2D Game Development

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Adding Bodies to the World

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(For more resources related on Spring, see here.) Creating a fixture A fixture is used to bind the shape on a body, and to define its...

Running a simple game using Pygame

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How to do it... Imports: First we will import the required Pygame modules. If Pygame is installed properly, we should get no errors: import pygame, sys from...

Making Money with Your Game

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Your game development strategy If you want to build a game to make some money, it is...

Creating Our First Game

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Let's get serious – the game The game we will implement now is inspired by Frogger. In...

Playing with Particles

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Introducing particle effects Particle effects are the decorative flourishes used in games to represent dynamic and complex...

Data-driven Design

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Loading XML files I have chosen to use XML files because they are so easy to parse....

Warfare Unleashed Implementing Gameplay

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Equipping the entities The SceneNode base class was inherited by the Entity class. Entities are the central...

Cocos2d-x: Installation

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Download and installation All the examples in this article were developed on a Mac using Xcode. Although...
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Setting Up Slick2D

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) What is Slick2D? Slick2D is a multi-platform library for two dimensional game development that sits upon the...

Going Isometric

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Cartesian to isometric equations A very important thing to understand here is that the level data still...

Must Read in Game Dev

Why should you use Unreal Engine 4 to build Augmented and...

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This is an exciting time to be a game developer. New technologies like Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are here and growing...

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