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How to Create a Custom 2D Physics Engine: The Basics and Impulse Resolution
There are many reasons you might want to create a custom physics engine: first, learning and honing your skills in mathematics, physics and programming are great reasons to attempt such a project;...
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9 Tips for Indie Game Developers I Learned at GDC 2013
When I attended GDC 2013 I spent most of my time at the Independent Game Developers Summit where I got to hear many successful indie developers talk about how their projects succeeded and how they’ve...
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How to Extend a Game’s Replay Value by Including Different Modes
There’s little denying that developing a game, regardless of its scope, requires a lot of hard work. After spending months building solid core mechanics, designing sophisticated enemy behaviors and...
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Something New and Exciting: Tuts+ Hub
We’re ready to announce something new and exciting — the Tuts+ Hub beta!As you know, Tuts+ is all about helping people learn. With Hub, we’ve worked to deliver an experience that makes it easy for you...
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Coding a Custom Sequence Generator to Render a Starscape
In my previous article, I explained the difference between a pseudorandom number generator and a sequence generator, and examined the advantages a sequence generator has over a PRNG. In this tutorial...
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Let’s Spec Into Talent Trees: A Primer for Game Designers
Think of the talent tree as the greatest mini game ever conceived. They’re fun little puzzles that empower the player to personalize the game into something they themselves enjoy. Though simple and...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Avoid “Game & Watch” Gravity in Your Characters’ Jumps
Ever seen the old Game & Watch games where characters were either on the ground or in the air, with no transition in between? That can be a cool effect when used in the right place, but it looks...
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Indie or Core? How I Found Myself at GDC 2013
2013 was my first year attending GDC (Game Developer Conference), despite being out in San Francisco for Flash Game Summit these last few years. GDC was incredible, and a lot bigger than I had...
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Making Your First Game: Fernando Bevilacqua’s Teamwork Tale
The path of a game developer is full of surprises and challenges. You can walk it by yourself, but I was fortunate enough to start my journey with a team, within my own company. This is the story of...
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How to Build a JRPG: A Primer for Game Developers
This article is a high-level overview for creating a JRPG (Japanese Role-Playing Game) such as the early Final Fantasy games. We’ll look at the architecture and systems that make up the skeleton of a...
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Marketing Your Indie Game: The Single Most Important Thing That No One Knows...
Once upon a time, marketing was considered taboo and almost completely ignored by game developers. These days, most devs recognise its importance and do make some effort, but many don’t know where to...
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Take Your Game’s Immersion to the Next Level With Responsive Game Music
Music that is capable of changing dynamically and seamlessly to reflect what is happening on-screen can add a whole new level of immersion to a game. In this tutorial we take a look at one of the...
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How to Create a Custom 2D Physics Engine: The Core Engine
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series How to Create a Custom Physics EngineIn this part of my series on creating a custom 2D physics engine for your games, we’ll add more features to the impulse...
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Cubes vs Space Marines: Making a Great Game in Your Basement
A game can require significant time and commitment before it even begins to show its core design was ill conceived – doubly so if you’re new to this game creation ordeal. In order to find the right...
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Try Tuts+ Premium and get cash back on a monthly subscription.At $19 a month, Tuts+ Premium is fantastic value. But it’s even better when we hand your first $19 right back to you! For a limited time,...
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5 Important Ways to Add Polish to Your Game
You’ve poured hours of your life into your game, and it’s become everything you thought it could be. Well, I’m here to let you know that’s not true – there’s always more polish you can add to an...
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An Indie Game Developer’s Marketing Checklist (Including Portable Formats)
There’s no worse feeling than creating a game you’re proud of, only to watch it drift off into obscurity. Unfortunately, it’s no longer enough to only create great content. In order to differentiate...
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Quick Tip: Smoothly Move an Entity to the Position of the Mouse
Here’s a simple snippet of code that comes in handy all the time: how to move an object from one point to another, in a smooth, flowing, continuous motion. We’ll use the Pythagorean distance and a bit...
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Understanding Steering Behaviors: Collision Avoidance
This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Understanding Steering BehaviorsDecent NPC navigation often requires the ability to avoid obstacles. This tutorial covers the collision avoidance steering...
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How to Create a Custom 2D Physics Engine: Friction, Scene and Jump Table
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series How to Create a Custom Physics EngineIn the first two tutorials in this series, I covered the topics of Impulse Resolution and Core Architecture. Now it’s time...
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