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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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Eclipse has this annoying habit of using the JRE instead of a JDK you have installed. It isn’t immediately obvious what is happening until you attempt to build a project. For example, I just move some PlayN source to a new laptop and when I try to compile I get: [ERROR] Failed […]
