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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
LibGDX Tutorial Series Welcome to the GameFromScratch.com LibGDX tutorial series. Select a link below to expand and view the video. Each video is available in 1080p resolution on YouTube. Where applicable, there will also be a post to a page with full source examples for each tutorial. If you prefer text based tutorials to video, […]
LibGDX Video Tutorial Series Read More
Exactly as the title says, this title takes someone with ZERO experience and teaches them how to use Blender to the point they will be able to create their own low polygon fully textured game model for use in a 3D game engine like Unity or UDK. It then goes one step further and […]
Complete Blender Game Art Tutorial. From zero experience to 2D or 3D game ready asset 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
In this section, we are going to look at the fundamental aspects of modelling in 3D. If you have done any work in 3D, a lot of this will be old hat for you and you can safely skip ahead to the bottom for the Blender specific details. 3D Fundamentals At the […]
Programmer Art: Blender for Programmers Part 3 — Introduction to 3D modelling Read More
One of the most daunting aspects of game development for many people is the mathematics involved. The following are a collection of recipes that go into detail on how to perform a number of common math related tasks. Each example ships with at least one working demonstration application (written in JavaScript using EaselJS), with […]
Game Development Math Recipes Read More
It is quite common to want to rotate one point relative to another the location of another point. This math recipe looks at exactly this process. Just the math angle = (angle ) * (Math.PI/180); // Convert to radians var rotatedX = Math.cos(angle) * (point.x – center.x) – Math.sin(angle) * (point.y-center.y) + center.x; var […]
GameDev math recipes: Rotating one point around another point Read More
This recipe looks at how to rotate one sprite relative to another point. In this example, we rotate a jet sprite to face the position of the mouse. Mouse over the application to your right to see how the centred sprite follows the mouse cursor. You may need to tap the screen to focus […]
GameDev math recipes: Rotating to face a point Read More
This tutorial series will be a progressive journey through the Moai SDK. To a certain degree, each is a “micro” tutorial, covering a different aspect of Moai. Each tutorial builds on the last and when taken as a whole, once completed, you should have all of the information you need to successfully make […]
Moai tutorial series: The adventures of an intrepid programmer in the lands of Moai 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
