A personal engineering blog following the author's development of Lights, a C++23 game engine, starting with a high-level architectural tour. Readers get technical detail on design decisions such as the layered structure, the RHI-based rendering backend and the choice not to impose an ECS.
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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 developers who made them. Covers famous titles and obscure ones, with original art collaborations and rare development assets.
GameMakers publishes essays and interview-based episodes on the free-to-play games business, covering product direction, AI in game development and studio marketing. Readers get an operator's framework and specific examples drawn from guests with firsthand data.
Regen Raygun covers how AI is changing the games industry, from AI agents playing games to studio strategy and platform bets. Issues combine news reporting with analysis of primary sources such as papers, post-mortems and executive statements.
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