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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 […]
LÖVE Lua game engine release version 0.9.2 Read More
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 […]
NVidia NSIght Visual Studio Edition 4.5 released Read More
This tutorial is available as an HD video here. Today we are going to look at using audio with Godot. If you’ve used other game engines you will find the process is probably quite a bit different and perhaps a little unintuitive but in the end rather simple and quite power. It is a […]
Godot Engine Tutorial Part 4 – Playing Sound FX and Music Read More
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 […]
LibGDX Video Tutorial: Scene2D UI, Widgets, Layout and Skins Read More
Today I ran into something extremely annoying while typing some JSON for a LibGDX tutorial. LibGDX uses a naming convention that IntelliJ doesn’t like… here, I’ll show you what I mean. Suffice to say… it’s pretty annoying. What’s even more annoying is there is simply no way to turn this behavior off. […]
Preventing IntelliJ code auto formatting from ruining your day Read More
This tutorial is available in video form here or embedded below. Now might be a good time to pause and look at the life cycle of a typical program, as this can be a bit confusing with Godot yet is something you really need to understand. Every non-trivial game has a game loop […]
Godot Engine Tutorial Part 3 — Program Lifecycle and Input Handling Read More
In this tutorial we are going to be taking a look at what seems to be everyone’s favorite subject, graphics. We are going to start by creating a Sprite. A Sprite is basically a 2D image with spatial information such as scale, rotation and position. We are then going to take a closer look […]
Godot Engine Tutorial Part 2– 2D Scenes, Sprites, Coordinates and Viewports Read More
Welcome to the first coding tutorial of the GameFromScratch.com Godot tutorial series. We are going to take a quick look at the Godot IDE then jump in and create our first application. I want to say right up front, I am no Godot expert, so if I may a mistake or you spot something […]
Godot Engine Tutorial– Part 1: Your First Godot Application Read More
Welcome to the Godot Tutorial Series Welcome to the GameFromScratch.com Godot tutorial series. The Godot Engine is an open source, C++ based game engine for making 2D and 3D games for most mobile and desktop platforms. The editor can be run on Windows, Mac and Linux. This series will hopefully cover all aspects of Godot […]
Godot Game Engine Tutorial Series Read More
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. […]
LibGDX Video Tutorial: Scene2D Grouping and Hit tests Read More