First, let me start by saying this step is completely optional!  Blender has integrated texture painting functionality, but if you prefer to work entirely in a 2D application like GIMP or Photoshop, that is completely your option.  That said, Blender’s painting abilities are pretty solid and are a great way to block in colours […]

  This one is short and sweet.  Until this point, we haven’t actually applied a texture to our model, we’ve instead been using a reference grid image.  We can re-use the same image file as our texture. First in the Properties window, we click the Textures tab:   Next we create a new texture, simply […]

  As I mentioned in the prior tutorial section creating a UVMap is basically like wielding a pair of virtual scissors to cut your 3D object up so it can be smushed flat.  As we saw earlier, the default unwrap map is pretty, subpar:   Default unwrap:   Let’s start cutting things up.  First we […]

  In this post we are going to, for the most part, complete with the modelling portion.  In the end, I am going to stick with a relatively low polygon model so it can easily be used in a real-time 3D game, as well as for rendering a sprite.  Additionally, a lower polygon count makes […]

  So I fired up Unity today on my laptop and     Oh dear, this isn’t good.  After some playing around it turns out Unity doesn’t play well with Intel GPUs right now.  Thing is, I don’t have an Intel GPU, I’m running an nVidia GTX765.  Enter Optimus.   What’s Optimus?  It’s an Intel […]

  I have been a big fan of the Moai game engine for a long time, going back to when I created a tutorial series about using it.  Lately though, things got quite, really really really quite.  The forum activity really dropped off, and new commits weren’t being added to the github.  I had personally […]

  Way back in October of 2012 I mentioned the Platino 2D game engine.  It runs in Appcelerator Titanium a cross platform JavaScript based mobile development system.  Platino appears to have it’s roots in QuickTiGame2D, and open source 2D Titanium game engine.  Anyways, after several months in closed beta Platino is finally available to the […]

  I finally decided to check out LibGDX, a very cool and popular Java based cross platform game development library.  I’ve been meaning to check out LibGDX for ages, it’s the Java part that turned me off.  It’s not the programming language, Java is a really good one, it’s the eco-system.  Always it seems like […]

  One of the oldest and most popular articles on my site is I want to be a game developer… now what?  It offers a collection of advice for new game developers.  I keep intending to update it but frankly, not enough changed.  The following was recently posted on GameDev.net:   https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2011/08/04/I-want-to-be-a-game-developer.aspx This article was […]