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In the previous tutorial we look at the process of using sprites in SFML. Today we are going to look instead at using a sprite sheet or texture atlas. The process is very similar to working with a normal sprite, except that you have multiple sprites on a single texture. Loading and swapping textures […]
SFML C++ Tutorial–Spritesheets and Animation Read More
In this Closer Look At we are going to be taking a closer look at the Otter2D game engine. The Closer Look At series is a combination of an introduction, overview and getting started tutorial that is designed to help you quickly decide if a game engine/framework/library is right for you. Otter2D is an […]
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If you are a LibGDX developer or even a Java developer hoping to target iOS some pretty big news just happened. In a nutshell Xamarin acquired RoboVM (more details here). If both of those names are meaningless to you, here’s a quick rundown. Xamarin are ultimately the company formed around Mono, which is […]
So… this thing just happened with RoboVM Read More
In a past life in which I sat in a cubicle and someone actually gave me a pay check every week I was a huge fan of Xamarin products. They do very a good job of enabling .NET developers to leverage their skill across many platforms. In fact, they are the technology that Unity […]
Indie GameDev friendly licensing from Xamarin? Read More
As part of the ongoing Tiled Map Editor tutorial this part looks at using Object Layers, which can be used to interface your tiled map with your games code. This particular example includes the code using TypeScript and the Phaser game library. If you need more information on Phaser I’ve done a tutorial series […]
Tiled Map Editor Tutorial–Object Layer and Code Read More
In the previous tutorials we covered configuration, game loop and finally keyboard handling. Today we are going to move on to the basics of graphics programming in SFML. We are going to start with simple geographic primitives, then in the following tutorial we will move on to sprites. You will notice right away that […]
SFML C++ Tutorial–Basic Graphics Read More
The world of game engines is dominated by the two giants mentioned above, Unity and Unreal. Both have huge bank accounts, huge communities and hundreds of ship titles behind them. They are by no means alone, there are a number of other commercial 3D engines such as Havok’s Vision Engine, Gamebryo, CryEngine, Hero Engine, […]
MaxPlay Game Engine. A Viable Unity or Unreal Competitor? Read More
In our prior tutorial we created a simple application that showed the basics of event handling in SFML. In this tutorial we are going to expand upon that concept a bit further and show how to read the keyboard, both using events and direct polling. Although not strictly SFML related (anymore anyways), we are […]
SFML C++ Tutorial – Handling Keyboard Input and Random Numbers Read More
In this part of the SFML we will look at creating our first basic SFML application. At the heart of every SFML application is the RenderWindow which provides both a way to draw things on screen and receive input events from the user. As always, there is an HD video of this tutorial […]
SFML with C++ Tutorial Series–Windows, Game loops and Timers Read More
So I fire up my iPad and notice this strange new icon: What the heck is this? So I fire it up to discover it’s Adobe Graphic. I dont have any such program installed? So I fire it used and low and behold, it’s iDraw. What’s iDraw? Its an extremely affordable and easy to use alternative […]
Why Does Adobe Keep Buying Everything I Like Read More
