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  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 […]

  Unreal just released version 4.8 of their popular Unreal Engine.  This is some very good timing as my recently released Tilemap tutorial depended on some key new features in the 4.8 preview release.   The timing of this announcement seems somewhat…  shocking, given that Unreal 5.1 was just released.  That said, this tit for […]

  Unity 5.1 was released today.   Unity 5.1 new features are:   UNITY 5.1 Unity 5.1 features a highly-optimized rendering pipeline for VR and AR devices to help you achieve exceptional frame rates, as well as new networking APIs, and our Multiplayer Service with Matchmaker and Relay servers (in preview) for easy multiplatform networked games. […]

  For my most recent tutorial, I am using a feature that is currently under active development.  This means I have to use a developer preview release and I figured I would share a quick post on how to install preview releases.  Of course the standard disclaimer applies…  you should never use preview releases for […]

  Mixamo, the creator of the online self serve animation service of the same name, as well as Mixamo Fuse character creation software, were just acquired by Adobe.   I just received the following email: Dear Mike, We are proud to announce that as of today, our company has been acquired by Adobe. Incorporating Mixamo […]

  Up until this point we’ve covered a ton of the items that go into making a game, but nothing resembling a game… the pieces simply didn’t fit together.  In this tutorial we are going to change that and start bringing everything we learned together.  We are going to be covering a lot today, so […]

  So today I fired up Steam to finally pull the trigger on Pillars of Eternity and what do I see….   It seems that Degica games, the makers of the popular RPG Maker series of game building tools are having a sale today.  Their flagship product RPG Maker VX Ace ( … quite the […]

  I will admit, the end results look a heck of a lot like the starting point, but behind the scenes it was pretty much a complete rewrite of all the underlying CSS and a good chunk of HTML changes.  Sorry for the delay in new tutorials, but the end is finally here.  I ended […]