My name is Sérgio Vieira and I’m a portuguese guy who grew up in the 80s and 90s, I’ve always been nostalgic towards retro-gaming, specifically the third and forth generation consoles. A few years ago I’ve decided to learn more about electronics and try to build my own video game console. Sérgio wins the internet this week. 🏆
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SCRIPT-8 is designed to encourage play — the kind of wonder-filled play children experience as they explore and learn about the world. In order to support this goal, everything in SCRIPT-8 has immediate feedback. It is what some call a “livecoding” environment. Send this to $YOUNG_PERSON in your life. But also bcc it to yourself. 😉
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The engine is a fork of the Quake II codebase that focuses on serving as a base for standalone games. Unlike other ports, it does not aim at being compatible with mods or the base Quake II game. In fact, many features were removed to reduce the complexity of the codebase and make the process of creating new games on top of the engine easier and faster.
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PhysX is NVIDIA’s hardware-accelerated physics simulation engine that’s now released as open source to move it beyond its most common use case in the gaming world, to give access to the embedded and scientific fields — think AI, robotics, computer vision, and self-driving cars. PhysX SDK has gone open source, starting today with version 3.4! It is available under the simple 3-Clause BSD license. With access to the source code, developers can debug, customize and extend the PhysX SDK as they see fit.
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I love this with my whole heart. 🤤
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Gaming in Linux has evolved a lot in the past few years. Now, you have dozens of distros pre-optimized for gaming and gamers. We tested all of them and hand-picked the best. This is a well-done roundup, replete with features and minimum hardware requirements for each distro. 👌
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The emulator can run the majority of GB games and some CGB games. There is also colour and sound support. This was built as a development exercise and is very much a WIP, but that shouldn’t stop you from hopping in there and playing some Link’s Awakening. 😉
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Finish him!
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Just visit web-riimote.herokuapp.com on a laptop/desktop AND a smartphone. Your smartphone will be the controller and your laptop/desktop will be the main display. You don’t have to install an app or anything. Pretty cool! Video demo here.
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If this book intrigues you (like it does me), start nowhere else but the “How to Read This Book”: A successful iOS game makes $4,000 annually (this goes for any app frankly). A successful Android game makes one seventh of that (one third at best). You are not a large multi-million dollar company (at least I don’t think you are given that you’re reading this book). So you don’t have the customer acquisition/marketing budget to beat this $4,000 annual average. Period. Brutal. What’s a dev to do, then? Make lots of niche, high quality games.
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Looking for inspiration to improve the look and feel of your product? Take clues from popular video games to create engaging user experiences for web and mobile. Wow, I was a bit skeptical of this article from the headline alone, but it has some superb insights in to game-inspired design interactions we can build in to our apps.
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Jamal Moon writes in the readme: Vim is a great tool to write and edit code, but many people, including me, struggled with the steep learning curve. I did not find a fun, free way to learn about the vim commands in-depth, and thus, PacVim was born. Inspired by the classic, PacMan, PacVim is a game that’ll give anyone plenty of practice with the vim commands while being a ton of fun to play. Download and build the game with macOS and Linux.
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A JavaScript game you play from the terminal: In WarriorJS, you wear the skin of a warrior climbing a tall tower to reach The JavaScript Sword at the top level. Legend has it that the sword bearer becomes enlightened in the JavaScript language, but be warned: the journey will not be easy. On each floor, you need to write JavaScript to instruct the warrior to battle enemies, rescue captives, and reach the stairs alive… Whether are new to programming or a JS guru, WarriorJS will put your skills to the test. Will you dare? Check out the gameplay docs to get a feel for things. This could be a lot of fun!
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A quick search through our history tells me that this is the fourth NES emulator we’ve logged, and the second one written in Go. So, yeah. People love writing these. And we love logging them. 😄
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Paul Miller: There are two major reasons I can think of to hack a game console. The first one is obvious: so you can play cracked copies of games. That’s why modern consoles are so difficult to hack, because millions of dollars are on the line. But some people just want to run any software they choose on the hardware they own. And for those people, Linux on the Switch is a huge achievement. This hack boasts touchscreen support, a fully operational death star web browser, and a GPU-powered demo app. Sadly, there are no details out on how you can do it yourself, but Twitter user fail0verlow has a nice video of it in action embedded in a tweet.
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Written in JavaScript using HTML5 Canvas API, SQLite and built on Electron.
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