I have just finished sharing two new tutorials. One of the tutorials is on animation with web based games and the other is on animation in the MonoGame For The Absolute Beginner tutorial series. You can find the MonoGame For The Absolute Beginner tutorial on the MonoGame tutorials page of the website. It is also available at this direct link. The web game programming tutorial is available on the HTML5 page of the site or it can also be accessed using this direct link.

What’s Next

Now that the two animation tutorials are finished it will be back to porting the XNA tutorials to MonoGame. The next XNA tutorial is on items in the game and is based on the game instead of editors. I will be working on it over the next few days and should have it on the site tomorrow. After that I will continue on with porting XNA tutorials to MonoGame. I do plan to add animated sprites to the tile engine tutorials in the web programming tutorials.

My Projects

I will also be hunkering down on Quintessential Duels. I would like to see it on the Google Play Store before my birthday at the end of the month. What I need to work on most is the tutorial. I don’t like the way that it turned out. There are problems with the placement of the text and I’d like to make it dynamic rather than static.

Also, I will be working on play balance. Right now the early levels are too hard and the later levels are too easy. I will find a balance so that as the game progresses it gets hard and at the later levels it will take effort to win. I might also implement that if the player loses a duel they lose a card like if the player wins a duel they get to select a card from the AI. It will mean I will have to provide the player with a larger card pool in case they lose a lot in the early stages and fall below the 13 cards required for a deck. I might just leave it as it is because right now it works.

The Psibernetic Games website is another thing that I need to work on. I want to add a blog to it. Instead of using WordPress I am going to create a new blog platform with React at the front end and PHP at the back end.

Final Thoughts

I am happy with my progress on tutorials. Finishing these two tutorials was rewarding. I look forward to finishing more of them in the near future. Soon I will be writing new MonoGame RPG tutorials instead of just porting existing ones. Quintessential Duels is coming along and soon I will have it on the Google Play Store, itch.io and the Windows App Store. It will be completely free to play, with ads, but I hope if you find it entertaining you will click the donate button on itch.io when downloading it.

So, that’s it for today. I hope you enjoy the tutorials. If there is something you would like a tutorial on do not hesitate to leave a comment. I will do my best to do the subject justice.