Comments on: DICE Publications Page (and Other Game Companies’)

By: Naty

Naty — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:57:45 +0000

If we are also listing film companies, then of course there is the Pixar papers page: http://graphics.pixar.com/library/. Great stuff on there!

By: Mauricio

Mauricio — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:46:24 +0000

Not a game company, but may be helpful:

Walt Disney Animation Studios
http://www.disneyanimation.com/technology

By: kas

kas — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:48:53 +0000

http://www2.disney.co.uk/disneyinteractivestudios/blackrockstudio/technology/

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:31:23 +0000

Thanks, François, I clicked that link but didn’t realize what I was seeing; added.

By: Reg

Reg — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:06:22 +0000

Dozens of interesting publications can also be found on Nvidia and AMD websites:
http://developer.nvidia.com/page/documentation.html
http://developer.amd.com/DOCUMENTATION/Pages/default.aspx

By: François Bertel

François Bertel — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:56:55 +0000

Hi Eric,

in http://www.realtimerendering.com/portal.html you reported Sony Computer Entertainment US but you forgot Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (scee) reported by Branimir Karadžić in the first comment.

On SCEE site, there is a really nice talk “Pitfalls of Object Oriented Programming” explaining how to think “Data Oriented Design” instead of “Object-Oriented Design”. Slide 18 makes the remark that with current HW the RAM latency is the bottleneck (80′s RAM latency~1 cycle, 2009 RAM latency:~400cycles) . It then gives examples of strategies to deal with this latency: reorganizing member variables in an homogeneous manner to avoid cache miss. Slide 21 illustrates the situation with a scene graph. On slide 22, the author shows the counter-intuitive case where the dirty flag/cache result can be a bad good-idea.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:14:22 +0000

I’ve added this info as item #5 on the portal page, http://www.realtimerendering.com/portal.html

By: François Bertel

François Bertel — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:04:47 +0000

Not technically a game company but still in the game industry: Sony Computer Entertainment US
http://www.research.scea.com/

If you click on “Research” at the top, you end up here: http://www.research.scea.com/research/research.html

Even if the most recent publication is from 2006, they have interesting contents like “PS3 Deferred Shading” http://research.scea.com/ps3_deferred_shading.pdf or “Spherical Harmonic Lighting: The Gritty Details” http://www.research.scea.com/gdc2003/spherical-harmonic-lighting.html

By: Drealmer

Drealmer — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:35:28 +0000

What about the conference presentations from Unity3D? http://unity3d.com/support/resources/unite-presentations/

By: repi

repi — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:02:39 +0000

Thanks for informing people Naty!

Tri-Ace R&D has a publications site as well located here with a mix of slides in English and Japanese:
http://research.tri-ace.com/
Thanks to @oteguro for pointing that out, some good presentations!