https://playingtux.com/en/tags/game-engine/ Recent content in Game Engine on PlayingTux Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:31:04 +0200 https://playingtux.com/en/articles/2026/06/commander-keen-white-papers-released/ Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:31:04 +0200 https://playingtux.com/en/articles/2026/06/commander-keen-white-papers-released/ <p><strong>Bas Smits</strong> spent over three years writing <strong>&ldquo;Game Engine White Papers: Commander Keen&rdquo;</strong> - a <strong>214-page, full-color book</strong> about how games were made in the late 1980s and early 1990s, more than 35 years after the original. Available as a <a class="link" href="https://forgottenbytes.net/commander_keen.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >free PDF</a> or as a printed book on Amazon.</p> <p>The book covers hardware (80286, EGA video cards, sound cards, keyboards), <strong>game assets</strong>, the <strong>engine architecture</strong>, and how the <strong>CGA version</strong> of the game was created. Source code for the book project is on <a class="link" href="https://github.com/bsmits74/Keen_White_Papers" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >GitHub</a>.</p>