I am about to create a game sprite for my own use and I figured I would document the process.  I am going to make an animated jet sprite and ultimately output a multi-frame single sprite sheet ready for use in a game.   Through the process I (may) cover: Concept design ( as […]

  I took a look at the Awe6 inverted game framework a couple months back and was quite impressed.  Shortly after I decided to go with Haxe the NME project announced the rebranding to OpenFL and move to Haxe 3, something I looked upon with some doom and gloom.  Fortunately it’s not that bad after […]

  I just received the following email: Dear You, We recently became aware of suspicious activity relating to some of Crytek’s websites, and acted quickly to take those websites offline for security reasons. The sites listed below are currently offline: Crytek.com Mycryengine.com Crydev.net MyCrysis.com   The following Crytek sites remain online and are not affected […]

  It’s a pilot program for now, but Facebook has tentatively entered the world of game publishing, now that their exclusive agreement with Zygna has expired.  They are currently accepting applications from small and medium sized developers.     So, what does a game developer get out of this?   Three things.    The first […]

After waiting about 19 years for SFML 2 to be released, 2.1 has followed only a month or two later.   This is mostly a bug fix release: SFML 2.1sfml-window- Fixed MouseMove event sometimes not generated when holding left button on Windows (#225)- Fixed ContextSettings ignored when creating a 3.x/4.x OpenGL context on Linux (#258)- […]

  I have finally put together a single page for Project Anarchy tutorials.     Basically, it’s just a static page where you can access all current and future Project Anarchy tutorials on GameFromScratch.  There are a couple advantages to this though.  First, it makes it easier to find things than using tags.  Second, since […]

  In this second part of the input tutorials, we are going to look at handling input on a mobile device.  We are going to cover: Configuring the RemoteInput plugin in vForge Connecting with an Android device Handling touch Handling acceleration   This tutorial is fairly short, as once you’ve got RemoteInput up and running, […]

  For a point release, this one’s pretty good.   As mentioned in the title, probably the biggest change is the addition of 3 new platforms, Windows 8 ( as in the app store ), Windows Phone 8 and Blackberry 10.  Windows Phone 8 “Pro” is available free to Unity Pro subscribers.   Probably the […]

Today the Blender Foundation released Blender 2.68.  It’s not a large release, epecially compared to some of the more recent ones, but it has a few modelling features I am going to absolutely love.         First and foremost is the change to the Bridge tool.  You can now bridge between edge loops […]