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We covered viewports a while back but now we are going to go into a bit more detail, as it’s an important subject. There is a 1080p version of this tutorial available here. Please note, the full screen portions didn’t display properly in the video. One very important thing to understand is, […]
Godot Engine Tutorial Part 13–Viewports and Cameras Read More
In this chapter we are going to look at using audio in XNA. Originally XNA supported one way of playing audio, using XACT (Cross Platform Audio Creation Tool ). Since the initial release they added a much simplified API. We will be taking a look at both processes. There is an HD video […]
MonoGame Tutorial: Audio Read More
In this chapter we are going to explore handling input from the keyboard, mouse and gamepad in your MonoGame game. XNA/MonoGame also have support for mobile specific input such as motion and touch screens, we will cover theses topics in a later topic. There is an HD video of this chapter available here. […]
MonoGame Tutorial: Handling Keyboard, Mouse and GamePad Input Read More
Now we move on to a topic that people always seem to love, graphics! In the past few chapters/videos I’ve said over and over “don’t worry, we will cover this later”, well… welcome to later. We are primarily going to focus on loading and displaying textures using a SpriteBatch. As you will quickly discover, […]
MonoGame Tutorial: Textures and SpriteBatch Read More
In this chapter we are going to look closely at the structure of a typical XNA game. By the end you should have a better idea of the life cycle of a typical MonoGame application, from program creation, loading content, the game loop, unloading content and exiting. If you prefer videos to text, […]
MonoGame Tutorial: Creating an Application Read More
So a lot has happened in the land of SFML since I created my SFML tutorial series and I decided to check out what’s new. I happen to be on my Macbook, so Visual Studio wasn’t an option. Time for a bit of a confession… I hate Xcode, especially for C++ development. I just find […]
Creating an SFML project on Mac OS using CLion and CMake Read More
On a daily basis I use dozens of different programming languages. Some languages are certainly better than other languages at certain tasks, while other languages truly shine on certain platforms. Some languages are more portable than others, others are more customizable while some can be faster. All that said, when all other things are […]
C# comes to Unreal Engine Read More
Previous Part Table Of ContentsNext Part In this part of the Cocos2d-x tutorial series we are going to take a look at what’s involved in handling keyboard events. If you went through the mouse/touch tutorial, a lot of this is going to seem very familiar, as the process is quite similar. That said, […]
Cocos2d-x Tutorial Series: Handling the Keyboard Read More
Previous Part Table Of ContentsNext Part So at this point in time we’ve covered configuring Cocos2d-x, basic graphics, mouse, touch and keyboard event handling but wouldn’t it be nice to, you know… do something? Most games are pretty boring if they are completely static, no? Well in this tutorial section we are going […]
Cocos2d-x Tutorial Series: Game Loop, Updates and Action Handling Read More
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part Now that we have Cocos2d-x installed and configured and our project created, we are going to take a look at basic graphics operations. This tutorial assumes you ran through the prior part and created a project already. I am going to assume you have a working […]
Cocos2d-x Tutorial Series: Basic Sprites, Positioning, Parenting and Coordinate Systems Read More
