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  Back in this post I discussed ways of making dynamically equipped 2D sprites.  One way was to render out a 3D object to 2D textures dynamically.  So far we have looked at working in 3D in LibGDX, then exporting and rendering an animated model from Blender, the next step would be a dynamic 3D […]

  OK, right up front I’ll admit I was a bit asleep at the wheel on this bit of news, as it actually happened last week…   Anyways, Havok have released the 2D Toolkit for ProjectAnarchy.  Project Anarchy is a bundling of Havok game development tools for making mobile games, all completely free ( as […]

  It was announced in March of last year that Unity would support all of Sony’s platforms, including the PlayStation Vita.  Today that is finally a reality.  The following was announced on the Unity blog:   Back in March 2013, we announced a partnership with Sony based on support for every single one of SCE’s […]

As I mentioned yesterday when talking about how to generate character sprites supporting dynamic inventory, the very first step would be to actually figure out how to do 3D in LibGDX.   Well, I did, and thankfully it’s pretty simple.  This isn’t a tutorial by any stretch of the means, but what follows is basically […]

I love seeing new game engines pop up, and this one just arrived on reddit.  It’s called Duality and it sounds kinda cool.   In the authors own words ( pretty much verbatim from reddit ):   What is Duality? It’s a 2D game engine that comes with a visual editor. Both engine and editor are Open Source (MIT license). […]

  EDIT: You can download the precompiled binaries here.  The Mac binaries are in fbx-conv.zip.  The reason for the failed build is LibGDX used a previous build of Autodesk’s library.   If you want to convert 3D models to LibGDX’s native file format G3DB you need to use fbx-conv.  The general instructions for the entire […]

Want to create an on-screen controller for your mobile game?  That means providing all the graphics that make up the controller, meaning drawing a gamepad, buttons, etc.  Fortunately user KenNL has released just such a package over on Reddit.   The quality is quite good, as you can see:   The package contains 50 different controls […]

  So a new year is upon us; happy belated New Year everyone!   I figure now is as good of a time as any to get off my arse and work on something I have long been delaying… a complete game.  If you go wayyyyyy back in the annals of GameFromScratch.com history, you will […]

  What exactly is Code Combat?  Well it’s a game that attempts to teach programming by having the player use programming to control the player.  Here I am running through the tutorial portion:     It’s most of what you expect in programming, cleverly disguised as a game.  In this particular case, you double click […]