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Mixamo is a great animation resource, that enables you to quickly (and currently freely) add animations to your 3D models. However, if you want to incorporate the results into your Blender workflow, it can be a bit non-intuitive. The Mixamo documentation recommend using Collada, which simply does not work well. There instructions also skip […]
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It is getting more and more common for kids of younger and younger ages to show interest in game development. In this day and age there is a wealth of information out there, possibly too much information at times. This guide is intended to help parents or younger readers get started in the world […]
GameFromScratch Guide to Getting Kids Started in Game Development Read More
This is the homepage for a video based tutorial series hosted on YouTube that aims to teach game development from the very beginning using the Lua programming language and the Love game engine. The series requires no prior programming knowledge to begin. It begins by teaching the Lua programming language, then dives into using […]
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The following is a collection of tutorials showing you how to use the Superpowers HTML5 game engine. Superpowers is an open source collobaroative game engine with Typescript and experimental Lua support. Part One – Getting Started In this tutorial we setup the Superpowers engine, launch a server and create our first project. […]
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I recently ran into a bit of a challenge and the work around wasn’t entirely obvious so I’ve decided to share the process here. The XNA Game Studio install includes a couple of tools, the XACT audio tool being specifically what I was after. Unfortunately to install XNA you need to first have Visual […]
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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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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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The following are the multi part tutorial series hosted on GameFromScratch.com. They are listed by a mix of chronological order and popularity. If it exists, the link will bring you to the series table of contents, otherwise there may be multiple links. Godot 3 Game Engine Tutorial Series Godot 3 is a massively updated version […]
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In this tutorial, we look at animating sprites using the Animation class. We look at loading sprites two different ways. First creates them by splitting up a Texture loaded into memory. The second example uses a texture atlas. As always the code is provide below. You can watch the video in HD here. […]
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Welcome to the first coding tutorial of the GameFromScratch.com Godot tutorial series. We are going to take a quick look at the Godot IDE then jump in and create our first application. I want to say right up front, I am no Godot expert, so if I may a mistake or you spot something […]
Godot Engine Tutorial– Part 1: Your First Godot Application Read More