If you read my recent laptop buyers guide for game developers you may have noticed that the “winner” was the P34 V4 by Gigabyte.  In this case I put my money where my mouth is and purchased one.  After spending the last couple days using it I figured I would create a bit of […]

  This is a feature that was quietly added in Blender 2.72 that will be a massive game changer to many potential Blender users.  The Blender UI has always been very keyboard focused and quite daunting especially for beginners.  Over the last couple releases we’ve seen some nice tweaks to the UI to make Blender […]

  If you’re using a high resolution monitor such as the newer 4K display or Apple’s “Retina” display, you’ve certainly encountered your fair share of applications that are borderline unusable.  At first glance Blender appears to be just such an application.  This is what it looks like on a 2560×1440 display, I can only imagine […]

  As a developer I switched to laptops ages ago.  In fact I haven’t purchased a traditional PC in close to a decade and probably never will.  That said, using a laptop as your primary development machine certainly has it’s share of drawbacks including reduced capabilities, higher prices tags and more.  The process of choosing […]

  In this tutorial we are going to look at playing back music in our SFML game.  We will look at streaming an ogg file from disk.  We will also quickly look at the basics of handling time in SFML as we add fast forward and rewind abilities to our music playback.   There is […]

  Although I’ve done a couple previous tutorials covering texturing in Blender, including this text one and this video one, I’ve never really shown the entire process.   This video simply illustrates a quick UV Unwrap/Texture job in Blender.   The high def video is available here. Art Blender 3D

  In today’s Closer Look we are looking at the open source C# based 2D game engine Duality.  The Closer Look series is a combination of review and getting started tutorial that is aimed at helping a developer decide if a game engine is the right choice for them.   There is also an HD […]

  So I find myself needing to create a new website and this created a world of complications with one very easy solution, which I’m assuming you can guess from the title above…   I started GameFromScratch.com some 5ish years ago and the state of the web has changed a great deal since then.  I […]