Year 2019 Category

The social media feedback loop

The dangers of Social Media nothingness....

The Video Games Supply Chain from 1994

Interesting gdmag article detailing the video games business pipeline of development, publishing, distribution and retailers.....

Dino Dini - A gamedev with many missions

Dino Dini new podcast Computer Science series called The Moths of Programming....

Poor man's 3D Collision Detection

Its been a while since Ive updated my gamedev blog on my actual game, Ive been focused on other things mostly, and also figuring out a quick and dirty....

Cross country touring on my Suzuki GSX-R 125cc

I rode a motorcycle for the first time in 10 years on Tuesday the 8th of October 2019 at 5pm from a bike shop in Melbournes CBD. I bought it brand new....

Garage Developers are Not Dead

One of the few things that caught my eye via RSS last month was Mike Roses How well are PC games selling in 2019? (Spoiler Not Great). He basically lo....

Quick update no internet and motorbike

Just a quick post to show some signs of life....

PSONE-Serial

Adding a FTDI serial to a PSONE ....

Retro computing to electronics

A quick update about how I recently got back into retro computers and electronics.

gamble purchase. C64c and Atari ST 520FM

I recently bought a Commodore C64c (with dataset, power supply and 2 joysticks) and Atari ST 520FM (with some random floppies) both untested and rattl....

130 in 1 Electronic Project lab and Intertan 300 in 1 kit

I bought these before getting the newer 300 in 1....

300 in 1 Electronic Lab

300 in 1 Electronic Lab kit....

Pocket-Go hello world

Quick guide to setting up the development environment and creating a hello world app...

Pocket-Go dissembled

Tips on Pocket-Go disassembly....

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GameJams.... is it good practice?

Practice, is the repetitive process in which we learn. GameJams, is really about finishing a (small) project. Both are good, but two completely differ....

Game engine programmers attracting huge wages

Casey Muratori while live streaming mentioned that large web based tech companies are hiring game engine developers for ridiculous money to work in th....

The Net Yaroze interviews that disappeared of the internet

Im slowly updating netyaroze-europe.com as a wiki and one of the stories that sticks out is how vulnerable the internet is.....

My all in one texture

Tilable (repeating textures) images from httpsrenderman.pixar.compixar-one-twenty-eight. The font is created using Codeheads Bitmap Font Generator htt....

More game engine grunt work

Some of it fun, some of it not so much fun....

Pacing - The secret to finishing

This advice comes from an excellent source (which is really important), so in case you don't know who Andr LaMothe is, he wrote a lot of excellent books....

Image of Andre LaMothe talking about books

Hi Andre, I like reading your updates smiley But no mention of amico? xD xD Sorry to be off topic, just wondering, for a bonus video, if you could do ....

Rant about Youtubers and game engine coding

At least once a month, I try to force myself to search youtube for new game development videos. I say force because, its often full of highly produced....

My thoughts on stadia, Google's new video game console

No, it's not the early 2010's again, it's 2019 and google is delivering a streaming video game console, cough cough.. sorry not a console, it's a platform, or just a controller.
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Indiepocalypse: Is It Real? - Does this still apply to 2019?

Presented in 2015 Sergey Galyonkin explains theres no Indiepocalypse and the reasoning still sounds right to me. Here are my highlights #0 Steam is no....
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Dev Ops with Nintendo 3DS game development

The problem with starting from scratch, is just that, it requires everything to be redone.. even a new development workflow AKA dev-ops, new make and ....

Restarting on a new engine... crazy I know!

Yeah, it sucks to go back to nothing.. but had to be done. Targeting the original Nintendo 3DS with 3D requires a pretty lean engine. And while my old....

Computer organization and architecture by Null and Labur

Great for learning computer fundamentals. Math, hardware, OS, network and programming.....

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1996, a Japanese university lab full of Net Yaroze (Sonys Programmable Playstation).....

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1996, a Japanese university lab full of Net Yaroze (Sonys Programmable Playstation).....