Deconstructing the Role-Playing Video Game(olano.dev)

136 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 56 comments

Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware(werwolv.net)

78 points by speckx 20 days ago | 15 comments

Blog post describing how the author got childhood Macromedia Director games running on modern hardware by working around old copy-protection mechanisms.

GameRoy: JIT Compilation in High-Accuracy Game Boy Emulation(rodrigodd.github.io)

87 points by rodrigodd 3 years ago | 14 comments

Deobfuscating World of Warships' Python Scripts(landaire.net)

95 points by lukastyrychtr 2 years ago | 22 comments

Abusing DuckDB-WASM by making SQL draw 3D graphics (Sort Of)(hey.earth)

183 points by tanelpoder 1 year ago | 31 comments

Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead(marcan.st)

918 points by Shank 1 year ago | 758 comments

Blog post by Hector Martin (marcan) announcing his resignation as project lead of Asahi Linux, recounting his homebrew history and reasons including burnout.

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

150 points by lexx 26 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.

Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine(mitpress.mit.edu)

399 points by jarmitage 2 years ago | 148 comments

MIT Press book page for "Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine" by Chaim Gingold, with a foreword by Janet H. Murray.

Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable(matthewball.co)

399 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 471 comments

Matthew Ball essay analyzing Roblox's scale as the world's biggest game and why the company remains unprofitable.

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.

Why fastDOOM is fast(fabiensanglard.net)

638 points by wicket 1 year ago | 201 comments

Fabien Sanglard's blog post explaining the optimizations that make FastDOOM, a DOS port of Doom, run faster on 486-era PCs like the IBM PS/1.

A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't(housing.over.pizza)

521 points by JumpCrisscross 18 days ago | 173 comments

A browser-based simulation game where you play a housing developer in San Francisco navigating the Board of Supervisors, permits, and city politics to get projects approved.