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🎉 Celebrating 25 Years of GameDev.net! 🎉 Not many can claim 25 years on the Internet! Join us in celebrating this milestone. Learn more about our history, and thank you for being a part of our community! edit:Seeing this has been linked outside of game-development circles: "ECS" (this wikipedia page is garbage, btw -- it conflates EC-frameworks and ECS-frameworks, which aren't the same...) is a

If you search on the web for the best C++ source code. The Doom3 source code is mentioned many times, with testimonials like this one. I spent a bit of time going through the Doom3 source code. It's probably the cleanest and nicest looking code I've ever seen. Doom 3 is a video game developed by id Software and published by Activision.The game was a commercial success for id Software; with more th

1) Fractals - Fractals are a viable alternative to noise algorithms for solving particular problems. The challenge is finding a suitable fractal and tweaking its values to generate the desired results. The approach of layering successive layers of noise at decreasing scales is commonly considered to be a fractal; ie, it demonstrates self-similarity at increasingly small scales. So this statement d

Math for Game Developers is exactly what it sounds like - a weekly instructional YouTube series wherein I show you how to use math to make your games. Every Thursday we'll learn how to implement one game design, starting from the underlying mathematical concept and ending with its C++ implementation. The videos will teach you everything you need to know, all you need is a basic understanding of al

Recent versions of JavaScript engines are designed to execute large bodies of code very fast but if you don't know how JavaScript engines work internally you could easily degrade your application's performance. It's specially true for games that need every drop of performance they can get. In this article I will try to explain some common optimization methods for JavaScript code that I picked up d

What exactly is an Octree? If you're completely unfamiliar with them, I recommend reading the Wikipedia article (read time: ~5 minutes). This is a sufficient description of what it is but is barely enough to give any ideas on what it's used for and how to actually implement one. In this article, I will do my best to take you through the steps necessary to create an octree data structure through co

It is good for programmers to understand what goes on inside a processor. The CPU is at the heart of our career. What goes on inside the CPU? How long does it take for one instruction to run? What does it mean when a new CPU has a 12-stage pipeline, or 18-stage pipeline, or even a "deep" 31-stage pipeline? Programs generally treat the CPU as a black box. Instructions go into the box in order, inst

An RPG in a week, starting from scratch? How hard could it be? I did it because of a dare. There are many great resources available to small, budget-conscious independent game developers today. On a public forum, in a counter-rant, I expressed this fact by bragging that if you gave me a week, a fresh install of Windows, and a good Internet connection, I could build a halfway decent game with no bu