Where to Find Great Game Assets?
It's a question I'm asked daily, Indie Game Developers just starting out their new side careers, Game Development Students, Professionals we're all facing the same…
Tutorials
Game Maker, Unity, RPG Maker and general game development how-tos. 20 posts.
Why EVERY Video Game Has A Story (Even That Prototype You Made!)
Indie game development is more accessible now than ever before, and it inspires me to see the enthusiastic come out in droves to scream, "I could give that a shot!".…
Spike Trap Tutorial | RPG Maker VX Ace
In this tutorial we'll cover the basics of creating an advanced spike trap with external triggers, animations and time delayed spiking to give the game an 'action' kind…
Game Maker RPG Tutorial Episode 1
A video from the rm2kdev YouTube channel.
Game Maker RPG Tutorial Episode 2
In this video we begin to explore importing RPG Maker Tilesets efficiently into game maker studio, As well as some tile editing principals Using Layers, and Autotiles
NodeJS 5 Key Things I Wish I Knew Earlier
This post explains my struggles trying to get into writing NodeJs dealing with finding developer tools and support for library's all in preparation for my a new job…
How i built a full application in two days
Due to popular demand, I have provided a git link to the pleb stack https://github.com/rm2kdev/PLEB-Stack Creating a full application from scratch in two days is no…
Game Development Tips #3 - Adding fine details
A key part of being able to make your games have that 'polished detail' to them is the ability to learn what others are doing, take a look at the latest AAA title in the…
Game Development Tips #2 - Finishing Projects, Engine Choice
When starting a game development project or any project for that matter its a good idea to sit down first and evaluate your ideas. I find that writing down your thoughts…
Game Development Tips – Introduction
Hello and welcome everybody to this series of game development related blog posts. Over the years through major failure and minor success I have started to gain what I…
Game Development Tips #1 – Finding assets
When you begin a game project you might have this amazing idea of how your game will come out but it is extremely hard to visualize without matching assets. Thankfully…
Implementing Circular Gravity
Hi All So i released this video online and received a question from youtuber anic99a asking how i achieved this cool effect. Let me begin to elaborate the demo was…
Easy OAuth Login with ASP.Net
Sso I've been trying to get facebook and twitter login via oauth working in a simple webforms application with no success, there is virtually no usable documentation or…
Understanding Game Maker 1.2s LLVM
Yesterday YoYoGames CTO publicly released 2 APK files demonstrating the new LLVM compilation in game maker studio that should be coming in version 1.2. But what does…
Seed Based Matrix Randomization
So today i found myself in the odd circumstance that i needed a random value when given an X and Y coordinate naturally doing a dual for loop for each resulted in a…
The Best Tips For Game Developers
Hello All! This is a collection of my thoughts... raw and unedited after watching this you will come out a better developer i promise. I go over how to teach yourself to…
Game Design - Pay Attention To Detail
Hello everyone today i want to talk to you about attention to detail. this is the simplest technique we as developers can use to improve the quality of our games. Lets…
Creating Polished Games Part 2 - Cameras
Okay guys so I've recorded the second in my series of polishing your games without the assistance of an artist. In this video i talk about in game cameras. why having a…
Creating Polished Games Part 1 - Sprites and Inputs
Okay guys so I've recorded the first in my series of polishing your games without the assistance of an artist. In this video i talk about re sizing sprites, anti…
Creating Polished Games Introduction
Hi Guys, I'm going to write a few small articles and accompany them with some you tube videos. my focus here is going to be on things you can do to polish your games…