Amazon have released Game Connect a system for offering DLC and other game purchases ( subscriptions? ) using Amazons infrastructure.   At first glance this seems pretty minor, yet another payment processor, but it is actually a rather large deal… why?  Because your purchasable game content will be included on Amazon.com, bringing massive exposure to small […]

  This one is a big one.  If you have never heard of it, monoGame started life as a way to port XNA applications to the various Mono targets (including iOS and Android), built on top of OpenGL.  With Microsoft basically retiring XNA, monoGame has basically become the future of XNA. The biggest and most […]

I am testing my blogging software in a different mode.  That is what this post is all about, nothing exciting, sorry.   —————————————   Testing concluded and working mostly well.   If anyone is curious, a while back I did a series of posts about blogging on MacOS and the search for a Windows Live […]

jMonkeyEngine, the popular, free and open source Java based game engine have just announced a mirror of their repository on GitHub.   This mirror is not official yet, and we might still make changes. Don’t make yourself reliant on it. Don’t make any pull requests to this repository, they will be ignored. We’d like to […]

  One of the themes of this site has always been to focus on low cost (or free) game development technologies.  As a result, you will tend to find content here tends to focus more on products like Blender or Wings instead of 3D Studio Max or Photoshop.  I will of course share any game […]

  I’ve been at a bit of a loss for what to work on next.  I am still going to be working on game math recipes, as well as the HTML based level editor, but I wanted to start a new tutorial series and couldn’t really decide what to work on.  Then I realized how […]

  You may have noticed an unsightly error message if you tried to access GameFromScratch.com this afternoon.  Well, long story short, GameFromScratch.com runs on one of Flexamail’s servers.  On the server where I happen to store database backups.  They occur weekly and are a few GB each in size, so if I forget about them, […]

As per this story on The Register, nVidia has announced they are creating a new handheld console named “Shield”.   Let’s start off with the most obvious.  It’s ugly, exceedingly ugly.  The form factor isn’t exactly practical either, this isn’t a handheld you are going to be slipping in your pocket anytime soon.  Which begs […]

  As you can see by the volume of posts here on GameFromScratch.com, I took a bit of a holiday during the, um, holidays.  During that time I did do a fair bit of reading.  One book that came up on Safari is Pro HTML5 Games  ( Safari link if you also subscribe ) that […]

  The title pretty much says it all.  A developer working with the developer release of the OUYA console, the upcoming Android based home console,  has released a series of videos to YouTube showing the OUYA in action.   The first video is a hands on with the video hardware.     The second video […]