Here is a meme: Being grateful for everyday things. Sounds very wise. There are indeed things we use every day that we often take for granted.
I was going to say that an everyday thing I’m grateful for is the OpenGL Extension Registry and the way it provides some nice low-level tools and access to some of the newer and more robust rendering paths, but then I realized that was sort of trite. I mean, everyone probably uses that one, right?
I guess it depends on what you do every day…
Overused Words in Game Titles
I scoured the Steam database to figure out what words were the most commonly used in game titles.
This Game is Too Videogame-y
What's wrong with a game being "too videogameish"?
Quakecon 2012 Annotated
An interesting but technically dense talk about gaming technology. I translate it for the non-coders.
Pixel City Dev Blog
An attempt to make a good looking cityscape with nothing but simple tricks and a few rectangles of light.
Bethesda’s Launcher is Everything You Expect
From the company that brought us Fallout 76 comes a storefront / Steam competitor. It's a work of perfect awfulness. This is a monument to un-usability and anti-features.
T w e n t y S i d e d
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