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Learning Guides
Once upon a time, game developent was relegated to arcade machines and home consoles. Now, we can design and build things specifically for our mobile devices, home consoles, and the web. These learning guides aim to get you started doing just that, with step-by-step tutorial series that guide you through the whole process from start to finish!
Making Your First Game
6 PostsEvery game developer has to start somewhere. Unfortunately, most devs' first games end up sitting in some corner of a hard drive, half-finished, forever.View Learning Guide...
Understanding Steering Behaviors
9 PostsSteering behaviors aim to help autonomous characters move in a realistic manner, by using simple forces that are combined to produce life-like, improvisational navigation around the characters' environment. They are not based on complex strategies involving path planning or global calculations, but instead use local information, such as neighbors' forces. This makes them simple to understand and implement, but still able to produce very complex movement patterns.View Learning Guide...
Basic 2D Platformer Physics
4 PostsThis series will cover how to create a simple and robust physics system for a platformer game.View Learning Guide...
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