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Sorry… absolutely can’t resist that pun, no matter how obvious it is. Anyways… the Godot Game Engine has been on my radar since they announced they were going open source at the beginning of the year. Today they finally announced their 1.0 release today. Never heard of Godot? It’s a Unity-esque game […]
No More waiting for Godot! Godot Engine reaches 1.0 milestone release Read More
This video tutorial covers handling gestures in LibGDX, this includes: pinch zoom tap pan long press You can view the video in full resolution on Youtube here. The source is included below. Source from this tutorial example: package com.gamefromscratch; import com.badlogic.gdx.ApplicationAdapter; import com.badlogic.gdx.Gdx; import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.GL20; import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.OrthographicCamera; import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.Texture; import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.Sprite; import […]
LibGDX Video Tutorial: Gestures–Panning, Zooming, Pinch, Tapping and more Read More
So I recently did a complete nuke of my primary daily use Android phone, it’s just one of those things you have to do over time as it gets slower, hotter and your battery life gets worse. However, the next time I went to debug on Android, ADB couldn’t find it. This is […]
Why can’t I debug on my Android phone anymore? I think it’s dead Jim Read More
Modo, a popular 3D modeling application ( learn more about Modo and more in my Introduction to 3D Applications post, or watch the video ) has just been released on Steam. Actually, Steam being Steam, it’s actually on sale right now for 25% off! Considering the full price of Modo is […]
Modo Indie released and is available on Steam… on sale of course Read More
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part In the previous tutorial we looked at handling mouse and keyboard events, both event driven and polled. Now we will look at how touch works. To follow along at this point you need to have a touch enabled device ( multi-touch with a mouse is tricky to […]
LibGDX Tutorial 5: Handling Input–Touch and gestures Read More
In this video tutorial we look at using the different types of Cameras available, using a Camera to position your world in a device independent way. Next we discuss the various Viewport options available for making your render results look best across a number of devices. Since this video was released at the same […]
Previous Part Table Of Contents In the previous tutorial we looked at how to use a camera with LibGDX to abstract away resolution differences so you are no longer using pixel coordinates. This however doesn’t really help you all that much if your aspect ratios are massively different. Fortunately LibGDX implements the […]
LibGDX Tutorial Part 17: Viewports Read More
Previous Part Table Of ContentsNext Part In this tutorial we are going to look at how to use Cameras ( and in the next, Viewports ) in LibGDX. I will admit, I am a bit late in covering this topic, as I should have covered it much earlier in the series. In fact, […]
LibGDX Tutorial Part 16: Cameras Read More
Previous Part Table Of ContentsNext Part Now we are going to look at using particles in LibGDX. This is a somewhat complex subject, so I am going to break it over a couple posts. In this first example, we are going to create a 2D particle system in the editor. Then we are […]
LibGDX Tutorial Part 15: Particles Part One–2D Particles Read More
The Phaser HTML5 game development library has been churning out the releases as of late, and just yesterday 2.2.1 was released. Perhaps most impressively, much of the releases content came from members within the community, always a good sign with open source projects. The biggest new feature is the Scale Manager, which you […]
Phaser 2.2.0 ( then 2.2.1 ) JavaScript Game Dev library released Read More