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Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part So far we’ve covered creating a simple simulation then how to create physics bodies and apply forces to them now we look at dealing with collisions. Truth of the matter is, most of the work is just done for us. Let’s just right in with an example, […]
LibGDX LibGDX Tutorial 13: Physics with Box2D Part 3: Collisions Read More
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part So far we’ve look at what Scene2D provides in terms of Actors, Actions as well as handling input, now we will look at some of the scene management functionality it provides. One of the very powerful capabilities of Scene2D is grouping. Let’s jump right in with an […]
LibGDX Tutorial 3C: Scene management Read More
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part Remember in our earlier example where we used a ContactListener to check for a collision between two types of FixtureDef and how ungainly the check was? Remember when I said there was a much better way of doing this? Well, welcome the the better way, Filters. […]
LibGDX LibGDX Tutorial 13: Physics with Box2D Part 4: Controlling collisions using filters Read More
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part One of the nicest features of Scene2D is the UI layer built over top of it. Scene2D.ui provides a series of widgets that make creating a UI an breeze, something often lacking in game development libraries. That said, there is one very confusing stumbling block before you […]
LibGDX Tutorial 9: Scene2D Part 4–UI Skins Read More
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 […]
Cocos2d-x Tutorial Series: Installation, Creating a Project and Hello World Read More
This is the Table of Contents for our multi-part tutorial series covering all you need to know to create a game using Cocos2d-x and C++. The tutorial currently consists of: Installation, Creating a Project and Hello World This section looks at getting Cocos2d-x setup and running. It gives a bit […]
Cocos2d-x C++ Game Programming Tutorial Series Read More
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
So I’ve been looking at creating games using Phaser with TypeScript and I’ve run into my first few annoyances. The first of which is certainly debugging. At first glance debugging looks wonderful then I realized my mistake. In the previous post I said I had to add the generated JS file to the project […]
TypeScript debugging in Visual Studio with IE, Chrome and Firefox using Source Maps 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
