Thursday, August 28, 2008

Games Demystified: Super Mario Galaxy

It seems that most of my updates previously have either been review or rant types, so I thought it might be a nice change to track some of my favorite technical articles regarding games.

Games Demystified: Super Mario Galaxy

This article is the first in a recent series of articles by Jeremy Alessi that goes under the hood of some techniques utilized in recent popular games. Here, Jeremy describes how Nintendo developers basically fudged realistic gravity using the surface normals of the polygons that make up the planet's surface.

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