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This tutorial covers the process of creating and using a spritesheet. A spritesheet is a collection of individual sprites grouped together into a single image. I created the spritesheet for this tutorial using TexturePacker. I already documented the process in this tutorial, the only difference is you set the Data Format to Cocos2D instead […]
Cocos2D HTML Tutorial 6: Spritesheets Read More
Another week another Unity patch. This one is almost entirely fixes unless of course you find Windows store IL2CPP backend changes or updates to the installer EULA as exciting new fixes. Not mocking of course, new fixes are always welcome. Well unless of course they break more than they fix I suppose. Here are […]
Unity Release Patch 5.3.4p3 Read More
This tutorial series covers all aspects of creating a 2D game using Unreal Engine. It is my intention to eventually create an identical series covering Unity, so people can directly compare the workflow of both game engines. This series is in both text and video form. All coding is done using Blueprints although I […]
Unreal Engine 2D Game Development Tutorial Series Read More
As part of GameFromScratch’s ongoing A Closer look at game engine series, today we are going to be taking a look at LibGDX, a Java based cross platform game engine(sorta). The “Closer Look” series is intended to be a cross between a tutorial, review and overview of a game engine, aimed at helping those […]
A Closer Look At LibGDX Read More
Urho3D an open source cross platform C++ based engine I covered in detail here, just released version 1.4. The following are the changes: Changelog Direct3D11 and OpenGL 3 rendering. Shader Model 2 support removed. Experimental Emscripten support. Raspberry-Pi 2 support. Overhauled build system with better out-of-source build support & source tree reorganization. Add […]
Urho3D game engine release version 1.4 Read More
Title kinda says it all. Version 1.6 of the popular, cross platform Java based game library LibGDX was just released. The changelog from the release: [1.6.0] – API Change: GlyphLayout xAdvances now have an additional entry at the beginning. This was required to implement tighter text bounds. #3034 – API Change: Label#getTextBounds changed to […]
LibGDX version 1.6 released Read More
I needed to create a sprite sheet for an upcoming tutorial series and managed to throw one together in an amazingly short amount of time with almost no artistic ability. Good looking art with no ability is something many indie game developers are screaming for, so I figured I would share the process. […]
Creating a walk cycle spritesheet in under 15 minutes Read More
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 […]
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part Back in Tutorial 3 I created a simple animation using a Timer and setting the frame manually from a TextureAtlas. This is not the ideal way to perform animation using LibGDX and was done to illustrate how to use a TextureAtlas, not how to perform animation. Instead […]
LibGDX Tutorial 3B: Simple Animation Read More
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part One of the nicest features of Scene2D is the UI layer built over top of it. Scene2D.ui provides a series of widgets that make creating a UI an breeze, something often lacking in game development libraries. That said, there is one very confusing stumbling block before you […]
LibGDX Tutorial 9: Scene2D Part 4–UI Skins Read More