So, you’re ready to start creating your very own video games. However, there comes an important question to answer when you start: what programming language should you learn how to code? While arguably most programming languages can be used to create games, including high-level languages like Python, some choices do have more benefits than others. … Read more Best Programming Languages for Game Development
How does one make a game? Perhaps this is a sentiment you’ve thought of before as you daydreamed about your video game project that could be amazing if only you could make it reality. Of course, you could hire a small studio to make it for you, but most people don’t have a spare $1,000+ … Read more How to Make a Game – Making Video Games from Scratch
What exactly is a HTML5 game Let’s start from total zero. What is HTML5? that’s a tricky question. There is a official definition of HTML5, which simply stands for the latest revision of HTML (the markup language used all over the world to build websites), and the more hyped definition (what most people understand when … Read more How to Make a HTML5 Game
When it comes to game development, choosing the right game engine for your game can make or break the entire experience. There are also a lot of factors to consider: What kind of game are you trying to make? Is your game 2D or 3D? How experienced are you? How vibrant is the engine or … Read more Best Game Engines of 2020
Godot 4.0 is the next major update for the Godot game engine. In January 2018, Godot 3.0 was released which introduced many new features such as a new rendering engine and improved asset pipelines. With the release of Godot 4.0 being aimed for mid-2020, similar major advancements are to be expected. Vulkan Rendering Engine One … Read more Godot 4.0 Tutorials – Complete Guide
At some point during the game development and game design process, you’re going to be faced with a terrifying prospect: having to have another person experience the game that you’ve made. It’s never an easy thing to put yourself out there like that, but it’s an important step to take if you have plans to … Read more How to Playtest your Game – Game Design Tips
You can access the full course here: Discover SFML for C++ Game Development Handling User Interactions There are many ways in which a user can interact with your program from pressing buttons, to opening and closing windows, and even simple events like moving a mouse. Each of these interactions triggers an event which we capture … Read more How to Handle User Interactions with SFML
You can access the full course here: Discover SFML for C++ Game Development Drawing Sprites We’ve seen how to draw a basic shape but realistically, most of our games will use more than shapes. We will want to place graphics, icons, and other images into our games and we do so via Sprites. Setting up … Read more Drawing Sprites with SFML & C++
You can access the full course here: C++ Foundations While Loops Now that we can perform tests and execute code once, the next step is to be able to perform tests and execute code multiple times as long as some condition continues to be true. For this, we use loops. Loops provide a way to … Read more Learn to use Loops in C++
You can access the full course here: C++ Foundations Vectors Arrays aren’t great when we need a list of data that will change in size, i.e. we will add elements to it or remove elements from it. For that, we can use a vector. It is a more functional version of an array that still … Read more A Guide to C++ Vectors
