The creator of Cloudberry Kingdom shares his techniques for his procedurally-generated level designs. It’s a great inside look at one of the most difficult concepts to master in game development.
How to Make Insane, Procedural Platformer Levels
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Another Glimpse at the Future of Video Game Planets [Video]Kotaku
Tinkering around with Directx 11, Romanian developer Silviu Andrei is building an engine capable of rendering not corridors, or arenas, but entire planets. More »
According to a rumor, the next Xbox’s controller may feature the ability to detect a “squeeze” from the user as input, possibly for ID’ing the player. Hey, it’s bound to work better than the Kinect’s Facial Recognition….
Here’s Hoping The Next Xbox Really Does Feature Squeeze-Controls [Durango]Kotaku
A report over at Engadget shows a patent filed by Microsoft for a device that uses “personalization using a hand-pressure signature.” The image in their patent filing is a chunky, lovable Xbox 360 controller that, going by the title, will be able to detect your identity based on your hand-pressure via a “presure sensitive surface.” And maybe read your fingerprints? More »
I’ve always wanted to check out one of these places, and see how my great-grandparents disposed of their spare change.
What Arcades Looked Like Before Video Games [Arcades]Kotaku
The word “arcade” is these days synonymous with video games, but it wasn’t always that way. More »
This game was awesome on Wii, and just as fun on iOS. So there's no excuse not to pick it up while it's free.
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Hey! I'm Mike, this is my blog. and my dream is to use my middling tech skills to make the world a better place (not in the techno-libertarian, "the world is a better place if I get mine" sense, but in the actual, "I want to help" sense).
