Posts about gaming.
Welcome to Cover Art! A section of the site where we look at a retro video game’s box cover art and briefly discuss it’s gameplay and legacy.
“From the Publisher of DOOM” and a rating of “Violence“. Those were selling points in 1994. While those things were both true, the Raven Software developed Heretic certainly didn’t need to rely on those things.
Heretic is a fantasy … [ Read More... ]
Michael Abrash, literally a genius programmer, recently posted on his blog at Valve regarding some of his VR (virtual reality) & AR (augmented reality) research. It’s chock-full of ideas and thoughts about the obstacles to overcome with VR/AR controller latency. That is making your control in the game world as instant and natural as it would be in real life. He says that even having controls be 99% accurate … [ Read More... ]
Good news for you cheap gamers out there, Russian programmer Aleksander Guryanov has ported the RTS PC DOS classic Dune II right to your browser. He made it happen with HTML5 and Javascript so you can play it in basically any modern browser and even most mobile phone/tablet browsers. It’s based on the OpenDune project, which was originally created to port the original Dune II game to modern computers as … [ Read More... ]
We all should remember Myst. Back in its day it was the highest selling game of all time, and for quite a while at that. Inside the game you come across various foreign and unusual technologies, one of which is the “Linking Book” (You can see it in this gameplay video). It allowed people to record video messages so that others could view them later. It … [ Read More... ]