This past weekend I was helping a friend out with his comic expo booth. He had a few old cartridges, NES and ATARI, that he had decalled up to look like games that never existed. The ATARI cart was...

I know almost nothing about the intricacies of graphics programming. I don’t know how to swizzle a matrix or whatever it is graphics programmers do. I know that swizzling is a real thing, and...

forty years gone byplaying games more than thirtysilly to stop now

Best Games - Caverns of Khafka (for Atari computers)Caverns of Khafka feels like a game that could shake apart at any moment. Is it possible to glitch your character clean through the floor of the ...

I hate rendering. Can’t stand it. I would be positively ellated to never have to render anything ever again.  That leads to the obvious question. What is rendering, and why do you hate it so much?...

There are a lot of great digital tools available now that let creators work in rapid, iterative ways. We owe a lot of the progress made in the last 40 years to the humble “undo” command. The undo ...

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I watched An American Werewolf in London on a CED when I was a kid. You could go and ask your grandpa what a CED is, but for the sake of this story, I’ll fill you in.  CED was a weird sort of vide...

I’ve been doing some 3D modelling recently. It’s something I have been doing with varying degrees of success for almost 20 years. You would think that I would have it down by now. You would think t...