Awesome games that are also free Feb 21, 2008

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Tags: Cave Story, Free, OpenTTD, Retro gaming, Reviews, Software, Star Control, Video games

Here is yet another list of free games considered awesome by the majority of this blog’s writers (me). Included are Cave Story, OpenTTD and The Ur-Quan Masters.

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Hardware-accelerated 2D collision detection in OpenGL Jul 11, 2007

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Tags: OpenGL, Programming, Quake 2, Side-scroller, Video

NB: Here is a better post about the below algorithm. Includes source code. The idea Did you know you can do pixel accurate collision detection using the OpenGL stencil buffer and occlusion queries? I got this idea while working on a 2D/3D game engine (think of a side-scroller but with 3D objects). A proof that [...]

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