So, I’ve worked hard the past two nights on tutorial 07 in my new series, A Summoner’s Tale. Well, it wasn’t too hard last night because I had to be up very early. Tonight I made much more progress. However, there is one thing that isn’t very well-behaved. Once it is, it won’t take much …
New MonoGame Tutorial – Summoner’s Tale 06
I did end up finishing tutorial six in my MonoGame series: A Summoner’s Tale. This tutorial focused on fixing some tearing that was happening when rendering controls. Also, it added the last important control needed in creating the editor, a text box. I may add a check box during the next tutorial, as I use …
A Summoner’s Tale Tutorial 06 – Update
I have not yet finished tutorial six in the A Summoner’s Tale series. However, I did work on it and made some progress on it. I would say I’m about a third of the way through it. I will be adding a text box for text input. That works splendidly but is not written up. …
New MonoGame Tutorial – Summoner’s Tale 05
I was hard at work today on tutorial five, 05, in my A Summoner’s Tale series to my Google Drive. Like the last tutorial, this tutorial works on graphic user interface elements. It adds a new control to the project, a list box. It also adds forms that we will be using to create the …
A Summoner’s Tale Tutorial 04 Live
Today was a quiet day for me, so I spent some of the day working on tutorial 04 in my A Summoner’s Tale series. Well, I finished the tutorial and uploaded it to my Google Drive and the project. I have also pushed it to the GitHub repository. This tutorial adds in some GUI controls, …
A Summoner’s Tale Tutorial 03 Live
So, I had some extra time the past few days, and I will be posting the third tutorial in my A Summoner’s Tale tutorial shortly. This tutorial adds in the input manager and two game states. It demonstrates how to add a timer to the game and how to scroll the map. You can find …
New MonoGame Tutorial – A Summoner’s Tale 02
It is my last day off for the holiday season. I didn’t have anything planned, so I decided to work on tutorial 02 in my MonoGame tutorial series, A Summoner’s Tale. I have published that tutorial on Google Drive. Unlike what I planned, this tutorial does a bit of rendering. I implemented the tile engine …
New Tutorial Series – A Summoner’s Tale
First, Happy New Year! Last month I did a lot of programming on my projects for a change. While it was very fulfilling, something was missing. I couldn’t put my finger on what it was. Then, just after I posted my last blog post, it hit me. I’ve missed writing! I have done some writing …
Long Absence
Yes, I know it has been a long absence. I have been very busy with work, with little desire to work on game programming and tutorials. Recently, though, I have stepped back into game programming. I’ve been working on my version of Shadow Monsters. Game-play is about 75% complete. I’ve been working on the remaining …
Has it really been five months???
Wow, time really slipped away on me. I’ve been meaning to write more, but I keep getting side-tracked. I’m going to attempt to be more present on Game Programming Adventures. I don’t know how focused I will be on tutorials for the foreseeable future. I will try to do that more as well. What’s Next? …