After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death(arstechnica.com)

176 points by mikhael 10 months ago | 70 comments

Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78(arstechnica.com)

103 points by rbanffy 8 months ago | 18 comments

Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy(arstechnica.com)

449 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 193 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that a judge voided film studios' subpoena seeking the identities of Reddit users who commented about piracy.

Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc(arstechnica.com)

126 points by signa11 10 months ago | 79 comments

Why Anthropic's Claude still hasn't beaten Pokémon(arstechnica.com)

40 points by Workaccount2 1 year ago | 28 comments

Fallout 2's Chris Avellone describes his game design philosophy(arstechnica.com)

47 points by LaSombra 10 months ago | 18 comments

VVVVVV Source Code(github.com)

385 points by radeeyate 1 year ago | 72 comments

GitHub repository by Terry Cavanagh hosting the source code of the indie platformer game VVVVVV, with desktop and mobile versions.

John Carmack on inlined code (2014)(number-none.com)

528 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 363 comments

Jonathan Blow's blog reposts John Carmack's 2007 email on inlining code and avoiding hidden state mutation, with Carmack's 2014 commentary favoring pure functions.

Open Source Games(opensourcegames.dev)

4 points by tokozedginidze 5 days ago | 0 comments

Open Source Games is a curated directory of new open-source games found on GitHub, filterable by genre, platform, play style and controls, with play links.

City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2(radical-elements.com)

150 points by lexx 23 days ago | 143 comments

Blog post by Alex Lingris, the second part of an essay arguing city-building games like Cities: Skylines 2 lack soul.

I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it(edw.is)

599 points by eliasdaler 2 years ago | 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.

Microsoft makes Zork open-source(opensource.microsoft.com)

575 points by tabletcorry 11 months ago | 219 comments

Microsoft Open Source blog post announcing the open-source release of the source code for the classic text adventure games Zork I, II, and III.