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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...

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,...

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;...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Run Xcode Run

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In this article by Jorge Jordán, author of the book Cocos2d Game Development Blueprints, we will see how to run the newly created project...

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....

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...

Interviews