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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 […]
SpriteKit game development with Swift tutorial series Read More
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. […]
Adventures in Phaser with TypeScript tutorial series Read More
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
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
