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  As you may be able to tell from some of my recent posts I’ve been working more and more often on my iPad when it comes to creating pixel graphics.  When working on my PC or Mac I have my trusty Wacom Intuos tablet, but on iPad its obviously a much different beast.  First […]

  Previous Part Table Of Contents   First off, let’s start of with a big disclaimer!  This is more of an experiment that worked than a tutorial, as I can’t actually recommend you do anything I just did!  Let’s just say, I did a few really hack worthy things to get this particular example to […]

  Welcome to the first ever Steam Powered Game Dev review, a look at game development tools available on Steam.  This post looks at FUSE character creator by Mixamo.  In addition to this text review, you can watch the entire thing in video form by clicking right here, or using the embedded player at the […]

  The title pretty much says it all.  The installation process to get a fully working Java, Android and GWT development environment up and running can be a bit tricky at times.  These three videos walk through the entire process, from downloading and installing a Java JDK, then the Android SDK and GWT then finally […]

  This one falls under the category of “extremely awesome news”, Microsoft just announced Visual Studio Community 2013 and it’s completely free.   You may think to yourself… big deal, there is already Express and it’s free too.  Unlike Express however, Visual Studio 2013 Community is actually the complete version of Visual Studio, nothing has […]

  Up until now, there has been only one book on the market for LibGDX and it’s a bit long in the tooth at this point.  Now there is a new book in town, the Libgdx Cross-Platform Game Development Cookbook and I just finished reading through it.  Let me start by saying, this book wasn’t […]

  If you are a Steam user, you may have noticed that game development related tools have been popping up with increasing frequency.  From 2D and 3D art packages, to script writing utilities and complete game engines, Steam is becoming increasingly  mportant to indie developers.  Not just as a place to sell their games, but as […]

  Amber have just open sourced Copperlicht, a WebGL 3D JavaScript engine.  Copperlich was previously available for 99 Euro per year.   Here is an overview of Copperlicht’s functionality: 3D World editor: CopperLicht comes with a full 3D world editor named CopperCube. Many supported 3D file formats: 3ds, obj, x, lwo, b3d, csm, dae, dmf, oct, […]

  Previous Part Table Of ContentsNext Part   In the previous tutorial we took a look at creating, loading and displaying a tilemap in Phaser and for many simple projects this may be enough.  That said, there are two very common scenarios this doesn’t really address, and we will look at those in this tutorial.  […]

  One of the challenges of working on the iPad only is the lack of animation and composition tools.  There are tons of art applications out there as we saw earlier, but nothing for getting them into game ready form.  So I had a bit of an idea and ran with it.   The basic […]