Game Programming Adventures

 I took the day to work on my home brews rather than tutorials. I put up a video of my demo of my version of Shadow Monsters as well as the demo version. You can find the details on the My Project page of the blog, I linked to the artists that I used from […]

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 I have published tutorial 22 in the MonoGame tutorial series Shadow Monsters to my Google Drive. This tutorial covers adding in a character generator to the game so the player can choose their character. You can find the link to the tutorial on my MonoGame Tutorials page. You can also open the PDF using this […]

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 I’ve been working on tutorial 22 in the shadow monsters series. I’m about half way done with it. This one covers creating a text box and a character generator. I will also fix a problem with resizing content based on screen resolution. I was doing integer division instead of floating point division when calculating scales. […]

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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.

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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 […]

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 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.

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 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 […]

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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 […]

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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.

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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.

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