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RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 Was Built Entirely in Assembly

Chris Sawyer wrote RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 solo in x86 assembly. Here’s why that was a deliberate, defensible choice, and what it says about building tools that work for you.

• By Oliver Karlsson

LEGO Island 2's Under-the-Hood Crazyness

A look at the bizarre technical decisions behind LEGO Island 2: duplicated assets, hardcoded data, and a ‘UV map from hell’ that bloated the game’s size and slowed it down.

• By Oliver Karlsson