Games: Steam Deck, Godot, Free Software, and Pong
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How to Upgrade Your 64GB Steam Deck’s Storage Capacity Now to 512GB for Just $60
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Release candidate: Godot 4.0 RC 3
We're almost ready to release Godot 4.0! Barring any last minute critical regression, this RC should reflect what the 4.0-stable release will be.
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Utilising FOSS in Video Game Development
In recent years, the utilisation of Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) has gained significant popularity within the gaming industry.
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Let Machine Learning Code An Infinite Variety Of Pong Games
In a very real way, Pong started the video game revolution. You wouldn’t have thought so at the time, with its simple gameplay, rudimentary controls, some very low-end sounds, and a cannibalized TV for a display, but the legendarily stuffed coinboxes tell the tale. Fast forward 50 years or so, and Pong has been largely reduced to a programmer’s exercise to see how few lines of code can stand in for what [Ted Dabney] and [Allan Alcorn] accomplished. But now even that’s too much, as OpenAI Codex can generate a playable Pong from just a few prompts, at least most of the time.