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You might remember a couple of months ago I posted a bunch of charts of video game data. The obvious question that went unanswered in those postsTo the genuine annoyance of some. was, “Where did this data come from?” So let’s talk about that.

Actually, before we talk about that I should make it clear that this is a programming project. I should note that that this project pre-dates that crazy stuff I was doing with BSP loading a couple of weeks ago, but I’m posting them in the opposite order. For some reason.

Maybe reading yet another programming project sounds fun, but this isn’t a game-focused project with cool screenshots to show off my project. This is pretty dry and you’ve already seen the end result. I’d talk you out of reading more, but we both know you’re going to read this stupid thing no matter what I say. So Let’s just get this over with.

Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Scraping Part 1: Easy Mode”

Shamus Young is a programmer, an author, and nearly a composer. He works on this site full time. If you'd like to support him, you can do so via Patreon or PayPal.

In the previous entry I ended with an abrupt half-joke where I said I got raytracing working. The idea was that I spent days struggling to get simple old technology working properly, but then casually mastered cutting-edge tech in a single sentence. Sadly, it’s not totally true. I got access to raytracing, but I think it’s a stretch to say it’s “working”.

When I left off, I presented you with an image that looked more or less like this:

That’s what the program looks like when you leave it alone, but if you move the camera even slightly then it looks something like this: Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Adventures in Raytracing”

Shamus Young is a programmer, an author, and nearly a composer. He works on this site full time. If you'd like to support him, you can do so via Patreon or PayPal.

This is a second entry, following the first one, which makes this a series now.  If you remember, my son Issac made a level for Garry’s mod that I thought was cool, and I foolishly assumed it would be easy to get it translated to a modern engine. Here’s the original level:

It was unreasonably difficult to extract all of those polygons and render them in another game engine. Let’s talk about why. Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Revisiting a Dead Engine”

Shamus Young is a programmer, an author, and nearly a composer. He works on this site full time. If you'd like to support him, you can do so via Patreon or PayPal.

This no-content post is brought to you by sloth, incompetence, and malfeasance. I have lots of content in the pipeline, but I recently got sidetracked by a project that I figured ought to take “a few hours”, and has now devoured much, much more than a few hours.

It all started when my son Issac showed me a Garry’s Mod level he was working on…

Continue reading ⟩⟩ “No content today. Except for this.”

Shamus Young is a programmer, an author, and nearly a composer. He works on this site full time. If you'd like to support him, you can do so via Patreon or PayPal.