Game Development

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Getting Ready to Fight

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In this article by Ashley Godbold author of book Mastering Unity 2D Game Development, Second Edition, we will start out by laying the main...

Thumping Moles for Fun

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) The project is… In this article, we will be building a mole thumping game. Inspired by...

Basic Concepts

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  (For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Scene and Actors You must have heard the quote written by William Shakespeare: "All the world's a stage,...

Making an entity multiplayer-ready

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Understanding the dataflow of Lua entities in a multiplayer environment When using your own Lua entities in...

Cooking cupcakes towers

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In this article by Francesco Sapio author of the book Getting Started with Unity 2D Game Development - Second Edition we will see how to...

Using Animated Pieces in a Board-based Game with XNA 4.0

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  XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide Create your own exciting games with Microsoft XNA 4.0 Dive headfirst into game creation with XNA Four different styles...

Illuminating a Scene

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Working with lights Before starting to explain about lights, we need to learn how to create and...

Editor Tool, Prefabs, and Main Menu

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In this article by Edward Kyle Langley, author of the book Learning Unity iOS Game Development, we will learn that the player has the ability...

Spacecraft – Adding Details

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In this article by Christopher Kuhn, the author of the book Blender 3D Incredible Machines, we'll model our Spacecraft. As we do so, we'll...

Scenes and Menus

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In this article by Siddharth Shekar, author of the book Cocos2d Cross-Platform Game Development Cookbook, Second Edition, we will cover the following recipes: Adding level selection scenes Scrolling...

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