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This tutorial is going to cover creating transition effects between your GameEngine2D scenes. It is actually going to be rather short and mostly code, as the subject is actually quite simple and consistent between different effects. All right, lets just right in. First of all, when need our main application. This is going […]
PlayStation Mobile Tutorial: Creating scene transitions Read More
In this tutorial we are going to look at the various Gesture detectors built into the UI layer of the PlayStation Mobile SDK. They all work fairly consistently, so this tutorial is going to be pretty light in explanation. There are 6 gesture detectors built in to the PS SDK; FlickGestureDetector, DragGestureDetector, TapGestureDetector, […]
PlayStation Mobile Tutorial: Pinching, Tapping, Dragging and Flicking… Read More
You often hear people say things like “It’s memory management that makes C++ difficult”, this is patently false. What makes C++ so incredibly difficult for new users ( and experienced ones! ) is the complexity. Note, I didn’t say difficulty, I said complexity. Today was one of those perfect examples, one of […]
This is why I say C++ isn’t a beginner friendly language Read More
I logged in to my Safari account this morning as part of my daily ritual to check which new books have been added and I discover they’ve added Beginning iOS 3D Unreal Games Development. So what’s so special about this book? Well, there are a couple of things… First off, although there are a […]
Beginning iOS 3D Unreal Games Development added to safari Read More
The LUA based Corona SDK is one of those things I have really been intending to check out for a very long time now. One of the biggest reasons I haven’t looked closer ( other than time ) was the complete lack of published materials. Today however, I logged in to Safari and […]
Corona SDK Mobile Game Development added to Safari Read More
Adobe has recently made Photoshop CS 6 available as beta, which will last until CS6 is released. In order to activate, you need to have an Adobe ID ( freely available ) within 7 days of installing. The Mac installer is now 64bit only and weighs in at just under 1GB, while the […]
Photoshop CS6 now available in free beta Read More
With the recent (limited time) release of Unity Android and iOS for free, there is bound to be an increase in interest. One starting point is books, of which there are now a few dozen available. This post puts together as much information on a single page as possible to make your selection process as […]
Epic has released a new version of their UDK. Updated features include: Upgraded to Scaleform 4 Vastly improved rendering integration with multithreaded renderer Added Action Script 3 support. Action Script 2 is still supported. Includes CLIK 3.0 (Lightweight Interface Kit) Major improvements to the AMP profiler Updated UDN documentation Unreal […]
New version of Unreal Developer Kit (UDK ) released today Read More
Ok, I admit outright, this part was a long time in releasing and I apologize for that. A big part of the reason for the delay is in my first few drafts I attempted to teach the mathematics behind this chapter, which I initially believe would be a minor task., I was […]
Game From Scratch C++ Edition Part 7 Read More
In this chapter we really get a move on, literally. Bad puns aside, we are going to add keyboard controls to our PlayerPaddle, as well as create the game ball class. In order to add input to our PlayerPaddle ( and other game objects ) we need to make some changes to our […]
Game From Scratch C++ Edition Part 6 Read More