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How To Draw Pixel Art

DameDev.tv

Rick Davidson & Tim Ruswick* are joined by Reece Geofroy to talk all things pixel art and how to get good at it. We also have a new Pixel Characters course from Reece, you can check that out here. You can also check out Reece’s pixel art game Monster Tribe on Steam. Anyone can get started with no prior knowledge.

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Top 10 Tools Every Game Developer Needs  

iXie gaming

Newbies and developers have always found it difficult in building tools for game development without using programming. However, there are now several online game production tools that enable game developers to rapidly and easily build games. This tool is unarguably the most common game development tool among developers.

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The Ultimate Assets and Sounds Humble Bundle

Game From Scratch

The Ultimate Assets and Sounds Humble Bundle is a collection of game development related assets from the GameDev Marketplaces. It consists primarily of pixel art graphic packs (character sprites, tiles and tilemaps and effects) as well as sound packs (ambient, foley effects, sfx and more).

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Top Emerging Free Game Development Tools and Trends!

Big Games

Buckle up, aspiring developers, because the barrier to entry just shrunk to the size of a pixel! We’re talking free game development software , mind-blowing technology, and trends hotter than a dragon’s breath. So, are you ready to unleash your inner game developer? Let’s jump in!

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Cocos Shader Tutorial 1.0 - about UV

Cocos

The vertical axes of textures and picture pixels is shown above, when sampling textures in shaders, that is from top to bottom, which is top-right corner. This is consistent with how most image file formats store pixel data, and with how most graphics APIs work (including DirectX, Vulkan, Metal, WebGPU, but not OpenGL).

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Godot XR progress update June 2021

Mircosoft Game Dev

Mobile GPUs are very different from desktop GPU, to make better use of limited access to fast memory mobile GPUs use a tile based architecture. This means that the render buffer is divided into smaller tiles. All geometry is processed first while the GPU keeps track of which triangles need to be rendered to each tile.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

macOS: Fix driver crash when enabling per-pixel transparency on M1 macs ( GH-55464 ). Tiles: Fix TileSet editor workspace breaking ( GH-55059 ). Tiles: Only add light occlusion for visible TileMaps ( GH-54435 ). Tiles: Fix selecting next/previous subtile in TileSet editor ( GH-55261 ). which fixes that issue.

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