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Bram Stolk

@mazarax

Bram is an independent game developer.

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Bram Stolk
@mazarax Jan 13, 2018, 12:02 AM UTC

The day I found a glitch in "The Matrix" and questioned Reality.

I am a level-headed guy, with immediate distrust of anything spiritual. This is a tale about the most spiritual thing that ever happened to me, and briefly caused me to rethink my existence. It must…

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Bram Stolk
@mazarax Jan 10, 2018, 9:07 PM UTC

World Editor for Ray Traced game.

I am creating a real-time ray-traced game. And the last few days I spent on creating a world-editor for it. The world-editor is in-game, so I can simply drag and drop elements from a palette into the…

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Bram Stolk
@mazarax Dec 25, 2017, 8:49 PM UTC

Merry Xmas and a happy 12018 HE.

First off, I want to wish everyone a merry Christmas, and for later this week, a happy new year. For an atheist, the 2018 number is of course a somewhat random number. But a smart scientist, called C…

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Bram Stolk
@mazarax Dec 25, 2017, 5:31 AM UTC

Inline Profiling for Linux

A couple of months ago, I wrote an inline profiling tool for linux called ThreadTracer. The existing solutions for Open Sourced Inline Profiling were kind of limited. I needed a profiler that would n…

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Bram Stolk
@mazarax Dec 23, 2017, 5:00 AM UTC

From C to C++ and back again.

As a kid I learned to program. Mainly in Basic and Z80 machine language. In university, I learned a wide range of new languages, of which the C programming language stuck the most. After university,…

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Bram Stolk
@mazarax Dec 20, 2017, 3:11 AM UTC

From zero to snake in 900 seconds

This is intended to be the gentlest introduction to programming video games that I could imagine. An easy to follow tutorial that breaks it down in simple steps. The end result is a short Python prog…

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Bram Stolk
@mazarax Dec 19, 2017, 8:08 PM UTC

EOS Token distribution seeing a lot of subscribers.

Today's EOS Token distribution seems seriously oversubscribed for this time of day. Normally the buyers come in at the end of the day when the price is better determined. But with 6 hours to go, the…

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Bram Stolk
@mazarax Dec 19, 2017, 7:11 PM UTC

Steering Game Objects with P.I.D. Control

In a video game, objects move around, otherwise it could be a boring game. And movement means that the object position changes over time. How these position changes are implemented in code fall in on…

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Bram Stolk
@mazarax Dec 19, 2017, 3:18 AM UTC

Exquisite motorcycle from the start of the millennium: Sachs 1000 Beast.

Such elegance. The Sachs 1000 Beast was a concept, that unfortunately saw production. Its lines are so clean and sharp.

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Bram Stolk
@mazarax Dec 18, 2017, 8:43 PM UTC

My game under development.

This is my current game project. It is a real-time ray traced game. With the dramatic lighting I am leaning towards making it a story based game, maybe even horror like. Not sure yet. It is rendered…

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