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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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Ok, I’ll admit, this topic isn’t the most incredibly gamedev related thing I’ve covered, but I figured enough of you might find it useful that I should share this. Like many other things, Blender has incredibly powerful text manipulation and rendering features built in, but working with them isn’t always intuitive. We work with […]
Creating Text in Blender Read More
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part There is an old law, possibly predating the age of man, that all tutorials must start with Hello World. I am nothing if not law abiding, so therefore let’s create a Hello World app. Hello World is generally one of the simplest programs you can create, you […]
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Table Of Contents Next Part Welcome to the GameFromScratch.com Cocos2d-x tutorial series. Cocos2d-x is a cross platform, C++ based port of the popular Cocos2D ObjectiveC game development library. Using the most recent version of Cocos2D-x you can target Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android. Previous versions enabled you to target even more targets […]
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Table Of Contents Next Part In case you’ve never heard of it, LibGDX is a Java based game library capable of targeting iOS, Android, Desktop ( Windows, Mac and Linux ) and HTML5. It provides a full suite of 2D game functionality including Input, Graphics, Fonts, Physics, Storage and increasingly, 3D. So basically LibGDX […]
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Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part This is the part people always find the most fun, the actual act of putting graphics up on screen. Let’s start with about the simplest project that we can. We are going to display this sprite (created in this tutorial): On screen. One important thing […]
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Or… How to take a Blender model you downloaded from the web and make it actually usable in your game in 28 easy steps! … granted, the second title doesn’t have the same flow to it, does it? I just had to run through this process and I figured I would share […]
Baking Blender materials to texture to make them usable in a game engine Read More
This is the table of contents for GameFromScratch’s ongoing tutorial series on programming games using the SpriteKit library with the Swift programming language. This series will cover all you need to know to work with SpriteKit as well as some of the ins and outs of using the new Swift programming language with real world […]
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This is the table of contents page for the ongoing series on working with the Phaser HTML5 gaming library using the TypeScript programming language. This is a well documented library, although almost all of the documentation is in JavaScript. Getting it to work with TypeScript can take a bit of hoop jumping. […]
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Let me start off by saying that exporting from Blender is always a pain in the ass. This experience didn’t prove to be an exception. I will describe the process in some detail. First and foremost, Blender 2.69 DIDNT work. At least not for me, not matter what I did, Blender 2.69 would […]
3D models and animation from Blender to LibGDX Read More
