Whether you’re a new student of game design and development, a hobbyist looking to expand the scope of their project or an experienced developer refining their skills: these are tools that every dev needs to know, whether it’s because they can save you time, money, both or they are more beginner-friendly than the alternatives. This article will cover both 3D and 2D games, as well as a variety of Engines.
There’s a couple of different ways to name this type of music, but the one that I think captures it all is “safe-zone”. Whether you’re in town (for an RPG), or on a save-screen (in a metroidvania); you’re safe. You cannot be harmed here. The best way to give this message to the player, is …
Your game needs music! In this article, I will take you through everything you need to know to stream audio files for your game.
Do you need a cool idea for a new game but you’re struggling to think of anything interesting? I mean, all the games have already been made already right? Well, the random game generator below has over 55,000 possibilities that it can produce. They haven’t all been done before. Some of it might be a …
You’ve thought about the rendering engine in Part 1, taken a look at all of the work needed in Part 2, and covered the sorts of functions you’ll need for audio in Part 3. Now we’ll go over the various “utilities” that you might need. Utilities are the part of the engine that I’m not …
A while ago I wrote an article on how to make quick Chip Tune music for your game using free and open-source software. Well, that was all well and good and everyone made some suitable music for their games. But now we need to get a little more in depth. In this article, I’ll show …
You’ve done it! You’ve made your first game, a clone of Pong. You went through the architecture of the codebase in part 1, then you coded the game up in part 2. Now you have a game! It’s a fun game, but it’s just like every other version of Pong, right? There’s also some things …
Your game needs audio! In this article, I will take you through everything you need to know to get sounds in your small game.
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.
Making games is hard, and you’re a people-person, so what better way to make a game, than with a team? And so here you are, trying to work out just how you find a game development team.
