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Adding Sound, Music, and Video in 3D Game Development with Microsoft Silverlight 3: Part...

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Time for action – animating projections Your project manager wants you to animate the perspective transform applied to the video while it is being reproduced. We...

Dragging a CCNode in Cocos2D-Swift

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 In this article by Ben Trengrove, author of the book Cocos2D Game Development Essentials, we will see how can we update our sprite position...

Introduction to the Editing Operators in Blender: A Sequel

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  Blender 2.5 Materials and Textures Cookbook Over 80 great recipes to create life-like Blender objects         Read more about this book       (For more resources on Blender, see here.) Well,...

Looking Good – The Graphical Interface

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We will start by creating a simple Tic-tac-toe game, using the basic pieces of GUI that Unity provides. Following this, we will discuss how...

First Person Shooter Part 1 – Creating Exterior Environments

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In this article by John P. Doran, the author of the book Unity 5.x Game Development Blueprints, we will be creating a first-person shooter;...

Cross-platform Building

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In this article by Karan Sequeira, author of the book Cocos2d-x Game Development Blueprints, we'll leverage the awesome aspect of Cocos2d-x to build one of...

Adding Finesse to Your Game

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Adding a background There is still a lot of black in the background and as the game...

Introducing variables

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) In order to store data, you have to store data in the right kind of variables....

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....

Managing and Displaying Information

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) In order to realize these goals, in this article, we'll be doing the following: Displaying a countdown...

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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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