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Near the end of last week I announced the GameFromScratch game project and announced I was most likely going to use HTML5 as the development language of choice, while LibGDX and HaXe + NME were my runner up technologies.   The end result of the process is going to (hopefully!) be a published game on iOS […]

The project is currently up on Github.             I will let them describe it in their own words: PlayScript is an open source Adobe ActionScript compatible compiler and Flash compatible runtime that runs in the Mono .NET environment, targeting mobile devices through the Xamarin Studio MonoTouch and Mono for Android […]

Now that my book is published it’s time to move on to my next project.  Given the original purpose of this site, with a two year distraction, I think it’s high time that I get around to actually creating and publishing a game!  I intend to share as much of the development process, code, assets, etc… […]

Well, this certainly wasn’t expected, and I double checked the calendar, it’s no longer April 1st…   Introducing Corona SDK Starter Okay, so here’s where it gets really exciting. From very early on, we have focused on democratizing app development. We felt (and still do) that anyone could create the next great app with Corona. […]

I hear over and over again in programmer forums, mostly beginner forums, that C++ is hard because you have to manually manage memory!  This is not only wrong, it’s dangerous.  Whenever you see this comment, be wary about following this persons advice in the future. Why?  Simply put, because if you are manually managing memory […]

  As of this morning, my book is now available on Safari Books Online.     I find this personally very exciting, as I am an avid Safari subscriber, as you may have noticed from the Safari links in all my prior book related posts!   If you’ve never heard of Safari, it’s an online […]

  You are going to hear nothing but the sound of crickets on GameFromScratch tomorrow.  April 1st is the one day of the year I turn off the internet. Each year, April fools jokes get worse and worse and worse.  People have said that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit… no doubt, those people […]

  In this section we will look at the various operations you perform when modelling in 3D.  Much like when working with clay in the real world, you can actually make some remarkably detailed work with only a small number of tools.   There is one concept we haven’t really touched on as of yet, […]

This is simply a quick reference to all of the modelling commands in a single place.   KeyAction A Select/Deselect All X Delete selected T Hide/Show Tools panel N Hide Show properties panel Select and Navigation A Select/Deselect All B + LMB + Drag Box/Border select C + LMB + Drag Circle select CTRL + […]