A personal blog by a self-taught developer who writes tutorials and essays on game programming, such as a beginner-friendly introduction to shaders in Unity, along with practical guides on 3D resin printing safety and critiques of American consumer culture. Readers get approachable explanations and a hobbyist's firsthand perspective, though publication is irregular.
Website: https://aarondevelops.com/
Developer blog on building OpenMU, an open-source MMORPG game server, covering architecture decisions, performance work and new features. Readers get detailed engineering write-ups with code-level reasoning and measured results.
Design Room publishes long-form oral histories of video games, built from interviews with the people who made them, covering famous titles and obscure ones alike. Issues also include community features and occasional updates on the publication's paid tier and plans.
A developer's blog about building Owlbear Rodeo, a virtual tabletop for role-playing games, covering design decisions like map alignment tools, automatic fog detection, and reflections on the developer's early programming history. Readers get detailed insight into the tradeoffs and features behind a niche TTRPG software product.
Trapnest is a daily series of long-form technical essays about browser-based 3D projects, covering architecture, physics, and mathematics behind interactive worlds like a lake pavilion, a fighter-jet cockpit simulator, and a cyberpunk driving game. Readers get detailed explanations of the engineering and maths under each project, written with a vivid, enthusiastic voice.
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