Author
Hugo Marchal
Game engine dismantler
Hugo believes there is no better way to understand a game than rebuilding its engine by hand, ideally while sacrificing a weekend. He writes his own tools because he never found anyone else's weird enough. His sweaters are on sale; his projects never are.
Stories
- To design the 100-year storm, the model never saw one
- A 130 € workbench: the IKEA module as a constrained build platform
- Getting a shuttlecock into an industrial arm took more patience than robotics
- The IKEA × Xbox stool tilts like a thumbstick — your legs do the recentering
- Holly Thomas didn't draw her diary. She cut it into fragments
- The browser can load a module. It still can't install a package
- Q-CTRL navigates without GPS. Not without a gravity map
- 49 interfaces show when AI stopped only answering and started acting
- This house gains a courtyard by deleting its living room
- Neramit's 900 m² roof starts with a six-metre constraint
- Corrosion simulation belongs between tests, not instead of them
- To archive twenty years of clubbing, photograph the people who are not on stage
- AI makes GitHub contributions cheap. The credit still stays visible
- Lassie separates a robot's skeleton from its social skin
- Mies's pavilion loses more than 857 litres of water a day
- A titanium-lattice tibia, filled with real bone
- This 'tool-free' rail process ends with milling. The mold is what disappears
- At six blocks a minute, earth is no longer the bottleneck
- 50,000 rotis an hour already exist. So why a vending machine?
- Twenty-seven copper pads, no touch chip
- A domino clock with no moving parts
- The first digital hospital started by removing paper journeys
- The qubit gets smaller when its electric field stops spilling out
- A component has no true 0°. The whole chain just needs to choose the same one
- The phone is paper, the payphone sticks out of the painting
- 19.8 Liters on a Screen in Uzbek
- Gaia Alari draws 650 frames by hand because overly clean motion loses something
- This virtual body can be dissected because its physics are deliberately fake
- K-Net puts local-loop control where the repairs happen
- To cast 60 tonnes of metal, the VX9000 prints the empty space around it first
- The 48 apartments are occupied. CO-HATY's real test starts after the keys
- When the BIOS becomes SSH output
- The drone was not recharged in flight. The real result is what 38.49% leaves out
- A robot can look less futuristic when you photograph it like a machine
- This Blender fork would rather ship 534 MB than need the internet
- This lamp grows around its own skeleton
- Paper is the fragile part of these lamps. Maison Cédrat made it replaceable
- The Sennheiser MTW5's three batteries swap out with a screwdriver
- This box modernizes a bench supply without opening it
- Takuto Ohta didn't design 50 pieces of furniture. He tested 200 logs
- WebAssembly has GC. It still needs JavaScript for console.log
- He wanted a Gaussian Splat 1,000× faster. Four weeks later, he had an iPhone app
- Palestine Online: bringing the 1990s Palestinian web back to life
- Six hazards, six vibration patterns: this patch speaks straight to your skin
- Nakagin was meant to replace its capsules every 25 years. None were replaced
- Jazz Grant picked five V&A objects. Her collage became a Hackney mural
- This 256-bit key is pronounceable. So is a wrong one.
- Brompton’s identity came from the factory. Not all of it.
- One bit was enough to start a pump
- PicoCamera can see 1600×1200. Its RAM sees rather less
- This house only floats when the river forces it to
- A pine cone mechanism ends up as 3D-printing code
- This wrist sequencer turns lack of space into a musical choice
- What 3D printing actually changes in a cryogenic rocket engine
- Repairing a Nikon F100 also means repairing the documentation around it
- A train becomes the second axis of this line-scan camera
- What if your judgment could outlive you? The hard part is the tacit
- This printer already had the sensor needed to calibrate its extrusion
- On embedded Linux, logs are memory you have to design before failure
- This alphabet prints the festival while it is still happening
- This game engine only has to fit one game
- Brussels rebuilds The Great Wave with more than 700,000 flowers
- Parametric furniture has to learn the weaver’s language
- In Kolkata, Kwazi photographs the signs before designing anything
- Nine resonators let recycled PLA colour the sound
- Musical rules steer Lyria without fine-tuning the model
- Can a climbing guide outlive the app that displays it?
- An agent plays the lazy senior, then its benchmark gets publicly rebuilt
- A rhythm-game guitar becomes a controller you can print, repair and modify
- This game agent checks the screen after the code compiles
- Ten ways to fold a round world from open data
- A coding tutor deliberately puts friction back into vibe coding
- Tom Stanton pushed a trebuchet through the sound barrier one iteration at a time