VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Get Lamp - A documentary about adventures in text 2025-01-21

   tags: command-line, documentary, game/interactive-fiction, history

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2. Zork: The Great Inner Workings 2025-01-21

   tags: command-line, game/interactive-fiction, game/zork, history, parser, programming/c, programming/fortran, programming/go, programming/lisp

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   It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

   • Zork: The Great Underground Empire
   • Down From the Top of Its Game: The Story of Infocom, Inc.
   • The Visible Zorker
   • r/raldi - I spent my weekend hacking Zork
   • historicalsource/zork1
   • historicalsource/zork-fortran
   • MITDDC/zork
   • jeffnyman/zmachine
   • ZoBoRf/ZILCH-How-to
   • ajdnik/gozork
3. Intellij Community - FernFlower - An analytical decompiler for Java 2025-01-14

   tags: game/minecraft, intellij, programming/java, reverse-engineering

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   • MinecraftForge/FernFlower - Forge's modifications to FernFlower
   • MinecraftForge/ForgeFlower
   • Vineflower/vineflower - A modern, general purpose JVM language decompiler
   • leibnitz27/cfr - A modern Java decompiler written in Java 6
4. Kenton' s LAN Party House 2024-11-28

   tags: diy, game/multiplayer, game/multiplayer/lan-party, house, nerd, network, woodworking

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   • kentonv/lanparty - Netboot a fleet of desktop machines from a single base image

   Previous "version":

   • Kenton's House
   • LAN-Party Optimized House
   • LAN-party house: The Back-story
5. Famicom Mahjong controller 2024-11-22

   tags: controller, game, game/arcade, game/emulator, nintendo/nes, serial-communication/usb

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   • Famicom Mahjong/Hanafuda controller USB keyboard mod
   • Adventures in Lo-Fi: Famicom Mahjong controller USB keyboard mod
   • Famicom Mahjong controller and how does it work?
   • Nes Dev - Jissen Mahjong controller
6. My Favorite Tools + Techniques for Procedural Gamedev 2024-11-22

   tags: game, graphics/2d, graphics/3d, image/texture, indie, procedural-generation

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   • Implementing Depth Pre-Pass Optimization for Three.JS
7. Building SimCity - How to Put the World in a Machine 2024-11-22

   tags: architecture/urban-planning, book, city, game/sandbox, game/sim-city, game/simulation, programming/c++, society/demographics

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   • Discussion on Hacker News
   • Book report by Steward Brand
   • ROMchip Presents: Building SimCity: A Conversation with Will Wright and Chaim Gingold
   • EA Sim City 2000 Will Wright Interview
   • Game Developer Magazine - April/May 1995
   • Stanford Libraries - Interfacing to Microworlds, Will Wright, Maxis
   • Will Wright on Designing User Interfaces to Simulation Games (1996) (2023 Video Update)
   • Will Wright and Brian Eno - Generative Systems
   • Playing with Time | Brian Eno and Will Wright
   • SimHacker/MicropolisCore - SimCity/Micropolis C++ Core

   Related books:

   • Racing the Beam - The Atari Video Computer System
   • Minitel - Welcome to the Internet
   • Developer's Dilemma: The Secret World of Videogame Creators
   • Silicon Second Nature - Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World
8. Two Hundred Fifty Things a Game Designer Should Know 2024-11-22

   tags: art, computer, creativity, design, game, history, poetry, programming

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9. SimCities and SimCrises - Transcript of the keynote for the 2017 International City Gaming Conference 2024-11-22

   tags: architecture/urban-planning, city, game/sandbox, game/sim-city, game/simulation, politics, research, science-fiction, society/demographics, weather

