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  In their ongoing quest to take over the development world, Unreal have announced something really cool…  5 million dollars in grants to Unreal Developers!  Each project can receive between $5,000 and $50,000.  To be eligible you must have a working prototype.   So, what’s the catch?   None.   Really… nothing.     Although […]

  LÖVE, a Lua based game engine I covered wayyyyy back in Battle of the Lua Game Engines and also featured in the game development for kids article, just announced release 0.9.2 just in time for Valentines day.  The announcement follows:   Here are a few big changes and highlights, and the full changelog, as […]

  Nvidia just released version 4.5 of their NSight Visual Studio Edition graphics programming toolkit that I mentioned in the OpenGL resource roundup.   The follow are the major points of this new release: New NVIDIA® Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 4.5 Features: Graphics Debugging and Profiling Expanded OpenGL API support to include the 4.3 core […]

  In this next part in the ongoing LibGDX Video tutorial series, we take our final look at the Scene2D library.  Specifically we look at using Scene2D to provide a UI, including buttons, windows, layout containers and more.  We also look at how to mix “normal” and Scene2D games together.    The video is available […]

  I’ve been doing a long running Phaser with TypeScript tutorial series that illustrates basically everything you need to know to create a complete game using the Phaser HTML5 game engine.  I decided to put together a video tutorial showing how to put it all together to make a complete game.   Now, keep in […]

  In this third part of multiple part video tutorial looking at using Scene2D we look at creating Groups for organizing Actors, as well as hit testing, making it possible to select actors available in your scene.  All of the code is included below.  For an HD version of the video click here.     […]

  I needed to create a sprite sheet for an upcoming tutorial series and managed to throw one together in an amazingly short amount of time with almost no artistic ability.  Good looking art with no ability is something many indie game developers are screaming for, so I figured I would share the process.   […]

  It’s most a maintenance release, so the list of new features is fairly sparse:   New Features Phaser.Loader now supports BLOB urls for audio files (thanks @aressler38 #1462) Line.reflect will calculate the reflected, or outgoing angle of two lines. This can be used for Body vs. Line collision responses and rebounds. Line.normalAngle gets the […]

  In this second part of multiple part video tutorial looking at using Scene2D we look at creating Actors and Actions.  Actors are the entities that compose your game, while Actions are the things that make those Actors do… stuff.  The code for this example is included below the video.  The video on YouTube is […]