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Steamworks Development says Valve is tightening pre-release review with new checklist items aimed at first-pass approvals and fewer re-reviews. Developers now need recent Steam playtime, redistributable declarations, achievement checks, and …
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[Web] TSI War & Peace - A free-to-play tactical card game inspired by War and D&D (looking for play testers)
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[Android] Lumen Vault — 20 free puzzles, looking for first-play feedback
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[Browser] Knightfall Idle - free medieval idle RPG with a shared world and a player run economy
Frequency-Adaptive Gaussian Grids for Efficient Image Representation
arXiv cs.GR details Gaussian-Grid, a hybrid image representation that mixes 2D Gaussians with multi-resolution feature grids. For graphics programmers, the …
Altered Visual Hand Feedback in Virtual Reality: An Exploratory Study in Essential Tremor
arXiv cs.GR details a VR study suggesting altered hand visuals can dampen tremor-band motion without breaking task completion. In eight …
SemEllipsoid: Semantic-aware Shape Abstraction with Ellipsoid
arXiv cs.GR details SemEllipsoid, a non-learning method that fits ellipsoids to 3D shapes while keeping each primitive inside a single …
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