In this article, I’m going to show you how I setup my very own serialisation library. Sure, there’s existing libraries you can use, but like always, I don’t even look at them, I’m more interested in doing it myself.
If you’re making a game engine, or really any memory intensive application, it’s a really good idea to use a custom memory allocator. In this article, I’ll go over why you want them, how you can build them in C++, and how you can use them in the standard STL Containers
For this second article I’m going to go through each of those classes and the glue and I’m going to give you some code that will compile into Pong and you can play it, and have fun.
In these articles, I’m going to show you how to make Pong from scratch. Not completely from scratch, we’re going to use some libraries. Or maybe you could combine this article with some learning of your own to build your own libraries.
In the first part of this series I talked about the Renderer and what you need to have for a simple Game Engine for the kind of games a solo hobby dev will be making. In this article I’ll go through my own engine’s parts and explain all the systems and what is involved in …
Planning Your Game So you’re ready to make your first game, or you’re ready to make your 33rd game. The first steps are the same, plan it out into discrete peices of work that you can complete it in your spare time. For the purposes of this article, we’re going to be making a game …
