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This tutorial series covers all aspects of using the open source and cross platform MonoGame framework, the spiritual successor to the XNA game library. We will be covering all facets of game development using MonoGame. This tutorial is available in both text and video tutorial format. Additionally it is available as an e-book for […]
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Today we are going to look at creating 2D maps composed of tiles. You can think of tiles as re-usable lego block like sprites that are assembled to create a more detailed map. Tiles are stored in a data structure called a tileset, where collision details can be added. These tiles and tile sets […]
Unreal Engine Tutorial Part Six: Using Tilesets and Tilemaps 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 […]
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In the previous part we looked at we look in a bit more detail at working with Sprites, now we are going to get a bit more… animated. In this tutorial we are going to look at using Spritesheets, named Flipbooks in Unreal Engine, to create sprite animations. A bit of a warning […]
Unreal Engine Tutorial Part Four: Sprite Animation (Flipbooks) Read More
In the previous tutorial we created a new project but didn’t really go anywhere with it. Instead we were focusing more on learning our way around the Unreal Engine interface. By the way, with each tutorial I assume you are familiar with the subject matter of the tutorial that came before it. This tutorial […]
Unreal Engine Tutorial Part Two: Your first application Read More
A video only version of this tutorial is available here. In this part of the Unreal vs Unity Tutorial Series, we are going to take an introductory look at Unreal Engine. A bit of a guide tour of the interface as you will need to understand it to make 2D games. I assume […]
Unreal Engine Tutorial Part One: Getting Started with Unreal Engine Read More
Welcome to the Godot Tutorial Series Welcome to the GameFromScratch.com Godot tutorial series. The Godot Engine is an open source, C++ based game engine for making 2D and 3D games for most mobile and desktop platforms. The editor can be run on Windows, Mac and Linux. This series will hopefully cover all aspects of Godot […]
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Right off the hop for my new game I have to deal with a problem that many games have to deal with but one that could have a huge impact on how my game is structured, so I am going to address it with a proof of concept right up front. That thing, as […]
Creating dynamically equipped characters in 2D and 3D games Read More
One man game development studios are becoming more and more common these days and plenty of them are having success. That said, what do you do when that one man doesn’t happen to be an artist? This post looks at some of the options the Indie game developer has for creating or acquiring art for […]
A programmer’s guide to creating art for your game Read More
One area of Blender that is often over looked, or people are downright unaware of, is its video editing capabilities. Hidden behind the 3D functionality we all know and love, under a layer of yes… sometimes confusing UI, lives a remarkably capable NLE ( non-linear editor ). In this tutorial I am going […]
Tutorial: Simple video editing using Blender 2.6x Read More