How game engines revolutionized visual effects in gaming
William Davis
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It’s hard to imagine the pixelated brilliance of the 80s. Back then, creating a new game was brutal. Every title, even the simplest ones, needed code built from the ground up. You wanted a sprite to move? You wrote the code. You wanted sound? Another wall of code. It was, frankly, a slog. As games grew more ambitious, developers needed new tools. So they began tinkering, building reusable code snippets. …
How one anonymous modder revived Infinity Blade
William Davis
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In gaming, the term ‘modder’ refers to a player or hobbyist who builds or tweaks games, software, or equipment to create their own version. Here is a closer look at a story that is currently making the rounds about how one anonymous modder recently brought one of the most popular mobile games, Infinity Blade, to PC over five years after it was taken off the App Store. Infinity Blade was …