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Shamus Young’s Game-Culture Archive

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Programmer and author Shamus Young collects videogame criticism, programming essays, music experiments, and personal writing on his site.

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For: Readers of videogame criticism and programming essays
Worth noticing: Featured links span an annotated QuakeCon technology keynote, an OpenGL history, and a project recreating videogame soundtrack styles.

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The landing page separates the blog from a hand-picked “good stuff” index, and each featured link gets a short description of its argument or premise. The archive ranges from an annotated QuakeCon technology keynote and an OpenGL history to a self-taught videogame-soundtrack composition project; it also includes a Minecraft-style octree experiment. The author says the blog has averaged about one update per day since 2005, though the excerpt does not show the latest post date.

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