Braid: Soundtrack + Level Editor!

Braid is finally out on the PC. Jonathan Blow is working on some bugs. AAAAND there’s the official release of the Braid Soundtrack, and a Level Editor! Soundtrack The Braid Soundtrack is available on Magnatune with two remixes of songs from the game (Maenam and Undercurrent by Jami Sieber, Jon Schatz remix)! The soundtrack itself [...]

Our Flag is Secure!

Shazbot!!! I’m so excited that the TribesNext project has stepped up to fill in the gap that formed since Sierra dropped the Tribes 2 online multiplayer servers last November 1, 2008. On the site they boast: Robust, fully integrated and automated account system. No need to wait or worry, you can create and log in to your account [...]

Inverse Square Root

I just bumped into a clever little code snippet used to find the inverse square root: float InvSqrt(float x){ float xhalf = 0.5f * x; int i = *(int*)&x; // store floating-point bits in integer i = 0x5f3759d5 – (i >> 1); // initial guess for Newton’s method x = *(float*)&i; // convert new bits [...]