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20 Cinematic Music Tracks to Inspire and Excite Your Next Video
Your choice of music can be everything when it comes to your video project. We've put together some of our favourite pieces, loosely categorised to make it easy for you to find what you want.Photograph...
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Making Healing Fun
What is best in games? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and get cool weapon upgrades? Sadly, the alternative answer—"to heal the sick, bring people together, and make everyone...
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Introducing SpriteKit
SpriteKit is Apple's 2D game engine—a rendering engine built on top of OpenGL. It was introduced with iOS 7, and each subsequent release has brought great additions to the framework. With the use of...
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An Updated Primer for Creating Isometric Worlds, Part 1
What You'll Be CreatingWe have all played our fair share of amazing isometric games, be it the original Diablo, or Age of Empires or Commandos. The first time you came across an isometric game, you may...
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Updated Primer for Creating Isometric Worlds, Part 2
What You'll Be CreatingIn this final part of the tutorial series, we'll build on the first tutorial and learn about implementing pickups, triggers, level swapping, path finding, path following, level...
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Tips and Tricks for Augmented Reality With Unity and Vuforia
Hello, Augmented Reality traveller! In this post, I'll show you some cool features of Vuforia that make it possible to create engaging AR apps. We'll take a look at Cube and Cylinder Targets, Smart...
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SpriteKit Basics: Nodes
SpriteKit is Apple's 2D game engine—a rendering engine built on top of OpenGL. It was introduced with iOS 7, and each subsequent release has brought great additions to the framework. With the use of...
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SpriteKit Basics: Sprites
In this series, we're learning how to use SpriteKit to build 2D games for iOS. In this post, we'll continue our exploration of SpriteKit nodes, and learn about a special kind of node called a...
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Unity Terrain Engine Tools
What You'll Be CreatingUnity is a multi-platform game engine developed by Unity Technologies and is used to create video games and applications for a multitude of devices (PC, consoles, mobile devices,...
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Creating a Hexagonal Minesweeper
What You'll Be CreatingIn this tutorial, I will try to introduce the interesting world of hexagonal tile-based games using the easiest of approaches. You will learn how to convert a two-dimensional...
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The Smoke & Mirrors of Good Countdowns, Part 1
What You'll Be CreatingCountdowns are simple elements that appear in a lot of games, yet their design can be easily overlooked.With a few simple additions, though, a regular timer can be made much more...
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The Smoke & Mirrors of Good Countdowns, Part 2
What You'll Be CreatingLast time, we looked at countdowns in games, how they are set up, and what elements you can use to make them more engaging. There are much more than will fit in a single article,...
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Now Available on Envato Elements: Unlimited Stock Photos
Welcome to unlimited stock photos on Envato Elements!If you're already an Elements subscriber, you'll now see that, along with all the graphics, fonts, web templates, 3D models and everything else...
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How to Create a Low Poly Floating Island in C4D
What You'll Be CreatingLearn Cinema 4D quickly and easily by creating a Floating Island Landscape. Follow this tutorial step by step for use in video games, graphic design and illustration projects.You...
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Balancing a Closed Economy in Multiplayer Games
For players, one of the most scrutinized aspects of a video game is its immersion factor. For designers, it’s creating the illusion with seamless finesse. From the first apprehensive steps of level 1...
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Grab 16 Free Stock Photos and Design Assets From Envato Elements
Last month, we made a big announcement: unlimited stock photos on Envato Elements. Now, to celebrate the launch, we're giving away 16 free images and design assets, to give a small taste of what...
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Introduction to Vuforia on Unity for Creating Augmented Reality Applications
What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial is going to cover how to implement a basic augmented reality application with Vuforia SDK on Unity. Throughout the tutorial, you are going to learn how to generate...
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SpriteKit Basics: Putting It All Together
What You'll Be CreatingIn this post we'll build a simple game from scratch. Along the way, we'll touch on some of the most important aspects of the SpriteKit library.This post builds on what we've...
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Adobe Alternatives: Pixel Art Applications
Pixel art is often viewed as just a retro style of graphics made for the purpose of nostalgia; a throwback to the early days of video games. However to me, and many other lovers of pixel art, it’s the...
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Basic 2D Platformer Physics, Part 7: Slopes Groundwork
What You'll Be CreatingDemoThe demo shows the end result of the slope implementation. Use WASD to move the character. Right mouse button creates a tile. You can use the scroll wheel or the arrow keys...
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