Sorry about the lack of updates and additional tutorials lately. I have been busy trying to finish my first android game with my fiance. I have been learning how to program using the libgdx game framework, and it makes the whole process of programming an openGL based game much smoother. It’s a game used to …
This article will show you how to add user input to control the “hero” object created in the previous article. Additionally, we will add an enemy that will wander back and forth, stop and reverse direction at the ends of the screen, and will bounce up the hero when jumped onto.
When I found out the author of the largest Flash game development blog had written a book, I was very eager to pick it up and try it out. (his announcement on his blog HERE) Emanuele’s blog has been around for many years, and he has great information from starting out in actionscript and beginning …
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The purpose of these articles will be to make a basic side scrolling type game using Box2d to handle collision detection. This article will show you how to set up a project with box2d, and start creating objects to be used in a side scrolling type game (such as Super Mario Brothers).
What is the Asus EP121? The Asus EEE EP121 tablet/slate is a great multi-purpose device. For artists, it has a 12″ wacom screen that has 256 levels of pressure sensitivity. For people looking for a tablet or new laptop, it is a lightweight, relatively high resolution full windows device, with bluetooth hardware keyboard, that accepts …
In the last section, we created a way to detect collisions, created particle explosions, and broke the asteroids up into smaller pieces when hit. In this section, we’ll keep track of the lives, score, make levels, and create a GUI for starting, restarting, and pausing the game.
In the last section, we created an asteroids class to easily create a variety of asteroids, as well as move them around on screen. In this section, we’ll create a way to detect collisions between the asteroids and the ship or bullets, and create particle explosions when the collisions happen, as well as break apart …
In the last section, we created bullets, and a method of wrapping the ship and bullets to the other side of the screen when they reach an edge of the screen. In this section, we’ll create an asteroids class that allows us to make a variety of asteroids quickly and easily. We’ll also move them …
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One of my favorite Actionscript game programming blogs is http://www.emanueleferonato.com. He has been around for quite a long time, and when I decided to go into flash/actionscript from C++, for game programming, his old posts were invaluable. Check out his book, if you’re interested, let him know, or pick up the book! $25 for the …
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Have you ever accidentally hardcoded information into your program, to later realize it would be easier to not have to compile for small changes? Storing information in XML allows you an easy way to change parts of your program, without needing to re-compile. You can store entire levels, character definitions, and directions to artwork from …
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