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Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find (bbc.com)

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Computer program that learns to play classic NES games (youtube.com)

L 8 pts 1 comments by jcs Apr 11, 2013 compscigamesvideo Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Gaming / Retro Computing thread

EU takes on “misleading” free-to-play games (arstechnica.com)

L 2 pts 0 comments by lm Feb 28, 2014 games Gaming / Retro Computing thread

2,386 MS-DOS Games Playable in Browser (archive.org)

L 30 pts 4 comments by pushcx Jan 6, 2015 gamesrelease Web Development Gaming / Retro Computing thread

learnfun and playfun: A general technique for automating NES games (cs.cmu.edu)

L 4 pts 0 comments by julienxx Apr 21, 2015 games Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Balancing Multiplayer Competitive Games (static1.squarespace.com)

L 7 pts 0 comments by pushcx May 23, 2015 gamespdf Gaming / Retro Computing thread

(2014) Jonathan Blow - Ideas about a new programming language for games (youtube.com)

L 18 pts 2 comments by akurilin Sep 19, 2015 gamesgoprogrammingrustvideo Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Gaming / Retro Computing thread

MarI/O - Machine Learning for Video Games (youtube.com)

L 3 pts 0 comments by luiz Nov 24, 2015 cogscicompscigamesluavideo AI / Machine Learning Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Science / Math / Physics Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Propaganda Games: Sesame Credit - The True Danger of Gamification (youtube.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by pushcx Dec 29, 2015 gameslawvideo Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Development and Deployment of Massively Multiplayer Games (ithare.com)

L 7 pts 0 comments by jitterted Jan 5, 2016 designdistributedgamesscaling Data / Databases / Infrastructure Design / UX / Visualization Gaming / Retro Computing Productivity / Career / Business thread

Links to parts of this book-in-progress have already been posted here on Lobsters, but this page has the whole thing, which apparently is updated weekly.

Playing Games Across the Superintelligence Divide (game.engineering.nyu.edu)

L 4 pts 0 comments by mjn Feb 12, 2016 cogscigamespdf Science / Math / Physics Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Some colleagues of mine wrote an interesting speculative paper on whether superintelligent AI would play games with humans, and how that might work. Part of the [AAAI Workshop on AI, Ethics and Society](https://www.aaai.org/Workshops/ws16workshops.php#ws02).

How To Design Deep Games (youtube.com)

L 8 pts 1 comments by pushcx Mar 28, 2016 gamespracticesvideo Design / UX / Visualization Gaming / Retro Computing Productivity / Career / Business thread

Broadly applicable to multi-year creative projects.

Automatic 3Dification of Nintendo games: The glEnd() of Zelda (youtube.com)

L 13 pts 1 comments by calvin Apr 2, 2016 gamesgraphicsprogrammingvideo Programming (General)Gaming / Retro Computing thread

What games are you playing/recommend?

L 16 pts 41 comments by unbalancedparentheses Jul 28, 2016 askgames Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Thanks to lobsters I have found two awesome games that I have been playing for the last two weeks: - [Endless Legend](https://explorminate.net/2014/09/17/endless-legend-review/) - [Overwatch](https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/05/27/overwatch-review/) I downloaded but did not really played...

Unprecedented raw footage of the Japanese games industry (gamasutra.com)

L 6 pts 0 comments by friendlysock Aug 1, 2016 gameshistoricalpracticesvideo Gaming / Retro Computing Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Dropbox dropping support for playable HTML - the implications for IF games (gameshelf.jmac.org)

L 3 pts 2 comments by zem Sep 8, 2016 games Web Development Gaming / Retro Computing thread

A New Way of Playing Japanese and English Games Side-By-Side (legendsoflocalization.com)

L 4 pts 1 comments by Screwtape Nov 16, 2016 gamesreversing Systems / Low-Level / OS Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Why Making Multiplayer Games is Hard: Lag Compensating Weapons in MechWarrior Online (gamasutra.com)

L 10 pts 3 comments by friendlysock Dec 22, 2016 gamesnetworkingpractices Data / Databases / Infrastructure Gaming / Retro Computing Productivity / Career / Business thread

The History of Computer Role Playing Games, final preview (crpgbook.wordpress.com)

L 5 pts 0 comments by pushcx Apr 19, 2017 bookgameshistorical Gaming / Retro Computing Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The role of the servers behind multiplayer games (cakesolutions.net)

L 4 pts 0 comments by treibsandmann May 6, 2017 games Gaming / Retro Computing thread

How do Multiplayer Game sync their state? Part 2

Building multiplayer games with socket.io and HTML5 Canvas (github.com)

L 4 pts 0 comments by pushcx Sep 23, 2017 gamesjavascriptweb Web Development Gaming / Retro Computing thread

More [really good advice](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15319154) in the YC News comments.

PlayArchive - A commandline tool to play classic games from 'The Tnternet Archive' (notabug.org)

L 1 pts 0 comments by pizzaiolo Oct 11, 2017 gamesshow Programming (General)Gaming / Retro Computing Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

TIC-80: a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games (tic.computer)

L 24 pts 10 comments by Yogthos Dec 8, 2017 artgamesprogramming Programming (General)Gaming / Retro Computing Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

GitHub page for the project https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80

Play Awesome Indie Games Directly in Firefox Including the Award-Winning FTL (2014) (blog.mozilla.org)

L 3 pts 2 comments by mulander Jan 16, 2018 browsersgames Web Development Gaming / Retro Computing thread

I'm submitting it because TIL I can play FTL on OpenBSD.

Computer Role-Playing Games Book released (crpgbook.wordpress.com)

L 8 pts 5 comments by mjn Feb 5, 2018 bookgameshistorical Gaming / Retro Computing Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

All we want to do is watch each other play video games (nytimes.com)

~ 17 pts 17 comments by unknown May 4, 2018 ~games Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Hundreds Of Fortnite Players Are Calling A Store Named 'Epic Loot Games' (kotaku.com)

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What are your favourite 3DS games, and what 3DS games are you playing right now?

~ 8 pts 12 comments by unknown Jun 4, 2018 ~games Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Best single player experience - Offline / MMORPG games?

~ 8 pts 35 comments by unknown Jun 5, 2018 ~games Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Alternatives to older games that were amazing to play

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