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  I’ve never really been been much into the various cross platform build tools like SCons or CMake, I just don’t maintain all that much cross platform code, so all the extra initial effort just hasn’t been worth it.   Well last night I found myself wanting to edit Godot’s source code, so let me […]

  So I decided to take a look at the process of extending the Godot Engine, and to my horror I discovered there is no solution file!  UGH…  Yeah, you can compile from the command line, but that’s not that pleasant of a development experience to an IDE warrior like myself.  I thought I found […]

  Now we are going to talk about two important concepts in AI development in 2D games, path following and navigation meshes.  Path following is exactly what you think it is, you create paths and follow them.  This is useful for creating predefined paths in your game.  When you are looking for a bit more […]

  Welcome to a brand new series on GameFromScratch.com covering the MonoGame open source game framework.  Over the next several chapters we will cover almost every factor of using MonoGame for game development.  First we are going to start with a bit of a history lesson and introduction to MonoGame; we’ll talk about where it […]

  As mentioned recently, I am in the process of compiling the Godot Game Engine Tutorial Series into an e-book format.  Today I just published the 10 chapter, 150 page first draft of the Godot Engine book.   It can currently be downloaded by Patreon backers right here.   It is currently available in the […]

  In this tutorial we are going to look at getting a MonoGame development environment up and running on MacOS, create and run our first MonoGame application and finally take a quick look at the Content Pipeline tool.   For those that prefer video, there is a video version of this tutorial available here or […]

  So as I announced yesterday, I am currently in the process of reworking some existing GameFromScratch tutorials into book formats.  This presents one particular challenge… animated gifs.   While animated gifs are mostly used these days for memes and cat pics, they can also be extremely useful in tutorials.  If you need to demonstrate […]

  Hello All, just a quick state of the union of what’s going on at GameFromScratch.com, what’s in the pipeline for the near future and announcing an exciting (IMHO at least) change in our Patreon campaign.   New Perks for Patreon Backers   GameFromScratch.com somewhat recently launched a Patreon campaign.  Instead of splitting time between […]

  This isn’t actually a topic I intended to cover, I was actually working on demos for a Sound tutorial and needed a simple UI.  I started using UMG to knock up a simple HUD, then realized the UI layer itself probably required a tutorial of it’s own!  So here we are, we are going […]