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   • Matteo Brittanti - How to get rid of homeless? - A 600-page epic split in two volumes documenting the so-called “homeless scandal” that affected the newly released game SimCity (Maxis/Electronic Arts, 2013)
   • Stanisław Lem - The Cyberiad
   • MIT - Urban Intervention Simulation (archive)
   • MIT - City Science Research Group
   • The Landlord's Game, a realty and taxation game intended to educate users about Georgism
   • Invisible Cities, prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience
10. Earth: A Primer - A science book for playful people 2024-11-22

    tags: book, game/sandbox, geology, interactive, planet/earth, visualization/animation

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11. The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art - On Cathode Ray Tubes, nostalgia and anachronisms 2024-11-19

    tags: art/pixel-art, game, history, image/dithering, monitor/crt

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12. Serious Engine Networing - Dive-In Analysis 2024-11-18

    tags: game-engine, game/multiplayer, network/udp

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    • Croteam-official/Serious-Engine
13. Image Dithering - Create the illusion of color depth in images on systems with a limited color palette 2024-11-18

    tags: color/palette, game, image/2d, image/compression, image/dithering, image/noise, indie

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    • Re: Return of the Obra Dinn [GDC 2016 Demo Build] - Dithering Process
    • Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
    • Cyan's Richard A. Watson - Dithering 101 (archive)
    • Differentiable Dithering
    • What the Heck is Blue Noise?
    • Generating Blue Noise Textures With Void And Cluster
      • Atrix256/VoidAndCluster
      • jdupuy/BlueNoiseDitherMaskTiles
    • Why Your Website Should Use Dithered Images
      • Dither Me This!
    • Why Your Website Should Not Use Dithered Images

    Online dithering tools:

    • Dither It! - A Web application to dither images
      • alexharris/ditherit-v2
    • Building Retro Dither: Dithering Algorithms, Run-Length Encoding, Resource Forks and More!
    • Blue Noise in Futhark
      • Munksgaard/bluenoise
14. Three Hundred Mechanics - Gameplay concepts and ideas 2024-11-16

    tags: game, graphics/2d, indie

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    • Three Hundred Prototypes
15. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music 2024-11-11

    tags: game-engine/flash, history, instrument/drum-machine, instrument/synthesizer, music/electro

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    This guide favors authenticity over accuracy, and it aims to entertain before it informs. It is only as accurate as it feels it needs to be. It is constantly changing and it is infinitely mutable, so the map, the music, and my self-righteous opinions are all subject to change as I discover, investigate, and incorporate new knowledge and more music. Nothing is definitive.

    Go exploring. Listen and learn about music you don't know anything about.

    • v1 Archive - Internet Artifacts
    • v2.5 Archive
    • r/EDM - Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music version 1 and 2.0
    • Histories of Internet Art - Interview with Kenneth John Taylor, a.k.a. Ishkur, by Joe Farbrook
16. Watabou's Procgen Arcana 2024-11-10

    tags: game/role-playing-game, image/2d, image/svg, map, procedural-generation, programming/haxe, programming/java

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    • watabou - itch.io
17. Cozy Space Survivors | Simonschreibt 2024-11-06

    tags: art/pixel-art, blender, game, game-engine/godot, game/roguelike, graphics/2d, indie

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18. PICO-8 Fantasy Console 2024-11-03

    tags: diy, game, graphics/2d, programming/lua, retro

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    • PICO-8 User Manual
    • PICO-ATE - Altruistic Template Encyclopedia for PICO-8
    • adventures in PICO-8 compression: mine1k
    • PICO-1k Game Jam
    • pico-8/awesome-PICO-8
    • picolove/picolove - PICO-8 Reimplementation in Love2D
19. Can Grafana run Doom? 2024-10-26

    tags: game/doom, network/websocket, observability/grafana, programming/webassembly

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    • grafana/doom-datasource
    • Grafana Demo - Doom Dashboards
20. Leela Zero - Go engine with no human-provided knowledge, modeled after the AlphaGo Zero paper 2024-05-02

    tags: game/go, neural-network, programming/c++, programming/java, research

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    • leela-zero/leela-zero
    • featurecat/lizzie - Leela Zero Interface
    • Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge [PDF]