A university game development program's blog-style newsletter covering campus events, student projects, industry guest speakers and awards. It offers a behind-the-scenes look at student life and community connections around Shawnee State's games program.
Website: https://www.ssugames.org/
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.
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.
Regen Raygun is a weekly-style commentary newsletter on how the games industry is being reshaped by generative AI, covering AI agents playing games, user-generated game platforms and studio AI mandates. Readers get analysis of recent industry moves and the reasoning behind them, with direct reference to primary sources.
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