Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Buckle up, aspiring developers, because the barrier to entry just shrunk to the size of a pixel! Think AI that helps you build landscapes, real-time 3D sculpting like magic, and coding made accessible even for total newbies. Grab your controller because this blog is your cheat code for building the next gaming masterpiece – for free!

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The most commonly used method involves rendering the camera to a RenderTexture (RT) and then displaying it on a Sprite. Taking inspiration from community experts @gamemcu and @iwae for the ultimate solution, we can use code to directly display the post-processed RT rendered by the camera onto the final window.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

This drastically reduces drawcall-related bottlenecks and can give massive gains in specific scenarios (drawing lots of sprites, big TileMaps, text rendering). Top: 10,000 Sprites with a randomized modulate and position. Bottom: 8 layers of a screen full of "A"s with two Sprites intermixed. Can you spot the difference?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 4, 2017

A method in a Native script is just native machine code. You can call third party libraries from that code as well. When C# will be supported optionally, you'll be able to call C# code as well. The other way is like the opposite direction: a Native script can also access code from third party libraries. you can load them.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It’s going to be a game that looks a little bit like a snake but is not exactly the same thing, partially because of coding limitations. Lesson 2: Creating Our Snake Summary In this lesson, we start building the Snake game from scratch, beginning with setting up a new project and creating a sprite for our snake.

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Retro Game Coders

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Mhz, which is closer to the clock speed of the Amiga and Atari ST than the Atari or C64, and a lot faster than most of us are used to when coding retro games. Apparently the chip can even be overclocked to 16 MHz, but on the Neo6502 it is running at 6.25 Olimex UEXT connector Neo6502 Specifications: W65C02 processor clocked at 6.25

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2016

To explain the idea of how shaders work, let's consider a very simple shader for drawing a sprite to the screen. Our sprite is 32x32 pixels in size, and it must be drawn at some position. The following OpenGL code sends the sprite to the shader for drawing: OpenGL Commands. Vertex Program. Multiply by 2.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2018

A lot of text and no code so far, so here you go! Here is a link to a file to show what "low level class registering" might look like in future (this is already working code). With UBOs, this comes natural, and very similar code exists in the GLES3 renderer. Seeing the code. Get the next available thing to draw.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

The engine should be able to render and simulate 200+ lightweight game objects -- frame-animated sprites with simple collision, no fancy physics or shaders. I also liked how Haxe has decent autocompletion support in VS Code, which reduces (but doesn't quite eliminate) all the documentation hunting. and no WASM.)

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The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 17, 2024

It holds a single sprite that is filled with white pixels. You may also wish to find ways to identify what each index represents in a way that can be shared among your code, such as an enum. Getting Started Feel free to continue from where we left off, or download and use this project here.

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