's Spitter - Building the animatronic Dilophosaurus dinosaur puppet" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IJQjhdLbbo
Very moving speech: "Ellen Page Joins HRCF's Time to Thrive Conference" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hlCEIUATzg
Interesting read: "Build your own Flappy Bird with SpriteBuilder and Cocos2d 3.0" https://www.makegameswith.us/gamernews/369/build-your-own-flappy-bird-with-spritebuilder-and
Interesting read: "Why Indie Developers Go Insane" http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com.es/2014/02/why-indie-developers-go-insane.html
Interesting read: "Our Internet Empathy Problem" http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/our-internet-empathy-problem/1100-4862/
Interesting videos: "Amnesia Fortnight 2012 Documentary Series" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIhLvue17Sd7ifSsJancSfPUVM8RnGwcl
Interesting talks: "D.I.C.E. Summit 2014" http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLx_Nt-I7Vio9PferYNMlxZoMjD_Yzk3d
Interesting read: "Becoming Cross-Platform" http://www.piratehearts.com/blog/2014/02/03/becoming-cross-platform/
Interesting talks: "Steam Dev Days" (videos + slides) http://steamdevdays.com/
Interesting tutorial: "Mecanim to Ragdoll in Unity 3d" http://xenosmash.com/mecanim-ragdoll-unity-3d/
Interesting read: "Sir, Unity, Mecanim And The Trials Of Small Studio In-Game Animation" http://www.big-robot.com/2013/01/26/sir-unity-mecanim-and-the-trials-of-in-game-animation/
Interesting free ebook: "Procedural Content Generation in Games" http://pcgbook.com/
Interesting read: "Cook Your Own 3D Dungeons With Procedural Recipes" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/cook-your-own-3d-dungeons-with-procedural-recipes--gamedev-14360
Interesting read: "How we made our gunfire look like Battlefield 3" http://www.indiedb.com/games/zombie-hunter-inc/news/how-we-made-our-gunfire-look-like-battlefield-3
Interesting read: "Making textureless 3D work" http://blog.littlechicken.nl/creating-a-textureless-pure3d-look-as-seen-in-oberons-court/
Interesting read: "Level Design in Procedural Generation" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/TanyaXShort/20140204/209176/Level_Design_in_Procedural_Generation.php?print=1
Interesting read: "Creating fluid motion transitions with Unity and Mecanim" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/HeikkiTormala/20121214/183567/Creating_fluid_motion_transitions_with_Unity_and_Mecanim.php?print=1
Interesting read: "Turn a dead laptop into a monitor with Plexiglas stand" http://www.instructables.com/id/Turn-a-dead-laptop-into-a-monitor-with-Plexiglas-s/
Interesting image: "NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Sees 'Evening Star' Earth" http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-039
Interesting read: "Why Games Should Enter The Public Domain" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/02/03/editorial-why-games-should-enter-the-public-domain/ & "Games and the Public Domain" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/PaulTaylor/20140204/209980/Games_and_the_Public_Domain.php
Interesting read: "Level Design - Room Shapes" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/AdrianBauer/20130816/198520/Level_Design__Room_Shapes.php?print=1
Interesting read: "Sonic Physics Guide" http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_Physics_Guide
Interesting website: "Battlefield: BC2 FOV Calculator" http://www.rjdown.co.uk/projects/bfbc2/fovcalculator.php
Interesting read: "PVS-Studio: analyzing Doom 3 code" http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0120/
Interesting videos: "Project: Space Shooter" http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/projects/space-shooter
Interesting read: "STASIS. $140 000 raised by an unknown developer on an unknown license. A Kickstarter Postmortem" https://pay.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1ujopf/stasis_140_000_raised_by_an_unknown_developer_on/
Interesting videos: "FOV in Games" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blZUao2jTGA & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1XsPYPGcl0
Interesting public domain sprites: "Platformer Art: Pixel Redux" http://opengameart.org/content/platformer-art-pixel-redux
Interesting (free for a few days) asset: "Dialoguer" http://www.dialoguer.info/free.php
Interesting read: "Doom glare implementation" http://yzergame.com/doomGlare.html
Interesting read: "The future of screenspace reflections" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/BartlomiejWronski/20140129/209609/The_future_of_screenspace_reflections.php?print=1
Interesting read: "Ryse :: beach texture and material set approach" http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1997608&postcount=137

Interesting links (January 2014)

2014-02-06T18:19:00.000+01:00

Interesting read: "Tech Feature: Linear-space lighting" http://frictionalgames.blogspot.com.es/2013/11/tech-feature-linear-space-lighting.html
