Game Design & Development Tutorials

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Create a Space Shooter With PlayCanvas: Part 1
PlayCanvas is a free and open-source 3D engine for web games. This tutorial will cover the basics of the engine while putting together a simple space shooter...
Omar Shehata
30 Mar 2017
3D
How to Create Artistic Backgrounds From Photos With These 3 Photoshop Actions
Backgrounds are an important element for many designers. In this tutorial, I'll be showing you how to create three dramatically different backgrounds from a...
Melody Nieves
27 Mar 2017
Photoshop Actions
Procedural Generation for Simple Puzzles
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...
Kyle Speaker
21 Mar 2017
Platform Agnostic
Create a Space Shooter With PlayCanvas: Part 2
PlayCanvas is a free & open source 3D engine for web games. This tutorial will cover the basics of the engine while putting together a simple space...
Omar Shehata
21 Mar 2017
3D
Getting Started in WebGL, Part 4: WebGL Viewport and Clipping
In this article, we continue writing our WebGL boilerplate code. We are still preparing our canvas for WebGL drawing, this time taking viewports and...
Omar El Sayyed
9 Mar 2017
Shaders
Getting Started in WebGL, Part 3: WebGL Context and Clear
In the previous articles, we learned how to write simple vertex and fragment shaders, make a simple webpage, and prepare a canvas for drawing. In this...
Omar El Sayyed
8 Mar 2017
Shaders
Getting Started With Crafty: The Game Loop
This tutorial will teach you about the implementation of the game loop in Crafty.In this part, you will learn how to use the game loop in Crafty to...
Monty Shokeen
20 Feb 2017
2D Games
Getting Started With Crafty: Controls, Events, and Text
In this tutorial you will learn how to move elements around using specific components created for that purpose.
Monty Shokeen
17 Feb 2017
Game Engines
Getting Started With Crafty: Entities
In the last tutorial, you learned about the basics of entities and how they are the building blocks in your game. In this tutorial, you will go beyond the...
Monty Shokeen
16 Feb 2017
Game Engines
Getting Started With Crafty: Introduction
In this series, you will learn about Crafty. It is a JavaScript-based game engine that you can use to easily create 2D HTML5 games.
Monty Shokeen
15 Feb 2017
Game Engines
New Camera Features in Phaser
Introduced in the 2.4.7 version of Phaser, the new camera features look really interesting and it's worth checking them out. In this tutorial you'll see how...
Andrzej Mazur
9 Feb 2017
Phaser
The Four Elements of Game Design: Part 2
What is a game, and what matters when designing one? A look at the most fundamental aspects of game design—the elements which are vital to creating an...
Darran Jamieson
26 Jan 2017
Game Development