First screen, captured .
1271 points by alexharri | 139 comments
Blog post by Alex Harri taking a deep dive into building an image-to-ASCII renderer, with interactive demos explaining why ASCII characters aren't pixels.
310 points by tehnub | 124 comments
78 points by speckx | 15 comments
Blog post describing how the author got childhood Macromedia Director games running on modern hardware by working around old copy-protection mechanisms.
337 points by speckx | 212 comments
A personal blog post by James Mackenzie about his love of software-rendered 3D graphics in classic MS-DOS and PC games like Quake.
346 points by todsacerdoti | 269 comments
Essay by Sam Bleckley, a fine artist and software engineer, on understanding and art-directing AI image generators and why illustrators remain valuable.
399 points by tylerdane | 185 comments
A Marginalia weblog post encouraging readers to spend time learning new skills like pixel art, music, or languages instead of passive scrolling.
599 points by eliasdaler | 240 comments
Elias Daler's blog post on learning Vulkan and building a small game engine with two demo games in three months, with code on GitHub.
627 points by atan2 | 298 comments
Pikuma blog article explaining jungle music's origins and why it suited soundtracks of 90s PlayStation and Nintendo 64 era games.
293 points by Vaslo | 45 comments
CedarDB blog post describing a port of the original 1993 Doom game logic and renderer to SQL, running inside the database with Python only handling timing and display.