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OpenLara on ESP32
Playable Tomb Raider runs on a humble 1-watt chip

By Mark Tyson Published

A retro video gaming devotee has showcased Lara Croft adventuring in and among ancient tombs on a humble ESP32-P4 microcontroller.

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Google maps entire brain and central nervous system of adult male fruit fly, software engineers immediately make it run Doom

By Mark Tyson Published

Any sufficiently advanced technology will immediately be forced to play Doom.

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Walk through a 3D cyberpunk city built purely from ASCII characters

By Luke James Published

Solo developer Grow Now! Games has put a playable browser build of its walkable ASCII cyberpunk city online, powered by a 283KB Rust WebAssembly engine and rendered in WebGL.

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Mind-bending self-replicating GIF code prints an exact copy of itself, is both a program and its own visual output

By Mark Tyson Published

A champion coder's latest confection is a Piet Quine – a GIF image that prints itself byte-for-byte.

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Daring coder gets Doom running with regular expressions at 180 seconds per frame

By Bruno Ferreira Published

Daring coder gets Doom running with regular expressions at 180 seconds per frame by using one text string to the machine, engine, and video output

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Former Epic director is building a European rival to the Unreal and Unity game engines

By Mark Tyson Published

A heavyweight games industry veteran says he is building a fully European alternative to popular games engines from American and Chinese companies.

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A screenshot from the PlayCanvas FPS game made with gaussian splats showing impressive visual realism.
Developer creates a basic first person shooter game using Gaussian splats, and you can play it for free in your browser

By Zak Killian Published

It's not much of a game, but it's an impressive proof of concept for the novel technology.

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Enterprising developer somehow writes an x86 CPU emulator in plain CSS — no Javascript, no WASM, just stylesheet computing

By Bruno Ferreira Published

Enterprising developer somehow writes an x86 CPU emulator in plain CSS

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Developer recreates classic scroller Zaxxon as a UEFI firmware

By Mark Tyson Published

A Zaxxon remake, coded in x86-64 Assembly language, is now available as a UEFI application.

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LidAngleSensor.app in action
Apple MacBooks have a sensor that measures the angle of the screen

By Mark Tyson Last updated

An engineer has tapped into Apple’s LidAngleSensor MacBook API, adding a creaky door sound effect to his lid angle measurement app.

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