Interesting read: "The Curious Case of First Person Storytelling- Part One- The Voice" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/StevenBender/20140127/209372/The_Curious_Case_of_First_Person_Storytelling_Part_One_The_Voice.php?print=1
Interesting talk: "Analytics Driven Design" http://gdcvault.com/play/1019527/Analytics-Driven
Interesting website: "All About Circuits : Free Electric Circuits Textbooks" http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/
Interesting read: "The Feynman Lectures on Physics" http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/
Interesting videos: "Apollo Saturn V LVDC Board Teardown" 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZhRbzDZIDw 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6UDEDzlfs0 & 3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8QdF4J9mTI
Interesting read: "Transparent development tales from three indies baring it all online" http://www.joystiq.com/2014/01/28/transparent-development-tales-from-three-indies-baring-it-all-on/
Interesting free ebooks: "VERTEX" http://artbypapercut.com/downloads/
Interesting read: "How Games Are Made: Defense Grid 2" http://www.polygon.com/features/2013/6/20/4441680/how-games-are-made-defense-grid-2
Interesting read: "Making your game localization-ready" http://dead-code.org/articles/loc1.php
Interesting read: "Enabling the Localization of Large Role-Playing Games" (PDF | 371KB) http://www.trans.uma.es/pdf/Trans_15/39-51.pdf
Interesting talk: "Star Citizen: Going Beyond Crowdfunding" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1019681/Star-Citizen-Going-Beyond

Interesting read: "5 Core Elements Of Interactive Storytelling" http://frictionalgames.blogspot.com.es/2013/08/5-core-elements-of-interactive.html
Interesting read: "Bitcrunching numbers for bandwidth optimisation" http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com.es/2014/01/bitcrunching-numbers-for-bandwidth.html
Interesting video: "IVSoftware - Kotaku discussion" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=netYNUAq_ZQ
Interesting read: "Useful Tips for Horror Game Designers" http://frictionalgames.blogspot.com.es/2013/10/useful-tips-for-horror-game-designers.html
Interesting source code: "Natural Selection mod for Half-life" https://github.com/unknownworlds/NS/ … more info: http://unknownworlds.com/ns2/natural-selection-source-code-released/
Interesting read: "The Ignorance Of Crowds: Why Open Development Is Crap" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/01/23/the-ignorance-of-crowds-why-open-development-is-crap/
Interesting read: "Reverse Engineering Strike Commander" http://fabiensanglard.net/reverse_engineering_strike_commander/index.php
Interesting read: "The great TM 'Saga': AMA with @MonaIbrahim (Game Attorney)" http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1vvvkh/the_great_tm_saga_ama_with_monaibrahim_game/
Interesting read: "Let's talk sense about game trademarks" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/JasPurewal/20140121/209020/Lets_talk_sense_about_game_trademarks.php
Interesting video: "SIGGRAPH University - An Introduction to OpenGL Programming" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8gjVbn8VBk
Interesting read: "Designing RPG Mini-Games (and Getting Them Right)" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/articles/designing-rpg-mini-games-and-getting-them-right--gamedev-14226
Interesting read: "SDL 1.2 to 2.0 Migration Guide" https://wiki.libsdl.org/MigrationGuide
Interesting read: "Tech Feature: SSAO and Temporal Blur" http://frictionalgames.blogspot.com/2014/01/tech-feature-ssao-and-temporal-blur.html
Interesting videos: "Reconstructing Cave Story" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL006xsVEsbKjSKBmLu1clo85yLrwjY67X
Interesting read: "Playing Defender's Quest with the Steam Controller" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/LarsDoucet/20140118/208868/Playing_Defenders_Quest_with_the_Steam_Controller.php?print=1
Interesting video: "Half Life 2 Level Design Gameplay Analysis" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRBisIZvl24
Interesting read: "My Steam Developers Day Talk" (Michael Abrash) http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/my-steam-developers-day-talk/
Interesting video: "A discussion on Early Access" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyGbbIB5eaM
Interesting read: "Rohrer Isn’t Wrong About Sales, But He Also Isn’t Right" http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/01/16/rohrer-isnt-wrong-about-sales-but-he-also-isnt-right/
Interesting read: "You Bought It, You Own It! Time to Reclaim the Right to Use/Tinker/Repair/Make(...) Your Stuff" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/you-bought-it-you-own-it-time-reclaim-right-usetinkerrepairmakeselllend-your-stuff
Interesting videos: "Steam Dev Days - Steam Machine unboxing by Data of Data Realms" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgL4wHPeIpo
Interesting read: "Tips for Getting Greenlit on Steam Greenlight" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/articles/tips-for-getting-greenlit-on-steam-greenlight--gamedev-13938
