In RPGs, platformers, and many other types of game, one common mechanic is for enemies to drop items the moment they are killed. In this tutorial, you'll...

Cross-platform games all have one thing in common: they all need to deal with a multitude of game input devices (controllers), and dealing with those input...

Roguelikes have been in the spotlight recently, with games like Dungeons of Dredmor, Spelunky, The Binding of Isaac, and FTL reaching wide audiences and...

Spritesheets have been used in games for a long time. Classic games such as Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and even modern games like Cut the Rope have...

A finite-state machine is a model used to represent and control execution flow. It is perfect for implementing AI in games, producing great results without a...

In this tutorial, I'll help you to create levels for any game genre and make designing levels much easier. You're going to learn how to create your first...

For many, procedural generation is a magical concept that is just out of reach. Only veteran game developers know how to build a game that can create its own...

Playing a multiplayer game is always fun. Instead of beating AI-controlled opponents, the player must face strategies created by another human being. This...

So far, we've determined base and derived stats for the hero of our mock game, Final Trigger. We then gave our spiky-haired protagonist a female companion,...

Procedural content generators are bits of code written into your game that can create new pieces of game content at any time - even when the game is running!...

In this tutorial, we'll build on the original Creating Isometric Worlds primer, and learn about implementing pickups, trigger tiles, level swapping, path...

In this tutorial I will explain vector field pathfinding and its advantages over more traditional pathfinding algorithms, such as Dijkstra's. A basic...