You may remember me discussing PlayN in previous posts, it’s a Google run cross-platform, open source game library.  Previously the most missing feature was iOS support and frankly that feature is still missing, but there is light at the end of the tunnel!     PlayN developer Michael Bayne recently made a post […]

    OK, so I may just be late to the party on this CtotW, as this product is currently one of the darlings of the programming world but I ignored it completely until now.  What is it I ignored so completely and now am rather enamored of?   Node.js     What exactly is […]

      Our first Blender reference guide chapter has just been put online.  Think of it as a mash-up between a quick reference guide and a video tutorial.  We will cover off the most commonly performed actions in Blender with instructions on how to perform them via hotkey or using the mouse, as well […]

    I work on a multi-monitor setup and until now I have been using Blender on a single monitor.  Sometimes though, like when texturing, having a multi monitor setup is ideal.  I had always thought Blender offered no support for working across multiple monitors, how wrong I was!  Not only can any window be […]

  Alright, first off this post has almost nothing to do with, well anything.  I just discovered this and frankly I think it’s damned cool! Although it has absolutely nothing to do with making games, who doesn’t like Lego?   I have a Safari online book subscription ( which I love by the way ) […]

    One of the biggest stumbling blocks for people learning to create games is the required mathematics.  A common question people ask is where is the best place to learn, the KhanAcademy is certainly a very good place to start.     They literally have thousands of video tutorials, over a wide variety of […]

      Sadly SFML only included precompiled binaries for 1.6 and even in that case, they don’t support Visual Studio 2010.  If you need to build SFML 2.0 for use with Visual Studio 2010, use the following step.     Go to this page and download the SFML 2.0 snapshot.     It’s a […]

    No, you aren’t in a time machine and we didn’t just warp back to 1995.    You may notice that I make use of animated gifs quite often for demonstrating things that require motion, or to illustrate my games in action.  Although the world has mostly left them behind, there are still some […]

    I am just embarking on my next tutorial series that I hope you will find interesting.  As I said earlier, I’ve rather neglected the art side of things.  What I am going to do is go from nothing to a sprite sheet and show all of the steps in between.  That will basically […]

      Coming to Blender from other modelling packages, a few things are much less intuitive than you would expect.  I’ve been neglecting things from the art side of the fence for quite a while, so I am going to address that.  This post covers a couple handy tricks in Blender.  If you are […]