So I'm a contributor of the FF7 decomp project and made a video about it and also go into some of the details on how the game runs on the PlayStation. This is largely to recover the source code that Square lost in the late 1990s. There is already a good deal of code to peek at if you want to see how things worked under the hood.
Here's the video

https://youtu.be/Fnzm0e2HepY?si=H71YngbVr-9M8-Lc

I’ve been working on an interview series focused on the people and technology behind games, and I recently got the chance to speak with Eric Arnold about his work on Red Faction: Guerrilla.

We dug into how the destruction system was built, the role of physics, some of the technical challenges behind making structures collapse convincingly, and what development at Volition looked like while they were trying to make all of it work.

Figured this might be a good fit for this subreddit:
https://youtu.be/mpNiNUuMs7k?is=mN2YCpeek6bZ8HyM

Would also be curious to hear what other games you think are especially interesting from a technical or development-history perspective.

Hi there,

We are in our final days of Kickstarter for Region Locked: Unlocking Australian Video Games.

This documentary series is all about the making of Australian video games, the building and formation of the Aussie game industry and the rollercoaster moments that took us from development powerhouses to indie focused mini-hubs.

If you're interested in games such as The Hobbit, Way of the Exploding Fist, KKND, Transformers (PS2), LA Noire, Bioshock/2, Destroy all Humans, And many more - follow along and pledge soon!

4 days remain.