My Game Programming Adventures including projects and tutorials
Eyes of the Dragon 3.0 Tutorial 6, 7 and 8 I had a busy and productive afternoon! I have finished porting tutorials 6, 7 and 8 in the Eyes of the Dragon XNA tutorials to MonoGame. In the process I made a few minor updates so that they are a bit better. The tutorials can […]
Fifth Eyes of the Dragon 3.0 Tutorial I wasn’t going to work on a tutorial, however I did. So, I have posed the fifth Eyes of the Dragon 3.0 tutorial to the web site. This tutorial continues work on the tile engine that we will be using in the game. You can find the link […]
Ninth MonoGame For The Absolute Beginner I have just posted the ninth MonoGame For The Absolute Beginner tutorial to the web site. As I’ve discussed it is another complete game. This time I ported my old XNA Asteroids to MonoGame. It is on the longer side this time so read it when you have some […]
Fourth Eyes of the Dragon 3.0 MonoGame Tutorial I uploaded the fourth Eyes of the Dragon 3.0 MonoGame tutorial to the web site. This tutorial begins with the tile engine that will be used for rendering the world. Download the tutorial from the Eyes of the Dragon 3.0 page of the web site or download […]
MonoGame For The Absolute Beginner Eight I have just finished uploading MonoGame For The Absolute Beginner Eight to the blog. In this tutorial we create our first fully functioning game. It is a brick breaking game similar to the classic game Breakout, one of the first video games. You can download the tutorial from the […]
I did take the time to work on a tutorial for a while today. I didn’t do Eyes of the Dragon like I was thinking yesterday.What I did work on the next MonoGame For The Absolute Beginner tutorial. As I mentioned before this tutorial is the first full game and it is a brick breaking […]
I have just uploaded the fourth tutorial in the Dragon’s Claw tutorial series to the blog. This tutorial continues on with training troops and processing the queues of troops to be trained. It also creates a NodeJS package to call the server every hour to process the queue. You can find the tutorial on the […]
Today I worked a bit on tutorials, Dragon’s Claw. I made some progress and I should wrap it up tomorrow. I ran into a problem though and I can’t seem to be able to resolve it. My project seems to be missing two files and I can’t find them any where. It is quite mysterious. […]
Eyes of the Dragon and A Summoner’s Tale I found copies of the PDFs of my old Eyes of the Dragon and A Summoner’s Tale series of tutorials. I’m going to add them to the site but it is going to take some work, there are 50+ of them. I might be able to rip […]
Drawing a 3D Model With MonoGame Tutorial seven in my MonoGame For The Absolute Beginner tutorial series is now live. Drawing a 3D model with MonoGame is the focus of this tutorial. It also demonstrates rotating the model on a 3 axes simultaneously and independently of each other. You can find the tutorial on the […]