March 2011
21 posts
WatchShot at 5K 96fps at Salton Sea, CA…. just for the lulz.
Test Footage from Red Epic: “Ride of the Valkyries”
The Word of Notch: Terrain generation, Part 1 →
notch:
Terrain is generated, saved and loaded, and (kind of) rendered in chunks of 16*16*128 blocks. These chunks have an offset value that is a 32 bit integer roughly in the range negative two billion to positive two billion. If you go outside that range (about 25% of the distance from where you are now to the sun), loading and saving chunks will start overwriting old chunks. At a 16/th of...
Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a... →
Angry Birds is full of these little mysteries. For example, why are tiny bananas suddenly strewn about in some play sequences and not in others? Why do the houses containing pigs shake ever so slightly at the beginning of each game play sequence? Why is the game’s play space showing a cross section of underground rocks and dirt? Why do the birds somersault into the sling shot sometimes and not...
“Intellectual conversations…are like public displays of affection—fun to be in,...”
– n+1: How to Behave in an Art Museum
“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to...”
– Steve Jobs
