This two-part article describes the state of virtual reality technology and research at the beginning of 2017. I'm writing it for a tech...

How can a game engine retrofit virtual reality in a near seamless way onto non-VR 3D content? How should a game engine's camera controll...

History and drama fetishize only slight variations of the one possible world that we already know. There are infinite worlds that could be...

Image from The Lawnmower Man of how not to develop in VR if you want to avoid motion sickness. Motion sickness occurs in virtual reali...

This blog post archives all of my video lectures on computational graphics, virtual reality, and film and media studies topics. I will add ...

This is the fourth article in a series documenting my  Game Camp for Grownups  at  Williams College  for introducing humanities faculty to t...

Image by Stephen McPherson Space Cadets: Dice Duel is a team cooperative space ship combat game. Playing it feels like being on the brid...

This is the third article in a series documenting my Game Camp for Grownups  at Williams College for introducing humanities faculty to the...

This is the second article in a series documenting my " Game Camp for Grownups " at Williams College introducing humanities facul...

This is the first in a series of articles describing my 2016 " Game Camp for Grownups " for introducing the medium of video games ...

Annecy is picture-perfect The Annecy International Animated Film Festival  is the oldest and largest regular animation festival. The ...

Coup   is a new indie card game for 2-6 players. It enjoyed a successful Kickstarter and was the darling of PAX 2016. I describe it to ha...

Love Letter  is a simple card game for 2-4 players that takes about five minutes per round. I prefer it with at least three players. It is a...

Safari Match  open source game using codeheart.js I introduced twenty 3rd graders to programming in a special 75-minute session, using ...

Axiom Verge A group of academic colleagues charged me with creating a series of video gaming sessions. Their goal is to understand the m...

[Programmer!] pixel art from my recent game jam projects. The portrait is derived from licensed art by  Oryx This article describes ar...

It is hard to know the accepted English pronunciation of technical terms that you've only read, or are either unfamiliar with the langua...

This article describes my minimal reference code for modern GPU-enabled real-time 3D graphics, which is both a sample program and a self-con...

From  https://github.com/genekogan/FlockingBoids I'm exploring the idea of teaching a new, mid-level course on animation in the Wil...

Carcassonne: South Seas Carcassonne: South Seas  by ZMan games is a tile-placement game for 2-5 players. I find that it takes 20-60 minu...

This article shares some strategy for creating computational graphics research publications, such as those found at SIGGRAPH, I3D, HPG, EG, ...

Pixar's Inside Out , screened at the Cannes and Annecy festivals before US release, is a return to the quality of the studio's g...

Cartagena is a board game for 2-5 players. With the simple McGuire house rules modifications described below, it works well as a strategic...

This article extends my previous article on Implementing Weighted, Blended Order-Independent Transparency . I previously showed how to imple...

Why Transparency? Result from the Weighted, Blended OIT method described in this article. Everything gray in the top inset image ha...

The Bell Labs Transistor The Transistor In 1947, there was one transistor on the planet. It looked like a high school science project...

Why should you learn about game development? How and where should you learn? Most important, what do you need to learn? This article capture...

Classic rendering systems have a virtual "camera" that is active in the scene during rendering. These systems produce the image se...

This post is a draft of new content for The Graphics Codex  app. Please e-mail suggestions and corrections to morgan@casual-effects.com . I...

The minimalist 9 title card At the time of its premiere in 2005, Shane Acker's  9  (11 min, USA. dir: Shane Acker) was one of the t...

Journey There are video games that you'll enjoy and be good at playing. They address your gender, sexual, religious, and ethnic iden...

Uno is a card game for "2 to 10" players that is currently owned by Mattel. Like other games that appeal to small children, the c...

Screen shot of the action role-playing game Titan Quest by Iron Lore Entertainment © (THQ Inc., 2006) This is the first in a series ...

Pretty good reflections computed by our screen space ray tracer in ripply water This post describes a screen space ray tracing implemen...

The Settlers of Catan   is perhaps the most widely-played modern board game , easy to learn, deep enough to be interesting for everyone, ...

Carcassonne   is a family-friendly   Eurogame (modern board game)  that, with appropriate expansions and modifications, scales well from two...

Depiction of the ancient Egyptian game of Senet Board games have been enjoyed for thousands of years. This category includes card and di...

The 2014 Annecy International Film Festival   screened 500 new films in the beautiful resort town of Annecy, France. Since 1960, the best an...

This is a list of good books on computer science. Most are accessible to anyone with programming experience equivalent to an introduction...

Terrain rendering is challenging. It requires both high detail close to the camera and a large extent. There must be less detail per square ...

I'm leaving this up for historical reasons, but I recommend my more recent post on blended order-independent transparency for implement...

Introduction JavaScript (which is defined by the ECMAScript specification) is a just-in-time-compiled, memory-managed (garbage collected...

Little Big Planet 2 Expressive, also known as "non-photorealistic," computer graphics seek conscious stylization over mimesi...

Why JavaScript? I teach the the programming portion of Williams CS107: Creating Games  using codeheart.js , which is a minimal game fra...

Our depth of field effect in the game. Mike Bukowski, Padraic Hennessy, Brian Osman, and Morgan McGuire (that's me) published in GPU...

The essential reference for computer graphics is now available on all platforms through the Graphics Codex Web Edition . Sample Radi...

a group post by  McGuire, Evangelakos, Wilcox, Donow, and Mara (Because of intense interest in this post, we archived it as a technical re...

The G3D Innovation Engine  directly supports easy switching between forward, forward+, and deferred rendering. Most programs, including the ...

For the G3D Innovation Engine , I wanted much richer enumerated type functionality than C++ enum (or even recent extensions) provide, withou...

I'll be releasing Tracewords shortly.  This is a casual word game written with  codeheart.js  that is designed for one-handed (one-thumb...

Top three: 1.  Miss Todd Miss Todd Kristina Yee 2013 A paper-cutout musical, historical fiction (pleasantly heavy on facts), femini...