The Sudoku puzzle consists of a grid of 9x9 cells. This 81-cell grid is further subdivided into nine subgrids of 3x3 cells. A few of the cells are filled with a single digit between 1 and 9 (the givens). To solve the puzzle, the empty cells must be filled in such a way that every 9-cell row, column, and subgrid contains each of the digits between 1 and 9.

gameQuery is a jQuery plug-in to help make javascript games easier to develop by adding some simple mechanism and commodity. It's still in a very early stage of development may change a lot in the version to come. The project has now also a Google Code page where the svn repository of the project will soon be hosted.

A well-supported open source project, Delta3D is a full-function game engine appropriate for a wide variety of modeling & simulation applications (training, education, visualizations, and entertainment).

A simple solution to resolve a Sudoku Grid, using Linq.

We, as people, all make mistakes. We, as game developers, make mistakes as well. Some of these mistakes are trivial and don’t bring upon us too much consequences. However, there are a few that we need to avoid with as much effort as possible, lest they turn our games into disasters.

We, as people, all make mistakes. We, as game developers, make mistakes as well. Some of these mistakes are trivial and don’t bring upon us too much consequences. However, there are a few that we need to avoid with as much effort as possible, lest they turn our games into disasters.

Clarity Battleship is a multi-player game in which players code the "artificial intelligence" needed to command their fleet to victory on the high seas. The game is built using WPF and WCF.

Better SWF compression with KZIP and DeflOpt.

Playable game in 100 lines of html/javascript. No any 3d libraries. Pure knowledge :)

There are, and there have been, thousands, maybe even millions of very successful games that have been released to the world. Some of them fully deserve their popularity while others aren’t the best. But, the one thing they have in common with each other is that they are liked. There are many beliefs about making a popular game. I’m going to try to sift out the false ones.

Notice that purple has moved his line of towers forward. The A.I. dynamically adjusts its defensive frontier as conditions change in the game, and has a tendency to “push” a line of towers forward, just like a real RTS player often does.

Imagine if all game developers had access to a free set of tools like the Spore creature creator.

The BuildingBrowsergames blog has had a long series of entries showing how to build an online game. Each entry has thus far been completed first in PHP and then again using Perl. This is my blog entry which has an overview and key for the entire series of postings and it serves as an announcement that I've started converting all the entries over to Ruby on Rails as well.

MonkeyWorld 3D 4.1 is now available for download.

Any game developed using agile makes progress using iterations. The goal of every team for every iteration should be to make progress by adding value to the game or pipeline for a customer. This might be a the improvement to a core feature for the player who buys the game or a function for the animator using the asset pipeline or a tool.

If you’ve ever made any type of game, you should know that it usually takes a pretty large chunk of time to develop. Nobody likes to waste time, well at least I don’t, so here’s a list of methods that I use to prevent time wasting.

A fixed pitch pixel font with outline for easier debugging. Great for games which utilize direct blitting. Bonus round: static intializers in AS3.

Strong industry support for state-of-the-art OpenGL 3.0 API and GLSL 1.30 shading language specifications on all major platforms; OpenGL evolutionary model to accelerate development of standard; Interoperability with OpenCL being defined

“Usability” is a term used many times in web design and development. It basically means the ease of use or navigation that a website has. It also includes some other specifics like design conventions which we will touch on later. But for now, let us apply some of these usability ideas to flash games.

Khronos Group has announced the release of the OpenGL 3.0 API specification and the GLSL 1.30 shading language specification.

Since most computer games make heavy use of either 2D or 3D graphics, you will need skills in the mathematical areas that are required for success in 2D and 3D graphics programming. As a minimum, this includes but is not limited to skills in, Geometry, Trigonometry, Vectors, Matrices, 2D and 3D transforms, Transformations between coordinate systems, Projections...

The internet has grown much since its creation in 1969. It is still growing rapidly today. As a flash game developer, you must grab a spot in this ocean of links if you want to have a better experience developing your flash game.

An overview of how chess programs work, specifically the Minimax algorithm, and why they aren't really "intelligent".

There is the well known mines game nicely implemented with pure JavaScript/CSS/HTML. Someone might be interested in an example of quite complex JavaScript work, so here it is. All the source codes are available at github.

MAME emulator done in Flash by Korean developer! No audio for now, but plays really smooth. Fun to be able to play retro games right in the browser.