RT @newsyc20: The In-game Economics of Ultima Online (1999) http://bit.ly/QOwJpu (http://bit.ly/QOwJpt) #trending #guru
Interaction design • webdevelopment • web art • photography
RT @newsyc20: The In-game Economics of Ultima Online (1999) http://bit.ly/QOwJpu (http://bit.ly/QOwJpt) #trending #guru
Portal's physics engine rebuilt in 25KB—on a graphing calculator http://ars.to/11V63pz
Super Mario Beads 3, fun stop-motion video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXnd4BIVYnU (via http://www.nerdist.com/2012/12/super-mario-beads-3-the-beads-are-back/ )
RT @ironicsans: Move your joystick to the top left and press a button. Now move it to the bottom right and press a button. Now center it and press a button.
js wolf3d http://www.wolfenstein.com/game/wolf3d.html has the most awesome css spritesheets:
http://zmi-cdnstatic.s3.amazonaws.com/wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/art/bj. png
http://zmi-cdnstatic.s3.amazonaws.com/wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/art/wal ls-shaded/64/walls.png
http://zmi-cdnstatic.s3.amazonaws.com/wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/art/spr ites/128/002_053.png
categorizing different ways to implement 2d platform games http://higherorderfun.com/blog/2012/05/20/the-guide-to-implementing-2d -platformers/ (via http://mefi.us/w/116275 )
Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-one-mans-3g hz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator/
Wolfenstein 3D 20th anniversary director's commentary with John Carmack http://youtu.be/amDtAPHH-zE
Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner received a fan letter from John Romero in 1985 http://jordanmechner.com/blog/2012/03/romero-karateka/ (via @nvh)
RT @fabynou: Another World Code Review: http://fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review/index.php
The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project http://nothings.org/gamedev/thief_rendering.html
Gamekings afleveringen in Divx formaat
Update: hmm, blijkbaar offline
Maarrr.. verhuisd naar TMF zijn er nu gelukkig wel weer afleveringen streamend te zien via http://www.tmf.nl/games/.
Update 2:
http://www.gamekings.tv/
Gamer's Edge: Book of Application; online comic inspired by Acts of Gord
all Super Mario World backgrounds [via]
Legal Abandonware - collection of classic PC games for download. Best game of the lot might be Beneath a Steel Sky; I actually bought the diskette version of this adventure game in 1994, now I can try the speech-enhanced CD version.
Been spending a lot of time in Hellendoorn lately...
read more »Doom Garden - If you've ever played Doom, you might remember the mountainous skymap from some of the early levels. This is an original photograph of the actual mountains. Part of Doom Alphas and Betas. [via Wouterd]
History of Commander Keen [via Blue's News]
Blast from the past: Random weblog opener, updated to use the Blogstart database, rather than the now defunct webring.org webring.
