My name is Dominic Szablewski. I build games, experiment with JavaScript and occasionally tinker with low-level C.

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Synthesizing Music from JSON

A tiny sound & music synth and tracker for C & JS

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A Simple Archive Format for Self-Contained Executables

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Porting my JavaScript Game Engine to C for No Reason

A small and simple game engine for 2D games, completely written in C

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Rewriting wipEout

A (nearly) complete rewrite of the classic 1995 PSX game wipEout

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QOA Benchmark Results and File Format Specification

The final specification for the Quite OK Audio format defines the exact format for this very simple lossy audio compression format.

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Time Domain Audio Compression at 3.2 bits per Sample

QOA is a fast and simple audio compression format with a reference implementation in 400 lines of C.

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The QOI File Format Specification

The final specification for the Quite OK Image format defines the exact format for this very simple lossless image compression format.

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Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time

QOI, the Quite OK Image format, offers 20x-50x faster image compression compared to PNG and fits in 300 lines of C

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Q1K3 – Making Of

A "Tour de Force" of cramming the essence of Quake into 13kb of JavaScript

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Voidcall – Making Of

The amazing challenges of implementing a real-time strategy game in 13kb of JavaScript

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MPEG1 Single file C library

The what, why and how of an MPEG1 decoder in a single file C library

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Rewriting Pagenode

The CMS I began writing 14 years ago, now released as a library

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Underrun – Making Of

How I compressed a twin-stick WebGL shooter game into 13kb of JavaScript

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Impact Is Now Free & Open Source

My HTML5 Game Engine Impact is now available for free.

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Decode It Like It's 1999

Behind the scenes of my MPEG1/MP2 decoder, written in JavaScript.

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Quake for Oculus Rift

The founding father of First Person Shooters updated for VR.

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The Absolute Worst Way To Read Typed Array Data with JavaScriptCore

My journey to read some data from JavaScript Typed Arrays in a fast way.

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Quake for Oculus DK2, Direct Mode

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Play GTA V In Your Browser – Sort Of

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What makes an On-Screen Keyboard Fun?

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Reverse Engineering WipEout (PSX)

A Model Viewer for the original WipEout for PSX. A detailed journey into the 20 year old data formats of the game.

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Xibalba & WebVR

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XType Plus – an HTML5 Game for the Nintendo Wii U

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Xibalba – A WebGL First Person Shooter

The screencast/making-of of a simple 3D game for WebGL.

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Fast Image Filters with WebGL

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A Tale of Bad UX

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HTML5 Live Video Streaming via WebSockets

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Quake for Oculus Rift

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MPEG1 Video Decoder in JavaScript

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Ejecta

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Drawing Pixels is Hard

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Where the Innovation Stops

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Letter to John Carmack

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What the Fucking Fuck, Apple?

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X-Type – Making Of

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Measuring Input Lag in Browsers

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What the requestAnimationFrame API Should Have Looked Like

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JavaScript on the XBox 360

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Hate IE with a Passion

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JavaScriptCore Project Files for iOS

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iOS and JavaScript - for Real this Time!

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Multiple Channels for HTML5 Audio

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The State of HTML5 Audio

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Game On Spotlight: Z-Type

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Impact Sales Report

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Z-Type

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hqx Scaling in JavaScript

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Brace for Impact!

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I Have a Problem

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Impact for iOS

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Biolab Disaster

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Syntax Highlighting in 1023 bytes of JavaScript

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“Load More” is not the Answer

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Songfever

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9 Years of Sleep

Weird sleep cycles produce pretty graphs.

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Flash Animation Without Flash

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Google Chrome Frame is Here to Save Us All!

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Colemak

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UVC Camera Control for Mac OS X

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Yuckfu Dev Diary #12 – Let's Try That Again

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Yuckfu Dev Diary #11 – Buy, Buy, Buy!

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Yuckfu Dev Diary #10 – It’s Beta Time!

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Yuckfu Dev Diary #9 – HUD and Tutorial Mode

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Redesign – Yes, Again

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My New Portfolio

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Klangpong

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Instant Avatars

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Picturelicious, Paypal and Getting Rich

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Your Favorite Movie in a Single Picture

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Yuckfu Dev Diary #8 – Details, Details, Details and a Gameplay Video

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Yuckfu Dev Diary #7 – All New Graphics

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Is Google’s Chrome Upside Down?

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Yuckfu Dev Diary #6 – Flat Shading or Textures?

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Yuckfu Dev Diary #5 – OpenGL, Fonts and You

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Yuckfu Dev Diary #4 – Gameplay

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Yuckfu Dev Diary #3 – Loading and Displaying 3D Models

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Yuckfu Dev Diary #2 – Visual Concept

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Yuckfu Dev Diary #1

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iPhone Code Signing Sucks

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New Server, New Layout

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The Importance of Special Effects

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QuickSearch.js – Shortwave for the Paranoid

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Fixing Favatars

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Comment Spam 2.0

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How I hacked Digg

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The Fountain in a Single Picture

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Euro Pimp!

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What’s Wrong with Clean-URLs?

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Asaph 1.0

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Asaph Beta 2

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Asaph Microblog – Beta

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How Not to Build a Page with Drupal

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All Hail the New PhobosLab

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Ron Paul vs. Barack Obama?

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Flash Music Visualization Engine

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What I Learned About Flash and ActionScript 3

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Image Clouds

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IE Textarea 100% Width Bug

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Whiteout – Minimalistic Skin for VLC Movie Player

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Automatic Escaping of SQL Parameters

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Generic Syntax Highlighting with Regular Expressions

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Hello World!

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