The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon

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The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon

Due to some lucky circumstances, I recently had the chance to appear in one of the biggest German gaming podcasts, Stay Forever, to talk about the technology of RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999). It was …

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I had always heard about how RCT was built in Assembly, and thought it was very impressive.

The more I actually started digging into assembly, the more this task seems monumental and impossible.

I didn't know there was a fork and I'm excited to look into it

Macros. Lots of macros.