Link List

Maxroll is a com­pre­hen­sive Dia­blo IV resource site offer­ing build guides, tier lists, boss strate­gies, and farm­ing tips for all class­es. It fea­tures lev­el­ing and endgame con­tent, craft­ing infor­ma­tion, sea­son­al updates, and tools like D4planner to help play­ers opti­mize their game­play.

Lat­tice is a Type­Script frame­work for build­ing iso­met­ric games in the brows­er with zero depen­den­cies. It includes 9 core libraries, 12 agent skills, and 34 doc­u­ment­ed fail­ure pat­terns, demon­strat­ed through 18 exam­ple games and three AI-gen­er­at­ed games under 200 lines each.

The Bézi­er Game is an inter­ac­tive brows­er game designed to teach play­ers how to use the pen tool through pro­gres­sive lev­els. Play­ers cre­ate shapes using Bézi­er curves while min­i­miz­ing the num­ber of nodes need­ed, with scor­ing based on effi­cien­cy com­pared to ide­al solu­tions. The game requires a key­board and mouse and offers tuto­ri­als, undo/​redo func­tion­al­i­ty, and dif­fi­cul­ty pro­gres­sion.

Solarus is a light­weight, free, open-source 2D game engine writ­ten in C++ with Lua script­ing. It fea­tures a graph­i­cal edi­tor and launch­er, sup­ports mul­ti­ple plat­forms, and has an active com­mu­ni­ty cre­at­ing games. Cur­rent sta­ble ver­sion is 2.0.4.

Uncan­ni­ly and cre­ative­ly envi­sioned, you did­n’t just walk into a Time Out ‑you were pulled in by feel­ings that you were rid­ing a sen­su­al con­vey­or belt, instant­ly enveloped by low-light shad­ows, mul­ti­col­ored walls and ceil­ings that gave you the sen­sa­tion that your sen­so­ry per­cep­tions were slight­ly askew. It was like you were high on elec­tron­ic…

Preser­va­tion­ists at the Video Game His­to­ry Foun­da­tion pur­chased the rights to Com­put­er Enter­tain­er, the first video game mag­a­zine ever writ­ten and uploaded it for free.

The Design of Adven­ture and Rock­y’s Boots. An unpub­lished book man­u­script from the dawn of the video-game age (writ­ten in 1983 – 84).

Also ForA­corn 32-bit, Ami­ga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, BBC Micro, CDTV, Com­modore 64, Elec­tron, FM Towns, Mac­in­tosh, OS/2, Palm OS, PC-98, Sharp X68000, SNES,…

Sites, aau­thors, and links to fol­low now that Poly­gon is dead.

The com­plete archive of Info­com game arti­facts and his­to­ry, includ­ing game infor­ma­tion, Invisi­clues, his­tor­i­cal arti­cles, and more! All pre­sent­ed in an enter­tain­ing, nos­tal­gic way.

CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI.

Open-Source Game Engine for Board Games / Card Games / Table­top Games

The PlaySta­tion 5 Pro is here — and Dig­i­tal Foundry presents its ver­dict.

It con­trols and looks great, though the game was out­shined by its sequels.