Amit Patel @redblobgames

I explain algorithms and math with interactive web pages (incl. pathfinding, hexagons, procgen maps, voronoi). Wrote Solar Realms Elite; helped w/@rotmg_news redblobgames.com Silicon Valley CA & Seattle WA Joined January 2012

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Amit Patel @redblobgames

5 days ago

I don't know when they did this, but gamasutra/gamedeveloper.com changed their urls so that the links from my site to their articles now redirect to their marketing page. So I'll stop linking to them. Tired of sites breaking links. I need to re-read gwern.net/archiving

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Chrisman @chrisman

a week ago

I’ve been intensely interested in skill development, learning, and education since I was 17. The most important thing I’ve learned is that you MUST break down complex skills into smaller sub-skills and work on the sub-skills ONE AT A TIME. For example, my wife was…

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Roguelike Celebration @roguelike_con

5 days ago

Can you believe this schedule? roguelike.club/event2025.html Join us in our carnival-themed MUD space on Oct 25-26 for this incredible lineup of speakers and talks on all things roguelike!

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Topotoy Labs @topotoylabs

2 weeks ago

New blog post: "Procedural Island Generation (II)" - Building on our Delaunay/Voronoi mesh foundation, we now create a low resolution base elevation map that defines the overall island shape. brashandplucky.com/2025/09/10/pro… #gamedev #indiedev #procedural #terrain

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argonaut @argonautcode

a year ago

New video is finally out! youtu.be/qlfh_rv6khY #proceduralanimation #tutorial

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Amit Patel @redblobgames

2 weeks ago

Love the example in the Slack docs: docs.slack.dev/legacy/legacy-…

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Topotoy Labs @topotoylabs

3 weeks ago

New blog post: "Procedural Island Generation (I)" - Started a mini-series exploring terrain generation techniques inspired by the lovely mapgen4 project by @redblobgames. brashandplucky.com/2025/09/07/pro… #gamedev #indiedev #procedural #terrain

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Ben Dicken @BenjDicken

3 weeks ago

Hunt down and eliminate your N+1s. The N+1 query problem is dangerous yet easy to overlook: When a single query provides a result set, then a follow-up query is needed for each result. The number of queries needed to load a page is determined by the result set size, leading to…

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FrostKiwi🇩🇪🇷🇺🇯🇵🇬🇧 @FrostKiwiOne

4 weeks ago

New Article released 🚀 #SoME4 blog.frost.kiwi/dual-kawase/

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Dan Hollick @DanHollick

4 weeks ago

Last week, I published a chapter about color. It's fairly comprehensive: makingsoftware.com/chapters/color…

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Ivan Zhao @ivanhzhao

a month ago

For those of local first nerds and @inkandswitch fans: This is the paper co-authored by @sliminality @geoffreylitt @pvh Martin Kleppmann inkandswitch.com/peritext/ Thank you for laying the technical foundation for block-based, rich text CRDT for the world.