The Game Porting Paradox
⏲ 10 min
Yup, some of the best games aren't ported. Why technical and licensing reasons fights in a Mortal Kombat FFA to mess with your sanity.
Designing a Hardware Product
⏲ 36 min
Designing a hardware product is much harder than designing a software product. Who would've guessed?
The AAA Industry and Modding Tools
⏲ 14 min
Hoppity bopity, my toolkit is not your property: The increasingly rare modding support in AAA games.
The Unseen life of Alphas and Beta games
⏲ 3 min
What if the best version of a game is the one we never get to play?
Where have the fun architectures of the arcade gone?
⏲ 6 min
Arcade hardware's wild custom-chip era died when PC economics won. But why?
In Defense of Fixed Function Pipelines...
⏲ 3 min
Why do I think the fixed-function era's feel more cohesive than today's anything-goes shaders.