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Spring RTS Engineering Internals
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Indie tutorial: Organizing your work as a team
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Spring RTS Engineering Internals
Published in APIs and Tools
By Issam Lahlali - Uses an open source RTS engine to demonstrate how the CppDepend tool can be used to break down and understand a game's code design
For a Career in Gaming, are Game Design Degrees Worth It?
Published in Breaking Into the Industry
By Brice Morrison - Many students and parents believe that if they are interested in a career in games, then the best thing for them to pursue is a degree in “Game Des...
Building an In-Game Store for the First Time? Here are the 4 Keys to Success
Published in Game Design
By Yaniv Nizan - So you have a great concept for a mobile game and you have heard that free games with in app purchase is the way to go but you are not sure where t...
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MVC and CBES as it Relates to Game Programming UNDER REVIEW
May 08 2013 07:04 AM | Posted By Adam Martin
in Game Programming
Learn about the MVC (Model, View, Control) paradigm and how it relates to being used with a CBES (component based entity system.) This article is about programming in a general sense and not a specific language or system.
Tagged With: cbes programming mvc
Pathfinding concepts, the basics
May 07 2013 07:18 PM | Posted By Michael Grenier
in Game Programming
Understanding the basic concepts of efficient and accurate pathfinding.
Tagged With: ai pathfinding unity3d
Indie tutorial: Starting a project and forming a team UNDER REVIEW
May 07 2013 11:08 AM | Posted By ANtY
in Production and Management
Despite what you may think, going out and finding your team may not be the best first step to creating your game. Rather, creating the game should be
Tagged With: indie team management startup
Modern Garbage Collectors under the Hood UNDER REVIEW
May 07 2013 07:15 AM | Posted By Jonas Schwammberger aka Bluefirehawk
in General Programming
More and more Applications are written in a language that manages its memory with a Garbage Collector, since that is what the cool kids are doing now. But weirdly, even experienced programmers seem to have a distorted image of the good and bad sides of the Garbage Collector. In this Article, I try to show how modern Garbage Collector work and discuss some common misconceptions.
Tagged With: garbage collection memory management tutorial c++
Building a First-Person Shooter Part 1.0: Creating a Room UNDER REVIEW
May 06 2013 11:20 AM | Posted By Chris Vossen
in Game Programming
In this lesson we make use of the Leadwerks engine and learn to use brushes, materials, UV manipulations, and lights as we build a room for our first-person shooter game.
Tagged With: leadwerks leadwerks 3 tutorial fps design level design level editor mobile ios android materials lights lightmap uv brushes texture assets
Non-Linear Story Lines UNDER REVIEW
May 06 2013 07:05 AM | Posted By BrendanL.K
in Game Design
Take a simple concept of summarizing stories with lines, and blow it out of perspective. Make your stories more interesting with non-linear stories.
Tagged With: story non-linear design writing
Practical Cross Platform SIMD Math: Part 2
May 03 2013 07:06 PM | Posted By AllEightUp
in Game Programming
In order to finish the discussion of practical SIMD usage, it is important to put the code into use and also discuss some performance issues. Finally, in order to make the code really useful, debugging tools will be added for catching errors as quickly as possible.
Tagged With: c++ c++11 simd math
Getting started with Team Foundation Service: Part 2 UNDER REVIEW
May 02 2013 07:05 AM | Posted By Oli Wilkinson
in General Programming
Wraps up all the basics of using TFS for builds, tests, bug tracking, new feature requests and a practical demonstration of continuous integration
Tagged With: tfs visual studio agile continuous integration unit testing
Retro Game Programming: How to Make Pong UNDER REVIEW
May 01 2013 11:30 AM | Posted By Ankur Sheel
in Game Programming
This article aims at introducing beginners to make a Pong Clone
Tagged With: pong classic game c++ directx 3d
The Programming Primer UNDER REVIEW
May 01 2013 07:38 AM | Posted By Dan Mayor
in General Programming
This article covers some basic programming theory that should help beginner level programmers to better understand what it is that programming is all about and what they are getting themselves into.
