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Super Adventure Pals – Development Post Mortem
Super Adventure Pals is an action-adventure platformer game with RPG elements. In the three months since the game’s original release it has been played over 4 million times, had front page features on...
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Implementing Tetris: Clearing Lines
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Implementing TetrisIn my previous Tetris tutorial, I showed you how to handle collision detection in Tetris. Now let’s take a look at the other important aspect...
View ArticleAvoiding the Blob Antipattern: A Pragmatic Approach to Entity Composition
Organising your game code into component-based entities, rather than relying only on class inheritance, is a popular approach in game development. In this tutorial, we’ll look at why you might do this,...
View ArticleCreate a Simple Asteroids Game Using Component-Based Entities
In the previous tutorial, we created a bare-bones component-based Entity system. Now we’ll use this system to create a simple Asteroids game. Final Result Preview Here’s the simple Asteroids game we’ll...
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How to Learn Unity
Unity is a feature rich, fully integrated development engine for the creation of interactive 3D content. You want to make 3D games? Unity’s got you covered. In this article we’ll share books, tutorials...
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Understanding Steering Behaviors: Seek
Steering behaviors aim to help autonomous characters move in a realistic manner, by using simple forces that are combined to produce life-like, improvisational navigation around the characters’...
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Picking a Color Palette for Your Game’s Artwork
In this tutorial, we’ll look at what color palettes are, tools for choosing colors that go together, and the secret to picking a perfect color scheme for our games!An Introduction to Color PalettesThe...
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Shuffle Bags: Making Random() Feel More Random
A pseudo random number generator (PRNG) like the Random Class in C# is not a true random number generator: its goal is to approximate randomness with speed. This means it will often return an uneven...
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Tips for a One Man Gamedev Team: Should You Make Your Own Development Tools?
From level editors to physics engines to entire video game creation interfaces, there are a multitude of tools that exist to help both experienced and budding game developers get things done easily and...
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Understanding Steering Behaviors: Flee and Arrival
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Understanding Steering BehaviorsSteering behaviors aim to help autonomous characters move in a realistic manner, by using simple forces that combine to produce...
View ArticleWANTED: Game Developers to Explain Core Gamedev Terms and Concepts
Are you a game developer with an interest in helping others learn your craft? We’re looking for devs to write short posts explaining important game development terms and concepts like “game loop”,...
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Quick Tip: Intro to Object-Oriented Programming for Game Development
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Beginner's Guide to OOPWelcome to a new series of Quick Tips on Object-Oriented Programming! We’ll be going over the principles of OOP and how they can be used...
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Noise: Creating a Synthesizer for Retro Sound Effects – Introduction
This is the first in a series of tutorials in which we will create a synthesizer based audio engine that can generate sounds for retro-styled games. The audio engine will generate all of the sounds at...
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How Heavy Rain’s Narrative Is Strengthened by Its Gameplay
Heavy Rain received immense critical praise for being an experience that elevated video game storytelling to a new level. In this article, we’ll look at why that is and what we can learn from...
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Constraints Are an Essential Aspect of Game Development
When you’re asked to tackle a game development project you want to have as much freedom as possible, a generous budget, long development times and a big team. That would be a dream scenario, right?...
View ArticleQuick Tip: The OOP Principle of Cohesion
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Beginner's Guide to OOPIn the first post of this series, we discussed why object-oriented programming (OOP) was helpful for game development, and learned how to...
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Grey – Post Mortem
Grey is a total conversion Half Life 2 horror mod three years in the making. The team has made a lot of changes to the base Source engine, adding countless new mechanics alongside new monsters, maps,...
View ArticleNoise: Creating a Synthesizer for Retro Sound Effects – Core Engine
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Noise: Creating a Synthesizer for Retro Sound EffectsThis is the second in a series of tutorials in which we will create a synthesizer based audio engine that...
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Best of Tuts+ in October 2012
Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to...
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Announcing Crafttuts+: Teaching Everything Craft and Handmade!
We’re excited to let you know about the latest addition to the Tuts+ family — Crafttuts+!Crafttuts+ is focused on teaching everything crafty — fundamental craft skills, decorations, ceramics, crochet,...
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