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Frictional Games
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Frictional Games is the company blog at frictionalgames.com, writing about games and programming. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-27, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Frictional Games' blog, linked for a 2014 tech feature on screen-space ambient occlusion (SSAO) and related rendering topics, alongside a note on Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
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What Hacker News says?
Amnesia: The Dark Descent is the example that always comes to mind for me (2010, also available on Linux at the time). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBZ7NEyPUDw https://frictionalgames.com/2014-01-tech-feature-ssao-and-te...
Comment linking /2014-01-tech-feature-ssao-and-temporal-blur/
on “Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion”Submitted Amnesia is now open source as a story · 902 points
HN discussionSubmitted Planning – The Core Reason Why Gameplay Feels Good as a story · 1 points
HN discussion