"Don Daglow and Rebecca Ann Heineman to be honored at 2026 Game Developers Choice Awards" Game Developer https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/don-daglow-and-rebecca-heineman-to-be-honored-at-2026-game-developers-choice-awards

Peaches' "What's In My Bag?" Amoeba Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL2b-4PkjZ0

RE: https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/116171265318221121 How insidious is this? At first I thought "glaze" was sort of funny, because we see so much AI worship. Then I realized it co-opts the name of a tool used by artists to make their work poisonous to genAI data sets.

This is huge. The Supreme Court of the United States has declined to take up an appeal regarding generative AI. This upholds the findings of multiple lower courts and affirms that AI-generated content cannot be copyrighted. This is good news for actual creatives and bad news for commercial AI […]

Fascinating postmortem of QUOD, a stunning 64KB FPS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qht68vFaa1M

Whoever designed this Avid logo wasn't paid enough.

I understand their fascination with AI: They're fucking morons. "AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate the AI to stop the bot from continuing to erase data" […]

I don't get it. Maybe you won't as well. "Texel Splatting" IndividualKex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhlTMsPoaJw

I was initially taken aback by what appeared to be Pin-Bot on the NES in this thumbnail. I'm the first to admit that I have a major blind spot with that console. But I was knocked out to learn that the impressive Rad Racer was coded by Apple II legend Nasir Gebelli […]

Laura Dern did not waste her time in the Criterion Closet. What a cinemaphile, eager, almost desperate, to share her love of the craft. She does not miss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs

Aww, man. Gamedev City is over. I get it, though. I tried to do something like this in 2008. Building it was fun, but running it was exhausting. https://gamedev.city/

This visualization is part of a Tiny Tapeout project to clone an entire Atari 2600 on a community ASIC. Amazing! "‘Mad scientist’ visualizes Atari 2600 fetching data from ROM for mesmerizing light show — signal propagation through the 8-bit circuits animated" […]

An absolute thing of beauty. "Half-Life TAS in 18:13" zimmeri https://youtu.be/wUxaza92Q2g?si=vDhXQibjkqLFOXD0

This is a good and inexpensive 2D lighting trick. "Make Reactive Rim Lighting in GameMaker" GameMaker https://youtu.be/l1sehS90CIs?si=q5Nc9KNA9seUK9n-

"Fire Physics Was Broken. Not Anymore" Two Minute Papers https://youtu.be/B6GJjvR6txg?si=iFXz3BPAXQcAqBvx

A judge has rejected a fair-use exception claim to the DMCA anti-circumvention provision in a case revolving around a defendant downloading a YouTube video for purposes of criticism. "The DMCA might be about to destroy Fair Use" Leonard French https://youtu.be/dxqm0iQuSXM?si=1bPuZS50f_D7-y11

It also stops claude from making issues or PRs on any of your repos. I consider this a bonus.

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history. This allows you to, the moment you look at a repo, immediately adjust your expectations. You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked_users

I kinda miss the fixed-function days. "Why 3D Artists need to be Mathematicians (on the N64)" Kaze Emanuar https://youtu.be/kkfRbCqsN6s?si=b9Zzqo02O4FjMXAc

Pretty neat how AI is completely destroying the consumer tech sector. "Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place" […]

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@xot/116070957265595031 Ars Technica has posted a retraction. As expected, this reporting failure was due to the use of a generative AI. Editorial has accepted responsibility for the actions of the co-authors. I dislike the tacit suggestion that had it been […]

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@xot/116065688012051690 The maintainer has posted a follow-up that gets to the heart of the issue: the ethics of reporting and the runaway effects of agentic misinformation. https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/

Fighting Games That Cheat It's a good one today folks. Modern Vintage Gamer had a look into how the CPU opponents of two of the most popular and foundational fighting games, Mortal Kombat 2 and Street Fighter 2, cheat against players trying to progress far into the game on their meager financial […]

The most interesting thing about this disappeared Ars Technica article about an AI agent beefing with an open-source maintainer is the last part, which appears to have been hallucinated by another AI […]

Here's a new disassembly of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" for Atari VCS/2600 with extensive documentation. Very impressive. (via Ian Schmidt) https://github.com/joshuanwalker/Raiders2600/

This is bad for anyone who comments on media in the internet age. "‘Ripping’ Clips for YouTube Reaction Videos can Violate the DMCA, Court Rules" TorrentFreak https://torrentfreak.com/ripping-clips-for-youtube-reaction-videos-can-violate-the-dmca-court-rules/

"I Bought the Display From War Games! Let's make it Draw!" Dave's Garage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrwvIKK3D2o

Very sad to hear that Sandy Duncan has passed. Without Sandy's considerable investment, leadership, and team building, there would be no GameMaker today. It would have faded into memory long ago, and many wonderful indies might never have realized their dreams. RIP.

