One of the challenges of working on the iPad only is the lack of animation and composition tools.  There are tons of art applications out there as we saw earlier, but nothing for getting them into game ready form.  So I had a bit of an idea and ran with it.   The basic […]

  Previous Part Table Of ContentsNext Part   In the previous tutorial we took a look at creating, loading and displaying a tilemap in Phaser and for many simple projects this may be enough.  That said, there are two very common scenarios this doesn’t really address, and we will look at those in this tutorial.  […]

  I will admit, I am somewhat late to this party… I’ve shared a project or two to Github in the past, but I’ve never really embraced it.  It’s one of those things I should probably change and I will start to address.    So here we are starting with the code samples for the […]

  Now that we know how to create vector graphics on iPad, let’s take a look at the process of getting them into and using them in Codea.  This part is insanely easy, in fact if this was all there was to it, I could cover this entire process in a single Tweet!  Let’s do […]

  As part of the ongoing Guide to Creating a Game Entirely on an iPad series, we recently looked at a number of 2D raster and vector graphics programs available on iOS.  One of the programs that really stood out was iDraw, a vector drawing program.  I’ve actually used iDraw for a while now, going […]

  Previous Part Table Of ContentsNext Part   In this tutorial we are going to look at loading and using Tiled TMX maps.  Tiled is a free, open sourced map editor, and TMX is the file format it outputs.  You basically use it to “paint” levels using one or more spritesheets containing tiles, which you […]

  A question came up in a comment in the Scene2D part of the LibGDX tutorial series about re-using actions.  You very much can re-use actions, so I decided to do it in post form here.  This entire post is mostly just one large code sample.  It’s just easier to do it here than in […]

  As I mentioned earlier in the introduction to Codea, it does not support Spritesheets out of the box. I also mentioned earlier that it was a fairly simple thing to add. In this tutorial I am going to show how I created a class in Codea for enabling sprite sheets, which can also serve […]