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Making progress

An insecurity I had about moving forward with scripting/making the state machine video was that I didn't have enough experience/evidence gathered to support the core thesis. Luckily, gathering evidence i...

State machines and emergent behavior

Another candidate video idea on the backlog is the way I've been approaching game AI design, and more broadly, gameplay design. A very natural approach in action gameplay design is to separately design enemy characters before assembling them into encounters to take advantage of emergent synergies...

Thoughts on 3D->2D Cameras

There is a germ of a video idea here which has been difficult to distill into an actual script that's reasonably producible.

One of the struggles of making a "top-down" 3D action adventure game in the style of the prototypical 2D entries in the genre is that the camera orientation is not we...

Pixel Art AA Video Notes

Edit: The final video, and therefore, this post, is now publicly available :) Thanks for the early feedback.

Below are some supplementary notes:

Bilinear Sampling

In the video, I describe the bilinear sampler as a 2023-05-20 12:50:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Upcoming Video

A few months ago I ran into the need to render some pixel art assets at arbitrary, sometimes non-integer upscaling ratios, and not always aligned to the device's native pixel grid, without suffering from the aliasing and jittering artifacts you would normally get with a nearest-neighbor sampler.<...

Procedural Animation Video Notes

For a first post here, I thought I'd revisit some points that were cut from the previous video, which some viewers asked about in the comments, as well as some common questions.

Isn't all this math expensive to compute?

This is a surprisingly common question, but while the derivatio...