Game Development

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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...

2D Graphics

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Adding content Create a new project and call it Chapter2Demo. XNA Game Studio created a class called...

Building Events

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Building a collision event system In a game such as Angry Birds, we would want to know...

Introducing a new game type – top-down

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) We want to start a new little game prototype. Let's create a little top-down shooter. For...

Detailing Environments

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Applying materials As it stands, our current level looks rather... well, bland. I'd say it's missing something...

Beating Back the Horde

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) What kind of game will we be making? We are going to make one of the...

Building your First Application with Papervision3D: Part 1

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This article covers the following: Introduction to classes and object-oriented programming Working with the document class/main application file Introduction to classes and object-oriented programming In this...

Project Setup and Modeling a Residential Project

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In this article by Scott H. MacKenzie and Adam Rendek, authors of the book ArchiCAD 19 – The Definitive Guide, we will see how...

Instance and Devices

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In this article by Pawel Lapinski, the author of the book Vulkan Cookbook, we will learn how to destroy a logical device, destroy a...

Resource Manager

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(For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Resource definitions In order to be able to define resources, we need to create a module that...

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