Almost freaked out when I saw this, thought it could be a new VSCode feature. Turns out, it's a special ligature feature of the Maple Mono font https://font.subf.dev/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@GIbiz/116017781305730818 If those AI freaks delay the release of the new Steam Controller, heads are gonna roll.

Why do I get the feeling that someone on the fediverse wants this bad boi? https://www.facebook.com/share/1HpxGXD29S/

I watched this tutorial to see what PICO-8 development was like, but what I got was a great exploration of Zelda-like movement. It starts at the most basic level and gradually builds up to a sophisticated system, examining limits and pitfalls at each iteration […]

This is properly insane. I was skeptical when I saw the headline, but it really does seem to be dynamically rasterizing light and shadow into the environment. "Homebrew developer runs real-time ray tracing test on 1994 Sega Saturn" […]

"Making Catacomb 3-D" John Romero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcUqwMf01pI

The first part of Pixelated Pope's new two-part GameMaker tutorial series, "Pausing your Game in 2026," has been posted. Pause like a Pope! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OeSMgBSau4

RE: https://mas.to/@jf_718/115980803760707177 Being exposed to pepper spray from an ophthalmologist seems like malpractice.

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@sos/115967415928823196 This is so good. Utterly pragmatic about the pros and cons of using Linux over Windows, and how much it will realistically cost you. And notice I'm not saying switching. This is not Linux evangelism. This is a way to get through a bad […]

I'm #colorblind and I use https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/ frequently. Randall 'xkcd' Monroe did a survey of over 100,000 readers where he showed them random rgb colors and said "what would you call this?" and afterwards he did his best to sort the results into the most popular color names and the […]

I wrote my first 6502 emulator on February 24, 2017. Seven years and several emulators later, you can still detect its footprints.

Incredible article on using ASCII for rendering and dithering. So many factors you may not have thought of impact the results. It's all laid out very clearly here. https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering

Refactoring every bus-connected component in my emulator surely won't break anything.

This new Apple II game is an incredible take on Frogger and Crossy Road. It's extremely well-made and has varied and fun challenges. Bravo, Ben and Paul Wasson. https://www.lasermego.com/a2sw/froggo

I finally got smart and quit writing weird formulas to get my composite color decoding to look right. Now I can load raw images into Affinity Photo, tweak the colors until I like them, and use those tweaks to create a LUT texture for a new color correction shader. Why did that take me so long?

What a great hack! "It sounds dumb but they really fixed a typo with a human leg" https://youtu.be/dUkLYOPRYH4?si=4T523pEWbPRS-sN1

Frank Cifaldi: "Merry Christmas! If you'd like to spend 45 minutes celebrating video game history with me, we're about to debut The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System. I worked on his ALL YEAR, and I genuinely think it will reshape how we all think about the system." […]

The Advent of Compiler Optimizations has wrapped, and what a fascinating series it was. If you're a coder and you missed it, check it out and learn what absolute folly it is to try to outsmart the compiler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-BwR-Cw0Gk&list=PL2HVqYf7If8cY4wLk7JUQ2f0JXY_xMQm2

I finally made some progress with a layout engine for my emulator's debugger. The manual layout I've been using (right) is a nightmare to manage and essentially impossible to change at runtime. The new system (left) easily handles dynamic element insertion, deletion, resizing, and container fitting.

The PIXELFALLS browser-based game engine looks pretty neat! It's reminiscent of the PICO-8 retro "fantasy console". Edit sprites, levels, Lua code, and music all in one place. Play and share your games in the browser. Limited early access. https://youtu.be/GtOV6r2YslY?si=PO_FnbZXIkWdb2Hz […]

Added a fun memory heatmap to my Apple II emulator. The black area represents the 64K address space. It shows memory accesses in real time, blue for reads and red for writes. It still needs some work, but the proof of concept works. Ultimately, it should show all memory, not just the address space.

How accurate is the Analogue3D really? Kaze points out many problems but there is hope they will be fixed. It's not a bad product, it's just not yet the one they are advertising. https://youtu.be/wrbyP7y5z80?si=mK7ka1L68__XrJpy