http://gametuto.com Game tutorials for smart beginners and meek geeks Sun, 23 May 2010 20:01:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en http://gametuto.com/please-vote-for-erasmusucom/ http://gametuto.com/please-vote-for-erasmusucom/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:08:22 +0000 Javier López http://gametuto.com/?p=250 http://gametuto.com/please-vote-for-erasmusucom/feed/ http://gametuto.com/indie-game-development-vanguard/ http://gametuto.com/indie-game-development-vanguard/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:50:21 +0000 Javier López http://gametuto.com/?p=239 Are you an Indie Game Developer? If the answer is yes you're already part of the most important artist vanguard of current days. Impressionists began as a loose association in 1860. Radicals in their time, early Impressionists broke the rules of academic painting. That's exactly what Indie Game Developers are doing right now: breaking the rules that the rusty and unimaginative game industry think games should have. Join us! Join the Indie Game Development Vanguard! You can change the meaning of Art by making indie games! Are Games Art? Hell, yeah!]]> http://gametuto.com/indie-game-development-vanguard/feed/ http://gametuto.com/in-game-c-map-editor-tutorial-with-indielib-engine-that-dosent-use-tiles-but-pieced-images-like-in-braid-or-aquaria-games/ http://gametuto.com/in-game-c-map-editor-tutorial-with-indielib-engine-that-dosent-use-tiles-but-pieced-images-like-in-braid-or-aquaria-games/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:31:35 +0000 Javier López http://gametuto.com/?p=181 We are going to learn how to create an in game map editor that dosen't use tiles, but directly backdrop images that you can translate, tint, rotate, scale, etc, in different parallax layers and camera zooming. You can have several tilesets and you can of course to save / load the maps using XML files. This type of editor is used in games like Braid or Aquaria. For this tutorial we are going to use IndieLib C++ 2d engine, because its entity system is great for having graphical objects which attributes can be modified in real time. And we are going to do it with style, using graphics from Lost Garden prototyping challenges and Aquaria game.]]> http://gametuto.com/in-game-c-map-editor-tutorial-with-indielib-engine-that-dosent-use-tiles-but-pieced-images-like-in-braid-or-aquaria-games/feed/ http://gametuto.com/game-engines-indielib-25d-engine-using-c-plus-plus-for-rapid-game-development/ http://gametuto.com/game-engines-indielib-25d-engine-using-c-plus-plus-for-rapid-game-development/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:12:58 +0000 Javier López http://gametuto.com/?p=152 "IndieLib is a c++ 2.5d engine for game development and fast game prototyping in a really easy way. Internally it uses Direct3d for hardware acceleration, but doesn't use DirectDraw or ID3DXSprite, it directly draws textures on polygons. The engine is focused in fast 2d rendering, but also allows you to use 3d models. The main IndieLib features are..."]]> http://gametuto.com/game-engines-indielib-25d-engine-using-c-plus-plus-for-rapid-game-development/feed/ http://gametuto.com/tetris-tutorial-in-c-render-independent/ http://gametuto.com/tetris-tutorial-in-c-render-independent/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:33:29 +0000 Javier López http://gametuto.com/?p=8 We are going to learn how to create a Tetris clone from scratch using simple and clean C++. And this will take you less than an hour! This is the perfect tutorial for beginners. Just enjoy it and leave a comment if you want me to explain something better. I know my English sucks, so if you see some mistakes, please, tell me. Let's go!]]> http://gametuto.com/tetris-tutorial-in-c-render-independent/feed/