Stories by klaussilveira

Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine

Unravel Engine: Cross-Platform C++20 Game Engine with Wysiwyg Editor

Network Next: network accelerator for multiplayer games

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

ZMEM: Binary message format with minimal memory overhead and zero copy access

Fallout 4 – The Mushroom Case

Cacoco: Sbardef Editor Written in Rust

JZBuilder is a map editor for Doom, built for the web

Ogre 14.5 Released

Dhewm3 1.5.5 RC1 – Soft particles, BC7, responsive GUI, no micro stutters

Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games: IdTech8 Global Illumination [video]

Realtime Raytracing in Bevy 0.18 (Solari)

Singleton Done Right in C++

Rtsdf: Real-Time Signed Distance Fields for Soft Shadow Approximation in Games

Video Game Websites in the early 00s

Pyinfra: Turns Python code into shell commands and runs them on your servers

An Optimized Soft Shadow Volume Algorithm with Real-Time Performance [pdf]

TrenchBroom 2025.4 Release

Hy-Motion 1.0: Scaling Flow Matching Models for 3D Motion Generation

Hemispherical lighting insights from the Call of Duty graphics engineering [pdf]

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