NVIDIA GPU Programming Guide Updated for GeForce 8/9

geeks3d.com — NVIDIA has updated its GPU Programming Guide and this new version is focused specifically on the GeForce 8 and 9 GPUs. read more...

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Optimizing the rendering of a particle system

published 4 days, 7 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 4 days, 7 hours ago

realtimecollisiondetection.net — There are many things that can kill the frame rate in a modern game, and particles are up near the top of the list of causes. A key contributing factor is that particles are subject to a lot of overdraw that is not present in your opaque geometry. read more...

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You Say Tomato: A Pro on Fan-Translating Nintendo's Mother 3

published 8 days, 14 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 9 days, 5 hours ago

gamasutra.com — In this in-depth interview, Gamasutra talks to Mother 3 fan-translator Clyde 'Tomato' Mandelin on working on the unofficial translation of the Nintendo classic, his day job in translation, and his localization heroes. read more...

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Orion's Belt - RIP

blog.orionsbelt.eu — Award winning game Orion's Belt is terminated after 5 years. Now we present the first images of our new game, still in closed beta: Orion's Belt 2.0. Orion's Belt 1.0 was a game made by Portuguese students that was targeted mainly on the Portuguese market. It has several innovative features, the biggest one being battles on a game board similar to chess. Version 1.0 wouln't scale and was terminated. For the past six months the team have been creating the new Orion's Belt 2.0 version. You can follow the story to read about Orion's Belt 1.0 history. read more...

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DevPocalypse – A *Basic* Asp.Net MVC + jQuery Game

published 25 days ago, submitted by ElementCy 25 days ago

squaredroot.com — The basic idea of the game is that multiple players can exist on a grid (a “screen”) and move around to unoccupied spaces (“blocks”) adjacent to their current location. He had grand hopes of being able to click another player to attack them and include some basic chat, but alas, it was not meant to be. At least not for this presentation. His hope is to continue working on this as a single sample app he can use to illustrate various MVC techniques for future speaking engagements. read more...

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Multi-Core Simulation of Soft-Body Characters Using Cloth

published 26 days, 12 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 26 days, 12 hours ago

gamasutra.com — In this Intel-sponsored feature, part of the Visual Computing microsite, Intel senior software engineer Brad Werth explains how multicore CPUs can be leveraged for an efficient method of representing soft-body characters by way of cloth simulation. read more...

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Optimizing Asset Processing

published 2 months, 7 days ago, submitted by ElementCy 2 months, 7 days ago

gamasutra.com — In an in-depth technical article, Neversoft co-founder Mick West discusses performance concerns when optimizing asset processing for games, including the basic nature of the common problems and in-depth solutions for keeping the pipeline efficient. read more...

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What Gamers Want: Missing Gamers

published 2 months, 16 days ago, submitted by ElementCy 2 months, 16 days ago

gamasutra.com — Having visited ourselves upon groups of Family Gamers and Silver Gamers, we now turn the labs over to Missing Gamers in an attempt to discover what is keeping them from playing games as they did in their youth. read more...

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