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The surprising difficulty of resizing images on spritesheets
Spritesheets (aka texture atlases) are a common technique in computer graphics to combine multiple images on to a single image. Ho... Read more
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From WebGL to WebGPU in Construct
This is the second in a series of two blog posts about web graphics, WebGPU, and Construct. The first is A brief history of graphi... Read more
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A brief history of graphics on the web and WebGPU
Graphics technologies have changed a lot over the years, including on the web, and the web is on the cusp of its next big change w... Read more
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Performance isolation for HTML5 games with Web Workers
I mentioned on Twitter it might be nice to get back in to blogging while the world's in lockdown. So here we go, the first in hope... Read more
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Construct's effect compositor: part 2
This is the second blog in a series about the code in Construct that renders effects, called the effect compositor . In case you m... Read more
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Construct's effect compositor: part 1
One of the cool things you can do in Construct is add multiple effects to an object. For example you can add a Warp effect to dist... Read more
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Optimising events with function binding
Shortly after finishing the expression-to-JavaScript compiler , I realised a couple of the performance tricks we used there could... Read more
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How browsers should handle autoplay restrictions
It's annoying when web pages unexpectedly blare out audio, so I can understand why Chrome 66 changes when web pages can autoplay a... Read more
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Edge 17 supports open media codecs
We've long blogged about media codecs (the formats that audio and video are stored in) on the web. Two of our first five ever blog... Read more
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Software development is hard: a collision bug post-mortem
Recently we received a bug report of a mysterious collision issue that only happened at certain positions. It turned out to be a s... Read more
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