Month: September 2020

There was a death in the family last night. I just can’t focus so I won’t be working on a tutorial today. When I return to work I will be creating a character generator for Shadow Monsters rather than just creating a hard coded character.

Busy  Labor Day for me. I didn’t work directly on a tutorial. I worked on my game that Shadow Monsters is based on. A lot of it was spend in the editor. Game programming is easy, creating content is hard work. I did make a lot of progress on my map though. It was challenging …

 I have uploaded tutorial four in my Eyes Of The Dragon tutorial series to my drive. This tutorial covers adding game settings and handling different screen resolutions than the base resolution. You can find the tutorial on the Eyes Of The Dragon page of the blog or you can use this direct link.

 Today was a wasted day. I was working on my XNA project and it randomly stopped working. I started getting platform unsupported errors. It’s not so much the code that’s the problem. It’s all the custom content that I created for it. It is quite maddening to be sure. I am going to have to …

I have just uploaded tutorial twenty one in the Shadow Monsters tutorial series. The tutorial covers editing shadow monsters in the editor and encrypting the data. I also create some now moves for each of the starting avatars. You can find the tutorial on the MonoGame Tutorials page of my web site or you can …

I’ve been working on tutorial twenty one in the Shadow Monsters tutorial series. I’m about half way through it.  It covers creating shadow monsters in the editor and encrypting the output. I should finish it up tomorrow. After this one I will be working on an Eyes Of The Dragon tutorial.

I have just uploaded tutorial three in the Eyes of the Dragon series to my web site. The tutorial covers adding in three game states. You can find the tutorial on the Eyes of the Dragon page of the blog. You can also find the tutorial at this direct link.

I have published the second tutorial in my reboot of my Eyes Of The Dragon tutorials in MonoGame. This tutorial creates the tile engine and renders a map. You can find the tutorial on the Eyes Of The Dragon page of my web site. You can also use this direct link.

 I have just added tutorial twenty in the Shadow Monsters tutorial series. The tutorial makes some improvements to the game and adds in sound. You can find the tutorial on the MonoGame Tutorials page of the web site or you can use this direct link.

 I have published the first tutorial in my reboot of my Eyes Of The Dragon in MonoGame. This tutorial creates the basic projects and adds some of the core components. You can find the tutorial on the Eyes Of The Dragon page of my web site. You can also use this direct link.