3D ASCII rendering
Unusual rendering styles has become very popular lately. In this video, Acerola tries to write an ASCII based 3D rendering shader. Very interesting.
GPU programming chaos
GPU programming used to be just about rendering graphics. As we’ve moved into bitcoin mining and AI, eisfrosch goes over the current chaotic programming environments for GPUs.
Re-creating PS1 graphics with modern hardware
Acerola has a bunch of great graphics videos. In this one, he talks about why PS1 graphics looked the way it did.
I learned that PS1 actually had realtime camera distance tessellation – something that wasn’t available to desktop GPUs until the introduction of tessellation shaders.
Edge shading
Gamelogic does a decent intro to a few simple edge detection shaders used in toon-style rendering.
2.5D ASCII art concept
8 years ago Tenkai Games Dev Room made a cool ASCII nethack-like prototype, and has only gotten like 60k views. It’s amazing how things like this exist yet nobody has seen them.
Newbie vibe coded a top-ranked mobile game
Ron decided to learn to code in 2024. He proceed to use AI to vibe-code a game called Letterlike. It’s now one of the top ranked mobile games on Steam and the #1 paid word game on Android.
He tells his story on this reddit post.
Vibe coding is here. People are building viable commercial products with less than a year of coding experience. Sure this isn’t a solution that needs a lot of security like an online service, but here it is.
Best AI for coding
David Gewirtz reviews a bunch of AI tools for coding; and does some ranking.
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How to write kernel drivers with Rust
not-matthias has blogged his journey on writing a kernel driver with Rust.
He has a few other fun hacky posts about reverse engineering a digital jukebox in a bar to vote for his songs.
3D Math Primer for Game Development
The author’s of the 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development book have provided their intro book for free online. It’s basic for those getting started, but nothing beats free and the author has done a number of GDC talks.