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I am happy that the brothers David and Richard Darling, who started their company in the mid-80’s, were honored for their “services to the computer games industry”. They have blazed a trail for independent game developers to follow, and I am truly grateful to them for their pioneering efforts as bedroom [...]
John Hattan has written a review of Express Animator on GameDev.net, and Flex SDK / Silverlight developers who do not have access to the corresponding designer’s tools (Flash / Expression Blend) might find his review interesting. Express Animator, as stated in the product name, is a tool that allows you to make animations, and publish [...]
A great article called Tools of the Trade has just been posted on MochiLand. It gives a list of software and libraries which you can use to generate sound effects and music for your games.
Among the different aspects of game development, I think I’m weakest at sound matters. This is something that has to change [...]
One of the main reasons why people aren’t able to make their own Flash games is because the development environment is expensive. Currently, a copy of Flash CS3 Professional costs US$699, an amount which most people can’t just pull out of their wallet (although I think that this price is very reasonable, considering the product’s [...]
Herder, a one button game, now in Flash!
I haven’t posted anything in a very, very long time, and I apologize for this. Recently, I have had time to pursue game programming again, and as a result, I was able to learn programming Flash games using the free Flex SDK, a programmer-oriented SWF development tool from [...]
Play Herder Now!
Hi everyone. I know that it’s been a very, very long time since I last posted. I’ve been doing some thinking about the direction that this site should take, and I was able to make some “preliminary decisions” in the process, which I hope to explain more in a future post.
In the [...]
Arinoid now has sound! I think that sound plays a very important role in the overall game experience, and I hope that you will all like this minor update.
Download Arinoid with Sound. Requires Python and Pygame.
The sounds were taken from Flashkit, which I think is a fantastic resource for game developers looking for free sound [...]
Torque X Notes at scriptedfun.com
Version 0.1 - June 13, 2007
This is a very rough guide/outline that I put together for my personal use to help me understand TGBX better and faster - you may or may not find this useful :). I don’t claim to have come up with all of this - most, if [...]
Will McGugan has just posted some Pygame code that will allow subpixel rendering, which should allow Pygame developers to render smooth looking graphics using software rendering only. I haven’t tried the code yet, although it says in the post that the rendering should be as fast as ordinary blits, but more memory will be taken [...]
http://topsecret.acclaim.com/
I’m trying to beat a deadline, and need the space to submit an entry, so I made this entry for me to be able to upload something.
I’m sorry if that previous paragraph didn’t make sense - I’ll add details later.
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