T w e n t y S i d e d
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…
Trashing the Heap
What does it mean when a program crashes, and why does it happen?
Self-Balancing Gameplay
There's a wonderful way to balance difficulty in RPGs, and designers try to prevent it. For some reason.
Starcraft 2: Rush Analysis
I write a program to simulate different strategies in Starcraft 2, to see how they compare.
The Best of 2019
I called 2019 "The Year of corporate Dystopia". Here is a list of the games I thought were interesting or worth talking about that year.
Charging More for a Worse Product
No, game prices don't "need" to go up. That's not how supply and demand works. Instead, the publishers need to be smarter about where they spend their money.
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