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Chipmunk is a simple, lightweight, fast, and portable 2D rigid body physics library written in C. I’ve recently helped update the Ruby chipmunk gem to the newest version of the Chipmunk code to brush up on my C skills. There have been loads of features and performance enhancements added since the last chipmunk gem was…
Before I came to Atomic, I spent several years working in the video game industry. I left it for a number of reasons, but I wanted to still pursue game development as a side project. When recently I started up a new game project, I went looking for a good engine. My requirements were: Cross-platform…
The Strange Loop conference last month was one of the best technical conferences I have ever attended. The topics ranged greatly, and the depth of each talk was amazing. The speakers included: Bret Victor, Jeff Hawkins, Brendan Eich, Rich Hickey, and more (talks are available on github). In the aftermath of my head exploding from…
Here at AO we have a few game developer hobbyists. I’ve been tweaking the basic 2D collision detection in Gamebox for awhile now. When Chipmunk 6 released with performance gains, I decided to take a look. Part of the secret sauce was the use of an axis-aligned bounding box tree (AABB tree). Porting this simple…
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