By Shane Calimlim email twitter WayForward's art style is one of its signatures. Ensuring that our texture compression can preserve the amazing work done by our artists is a top priority, especially when revisiting beloved franchises like DuckTales. In the past we were bound to paletted pixel art on…

A monitored semaphore allows two-sided waiting : The consumer side decs the semaphore, and waits on the count being positive. The producer side incs the semaphore, and can wait on the count being a certain negative value (some number of waiting consumers). Monitored semaphore solves a specific…

I’m gonna dig into some of the tech behind Dynamite Jack, so hold onto your seats. So, a lot of devs are into Component Object game design. That article is by a friend of mine who goes into a…

I'm tired, so I'll write this as a "note to self" (even more than how I usually do here). Hot-swapping (and similar concepts) are often implemented with object handles and a…

Getting it out There In my relatively short time in the industry I seem to have attracted a few fixer-uppers, reboots, ports and all round oh do you mind just finishing it off jobs. Some of the…

We just finished porting The Witness to D3D11. It took a little longer than I was hoping and one of the unexpected difficulties was getting our D3D9 HLSL shaders to work in D3D11. The D3D shader…

I’ve been planning to write a post about debugging multiplayer games (post-mortem) for a while now, but it keeps getting bigger and bigger, so instead of waiting until I can get enough time to finish it, I thought it’d be easier to share some quick’n’easy tricks first. I’d like to show a simple way…

Advocacy / Game Design / Technology/ Code / Visual Arts / The first part of this article took a closer look at why people with outstanding art, design or programming skills sometimes struggle or even…

Advocacy / Game Design / Technology/ Code / Visual Arts / What to do after you get promoted into a leadership position should be a trivial question to answer, but in my experience the opposite is…

We have recently started to look into adding an entity/component system to the Bitsquid engine. You may be surprised to learn that the Bitsquid engine isn't already component based. But actually…

Things are changing so rapidly in mobile hardware that we are starting to enter an era where no longer will there a difference in feature sets or capabilities between what your phone can do, and what…

I’ve been making some low-level optimizations in the C4 Engine’s rendering code lately with the goal of speeding up The 31st by reducing the amount of CPU work and driver overhead…