Interesting read: "Why Rampant Sales are Bad for Players" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/JasonRohrer/20140115/208673/Why_Rampant_Sales_are_Bad_for_Players.php
Interesting read: "More Bugs: Pathfinding Problems" http://www.shiningrocksoftware.com/?p=1971 & "Pathfinding " http://www.shiningrocksoftware.com/?p=901
Interesting read: "Unity 4.3 2D Tutorial: Getting Started" http://www.raywenderlich.com/61532/unity-2d-tutorial-getting-started
Interesting talk: "Classic Game Postmortem: Fallout" http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1015843/Classic-Game-Postmortem
Interesting read: "The Impact of Launching a Game on Steam" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/BradCarney/20140110/208432/The_Impact_of_Launching_a_Game_on_Steam.php?print=1
Interesting source code: "LightShafts" https://github.com/robertcupisz/LightShafts
Interesting read: "Internet Entrepreneurship: How to Avoid Becoming a Stressed Out Loner" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MichaelGnade/20140107/208141/Internet_Entrepreneurship_How_to_Avoid_Becoming_a_Stressed_Out_Loner.php?print=1
Interesting video: "Kim Jung gi Drawing show in" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGbvhyTZXfs
Interesting videos: "Triangles and Pixels" http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzH6n4zXuckrPkEUK5iMQrQyvj9Z6WCrm
Interesting source code: "Planning Starter Kit" https://bitbucket.org/alexjc/planning-starter-kit/src
Interesting read: "Primer — Soldering and Desoldering" http://makezine.com/projects/make-01/primer-soldering-and-desoldering/
Interesting read: "Localization Pipeline" http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/06/27/localization-pipeline/
Interesting read: "Game Software Localization" http://games.greggman.com/game/game_software_localization/
Interesting read: "Localization for Game Development" http://josephstankowicz.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/localization-for-game-development/
Interesting read: "Finite-State Machines: Squad Pattern Using Steering Behaviors" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/finite-state-machines-squad-pattern-using-steering-behaviors--gamedev-13638
Interesting talk: "PRACTICE 2013: Warren Spector" http://vimeo.com/82290242
Interesting read: "Gabe Newell on what makes Valve tick" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/03/gabe-newell-on-what-makes-valve-tick/
Interesting read: "7 truths about indie game development" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/SarahWoodrow/20140102/206583/7_truths_about_indie_game_development.php?print=1
Interesting read: "13 illustrated articles on how I built an HTML5 game from scratch" http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1u8e6p/13_illustrated_articles_on_how_i_built_an_html5/
Interesting videos: "DIY Guitar" http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaaJS59ui3Pg2qrEpXEE6nF-sbjOFQ__d
Interesting read: "Eldritch: Mountains of Post-Mortem-ness" http://gamasutra.com/blogs/DavidPittman/20140103/207974/Eldritch_Mountains_of_PostMortemness.php?print=1
Interesting talk: "Gathering Your Party with Project Eternity" http://gdcvault.com/play/1019680/Gathering-Your-Party-with-Project
Interesting read: "Setting Up Your Indie Gamedev Business: A Primer" http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/articles/setting-up-your-indie-gamedev-business--gamedev-14062
Interesting read: " Multiplayer Logistics" http://www.lostgarden.com/2013/12/multiplayer-logistics.html
Interesting read: "Game environments – Part C: making wet environments" http://www.fxguide.com/featured/game-environments-partc/
Interesting read: "Game environments – Part A: rendering Remember Me" http://www.fxguide.com/featured/game-environments-parta-remember-me-rendering/ Part B: rain http://www.fxguide.com/featured/game-environments-partb/
Interesting talk: "Juice it or lose it - a talk by Martin Jonasson & Petri Purho" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg
Interesting read: "Tomb Raider – Laras Hot Secrets" http://simonschreibt.de/gat/tomb-raider-laras-hot-secrets/
Interesting talk: "Jan Willem Nijman - Vlambeer - The art of screenshake" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJdEqssNZ-U
Interesting videos: "3D Computer Graphics Using OpenGL" http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRwVmtr-pp06qT6ckboaOhnm9FxmzHpbY
Interesting read: "Top Tuts+ Game Development Tutorials from 2013" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MichaelWilliams/20131231/207891/Top_Tuts_Game_Development_Tutorials_from_2013.php?print=1
Interesting talk: "Unite 2013 - Ship is When it Starts: Live Ops & Analytics" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okoyNBaOBpo
Interesting read: "This Year in Game AI: Analysis, Trends from 2013" http://aigamedev.com/open/editorial/2013-retrospective/
Interesting read: "Generating Procedural Racetracks" http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/GustavoMaciel/20131229/207833/Generating_Procedural_Racetracks.php?print=1
Interesting talk: "Unite 2013 - Marketing Sucks" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD31xc5NDxY