My Game Programming Adventures including projects and tutorials
Pokemon inspired tutorial series using the MonoGame framework.
Learn MoreEyes of the Dragon is top down RPG tutorial series based on the MonoGame framework.
Learn MoreI’m planning on doing another tutorial. I’ve been looking at classic games from when I was younger, and all the time I spent in the arcade. There are a number that I want to make a clone of. Games like Pole Position, Pac Man, Q*Bert, Dig Dug and more. What’s Next As title eludes to, […]
I have just published part two of my tutorial on creating a Frogger clone with MonoGame. You can find the tutorial on my Google Drive. This tutorial adds snakes and demonstrates how to create levels using JSON. If you are cloning the repository from GitHub, you will want to clone the Frogger-2 branch. What’s Next? […]
I have just finished uploading my tutorial on creating a Frogger clone with MonoGame. I ended the tutorial, planning on finishing it in a Part Two, because it was getting to be more of an eBook than a PDF. You can find the tutorial on my Google Drive, here. The tutorial covers creating the frog, […]
Well, I started work on a Frogger clone tutorial. I’ve got the frog moving around the screen. I’ve added the road and the vehicles for the frog to avoid. If the frog runs into a car, the game resets. I’ve just started on adding the parts to the water, like the logs and the turtles. […]
I have just finished uploading a new tutorial dedicated to the Snake Game. This is another tutorial in my classic game tutorial series. You can find the PDF at this direct link. What’s Next? Well, I’m thinking about that. I’m thinking of doing another clone of a classic game, not sure which one yet. If […]
I have just finished part one of my Space Invaders tutorial. It is a fully functional game. The one thing I did not implement was the shields. I need to come up with a way to implement them. I have a few ideas that I will give a try. You can find the tutorial at […]
I’ve been working on the next tutorial in my classic games tutorial series. This tutorial makes a few changes to the classic game. Instead of the field resetting once all the aliens have been destroyed, new rows of aliens show up. I have just started work on the aliens dropping bombs on the player. Once […]
I have added a new page to the blog devoted to tutorials for creating clones of classic games. The first new tutorial is for Pong, one of the oldest video games. You can find the tutorial on the Classic Games page of the blog. Since it is also a classic, I added a link to […]
First, I am back. I was away because of computer problem. I re-built my computer and it would not work. I tried three different motherboards and none of them would work. They would all give me the beep code that the memory wasn’t right. So, I tried three different sets of RAM. The beeps continued. […]
I have just finished uploading a new basic tutorial on MonoGame. It covers getting set up with MonoGame in Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code. It also talks about key game programming concepts instead of making a game. You can find the link to the tutorial on the MonoGame Tutorial page of my site. What’s […]