Math for Java Game Programmers, Getting Started with the Vector Dot Product
This lesson is the first part of a two-part mini-series on the vector dot product. By the time you finish both parts, you will learn the fundamentals... more »
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5 Things to Do When You’re Stuck Developing Your Game
We’ve all had those moments, when you have no inspiration for creating another game, or when you don’t know what to do next in your current project.... more »
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Conduit for Flash Pixel Bender
Adobe's new Pixel Bender technology in Flash Player 10 is great because it allows totally custom realtime graphics filters and fast parallel... more »
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Simple Tic-Tac-Toe AI in JavaScript
Demonstration of simple Tic-Tac-Toe AI written completely in Java Script using Minimax method. Source code provided :)
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Pointers and Vectors and Lists, OH MY!
The two questions that I needed to solve were: 1. How do I store these collections of information? 2. How do I reference... more »
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What Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues can Teach us About Game Development Part 2
We all know who Benjamin Franklin is, one of the greatest Americans in history. His brilliant ideas have survived the centuries without any signs of... more »
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What Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues can Teach us About Game Development Part 1
We all know who Benjamin Franklin is, one of the greatest Americans in history. His brilliant ideas have survived the centuries without any signs of... more »
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Bejeweled JavaScript game
Playable game in 200 lines of html/javascript. No any 3d libraries or macromedia flash. Has smooth movement and fade effects. Also there is some... more »
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Unreal Engine modding (part one)
An introduction to Unreal modding and a video of an example.
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Project Darkstar Developer Challenge
Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced that it is sponsoring the Project Darkstar Developer Challenge. This contest for independent developers and... more »
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Math for Java Game Programmers, Our First 3D Game Program
You've been working hard if you've been studying these tutorials from the very beginning. It's time to kick back and have a little fun with what you... more »
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What's Holding Back Game AI Most?
A little earlier, I posted an editorial which speculated that the problems we had within the field of game AI weren’t necessarily technical. Most of... more »
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jMonkeyEngine: Setting-Up Netbeans 6.1 for JME 2.0
A lot changed with jME 2's installation(More the downloading with SVN). I will make a new guide here.
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Building a Space Strategy Game with Ruby on Rails - Part I
This article documents the first step in building a new strategy web game. The design phase is a critical phase which often gets overlooked by... more »
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Zune Game Development - Getting Started
Remember that Game Studio software Microsoft released a while ago that let anyone develop games for the XBox 360? Believe it or not, they just... more »
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jMonkeyEngine Related AI Project AIGAMA
As AI is still a new field, there are many different approaches. Here we won't go deep into the theory behind AI. If you have no knowledge of AI you... more »
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Android: Divide and Conquer
Years ago I was addicted to a simple game that I played on my then state-of-the-art Pentium-75. In this game, balls would bounce around, and I would... more »
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Work on open source and make your dreams come true
Working on open source gives programmers the opportunity to work on the type of software they really want to while building up experience so they can... more »
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And the Best JVM to Play Draughts Against is...
...GCJ, Excelsior JET, or HotSpot, depending on (a) whether you want an easy win and (b) whether you have a 32-bit or 64-bit system.
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Flash vs Silverlight: Simple Drawing
With the advantage of rendering speed, Flash and Silverlight can provide a richer experience in drawing and image filtering. Moreover, by using the... more »
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Java Sudoku Solver
The Sudoku puzzle consists of a grid of 9x9 cells. This 81-cell grid is further subdivided into nine subgrids of 3x3 cells. A few of the cells are... more »
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gameQuery - Games plugin for jQuery
gameQuery is a jQuery plug-in to help make javascript games easier to develop by adding some simple mechanism and commodity. It's still in a very... more »
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Delta3D Open Source Game Engine 2.1.0 Released!
A well-supported open source project, Delta3D is a full-function game engine appropriate for a wide variety of modeling & simulation applications... more »
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Simple Linq Sudoku Solver
A simple solution to resolve a Sudoku Grid, using Linq.
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The Disastrous Mistakes that Game Developers MUST Avoid - Part 2
We, as people, all make mistakes. We, as game developers, make mistakes as well. Some of these mistakes are trivial and don’t bring upon us too much... more »
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