Reaction-Diffusion: Gray-Scott on a 2D Grid

A detailed breakdown of the Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion algorithm. Includes an interactive canvas demo and explains the PDE model, Laplacian stencil, double buffering, and boundary handling.

Behaviour Trees versus State Machines | Queen Of Squiggles's Blog

XC-BASIC Shoot 'em Up: Programming the PET Part 2

In "Programming the Commodore PET part 2" we start coding a single-screen shoot 'em up video game using XC-BASIC.

I Tried 3 Web Game Frameworks (So You Don’t Have To)

I went on a quest to test the 3 most popular 2D web game frameworks according to their NPM download numbers.

Around The World, Part 29: One year in

Exactly one year ago this Valentine’s Day, I started development on Around The World. Let’s look back on the past, but more importantly, look forward at what’s still ahead.

Khronos Announces glTF Gaussian Splatting Extension

Today, The Khronos Group, announces a release candidate for the…

How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate

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Standardizing HLSL - DirectX Developer Blog

The HLSL team is excited to announce the formation of Ecma Technical Committee 57; a committee to standardize the High Level Shading Language. The formation of this committee marks an important milestone in HLSL’s development and strengthens Microsoft’s commitment to HLSL as a cross-platform language, built in collaboration with equal partners across the industry. All […]

Khronos at 25: Shaping Visual Computing with Open Standards

In 2025, Khronos reached an impressive milestone: 25 years of member-driven open standards development. The graphics, compute, and media landscape looked wildly different in 2000, when Khronos was formed, than it does today. Era-defining technologies such as smartphones, cloud computing, and the metaverse hadn’t yet emerged into the marketplace. The founders of Khronos were on the forefront of these emerging technologies. They knew that withou