Is your game not running fast enough (or do you need more room to squeeze in features)? Check out some basic structures and mindsets to utilize for making...

Players are tired of fighting against random number generators. How do we fix this? Take a look at some methods that can make situations utilizing random...

Read about the basic building blocks of a multiplayer economy, and how designers keep them balanced.

We create a simple procedural generator that will allow us to make infinite nested “lock and key” puzzles. We discuss the various uses for procedural...

A common way to organize your game objects is by putting them all into one big sorted list. This can be very inefficient once you have a large game world...

Smoke or fluid effects look cool and can give your game a realistic edge, but what if you want to create something more dynamic or custom? In this tutorial,...

In this part of our series, we'll introduce a new mechanic to the character: ledge grabbing. We'll also make appropriate changes to both the pathfinding...

In this tutorial, we'll use the platformer pathfinding algorithm we've been building to power a bot that can follow the path by itself; just click on a...

In this tutorial, we'll extend our grid-based platformer pathfinder so that it can cope with characters that take up more than one cell of the grid.

In this short tutorial, we'll extend our platformer pathfinder so that it can deal with one-way platforms: blocks that the character can jump through and...

Now that we have a good idea of how to modify an A* pathfinding algorithm to work for platformers, it's time to actually code it. Rather than build it from...

In this tutorial, I'll explain a broad overview of how to modify a standard A* pathfinding algorithm to work for platformers by taking into account the way...