Tagged With: programming function method class data type variable
Getting started with Team Foundation Service: Part 1
Apr 30 2013 01:40 PM | Posted By Oli Wilkinson
in General Programming
This article discusses the reasons for using a source control and continuous integration system.It then shows you how to get started with Team Foundation Service - Microsoft's cloud-based service for agile planning, collaboration, source control and continuous integration.
Tagged With: tfs visual studio agile source control continuous integration
Swept AABB Collision Detection and Response
Apr 30 2013 12:51 PM | Posted By BrendanL.K
in Game Programming
Recognizing the problems with AABB and applying swept, broad-phase and various responses to make a more robust algorithm.
Math for Game Developers: Advanced Vectors UNDER REVIEW
Apr 30 2013 11:44 AM | Posted By Jorge "BSVino" Rodriguez
in Math and Physics
These videos cover dot products, cross products, euler angles, and box intersection as applied to game problems
Tagged With: dot product cross product euler angles box intersection
Data Structures for Pre-College Programmers: Choosing The Right Structure UNDER REVIEW
Apr 30 2013 09:33 AM | Posted By Bryan Wagstaff (frob)
in General Programming
This is part of a series of articles dealing with data structures for beginners. It covers choosing between the various data structures.
Math for Game Developers: Intro to Vectors
Apr 26 2013 11:26 PM | Posted By Jorge "BSVino" Rodriguez
in Math and Physics
A series of videos that visually explains and demonstrates various math concepts applied to game development
Tagged With: video math vectors cross product dot product
Game Development with Win32 and DirectX 11 - Part 01: The Basic Framework UNDER REVIEW
Apr 26 2013 11:27 AM | Posted By Josh Vega
in Game Programming
In this second lesson of this tutorial series, we'll start getting our hands dirty by setting up a Visual Studio project and writing our basic framework.
Tagged With: Win32 DirectX 11 C++ D3D11
Vectors and Matrices: A Primer
Apr 26 2013 07:55 AM | Posted By Phil Dadd
in Math and Physics
An introduction to using these mathematical equations in game development
Tagged With: vectors matrices math
Practical Cross Platform SIMD Math
Apr 26 2013 05:11 AM | Posted By AllEightUp
in General Programming
Supporting multiple target SIMD dialects is a painful chore. Intel made this quite difficult by continually adding a little here and there and ending up with 8+ different variations. This article will present a solution of leveraging SIMD without too many hassles.
Tagged With: C++ C language SIMD math cross platform C++ 11
Publishing Licenses
Apr 25 2013 08:30 PM | Posted By Michael Tanczos
in Gamedev.net Help
Articles written on Gamedev.net can be published under a number of different licensing options. The purpose of these licenses is to give a certain measure of protection to the author as well as anyone who may use the content of the article (or included code).
Tagged With: license
Notes on GameDev: Dane Olds
Apr 25 2013 08:24 PM | Posted By Elizabeth LaPensée
in Interviews
Interview with Dane Olds, who was a character artist that worked on Fallout 3
Tagged With: art interview character art
What You Are Worth to a Development Team
Apr 24 2013 04:44 PM | Posted By Dan Mayor
in GameDev.net Soapbox
This article discuses some opinionated findings related to the worth or values of game development team members.
Managing Decoupling Part 4: The ID Lookup Table
Apr 24 2013 11:28 AM | Posted By Niklas Frykholm
in Game Programming
Looks deeper into the advantages of using an ID lookup table and what data structures a system might use
Tagged With: engine design decoupling program organization systems
Dynamic 2D Soft Shadows
Apr 24 2013 09:10 AM | Posted By John "Orangy Tang" Campbell
in Graphics Programming and Theory
Describes an accurate method of generating soft shadows in a 2D environment on the fly
Tagged With: shadows 2d dynamic soft shadows real time
Notes on GameDev: Tamir Nadav
Apr 24 2013 07:52 AM | Posted By Elizabeth LaPensée
in Interviews
Interview with Tamir Nadav, then a designer at KingsIsle and a well-networked figure in the games industry
Tagged With: interview design
Pitch Your Game: Pitching Tips from a Game Industry Catcher
Apr 22 2013 10:24 AM | Posted By Joshua Dallman
in Business and Law
A veteran industry producer tells you what you need to do to get your pitch noticed by publishers
Tagged With: pitch funding tips