When I first started game development, I thought the hardest part was starting it. I was wrong. It’s not thinking of a gameplay logic and acquiring graphics. It’s actually finishing the game! And developing all the little features and details that make the game feel polished. We’re at step Step 3 of the Flame and…

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code has come a long way from being just a source code editor (which it’s defined as). With the plugins and contributions it has become a full-fledged IDE supporting multiple workflows and technologies. I’ve been using it recently for all my development projects. Last week, I’ve been notified that there’s an update…

In this part of the tutorial series, we will focus on adding graphics and animation. We’ll pick up where we left off in the previous part where we have created an interactive-enough casual mobile game. The game will stay the same in features but with more movement and better graphics. Like the previous parts, there…

Open source software is a great concept. It brings out the best in people helping each other build something that can be used by anyone. That’s why it makes me happy when Microsoft announced that the Windows Calculator is now open source. When people ask me to teach them programming. I tell them there’s no…

The 2D game development tutorial is at a point where there are only boxes on the screen. In the next part, we’ll be adding some assets. Here’s a Langaw game assets preview. Just a quick post. Basically, the plan is to create five different types of flies. Each with different abilities. The images below show…

Have you ever wanted to develop video games? You’ve come to the right place. This is an on-going tutorial series on how to create your own 2D casual mobile game. This tutorial is a continuation of the previous part which is an introduction to game development targeted towards developers of any level. In this part,…

Game-making Tutorial with Flutter and Flame Series: Part 1 Why create a mobile game? Most people would agree that games are fascinating pieces of software. These people, including myself, have played lots of games and discovered a different world or reality in-game. Games can range from having simple and linear gameplay to really complex involving…

As bloggers, we all have down times. Work, family matters, writer’s block, anything could be the reason. It would really be awesome if there’s was something that updates our blogs for us when we can’t. Content Recycler does just that. Well, sort of. This plugin recycles your old posts, so they show up on the blog page…

Trailing slash on website URLs has a long history of debate whether it is good or bad practice. Should you put trailing slashes on your site’s URLs? Let me say it upfront. I prefer my URLs to be clean and without a slash at the end of it. [click_to_tweet tweet=”Trailing slashes just add an unnecessary…

I discovered Discord and noticed that its servers are great communities (so much better than Slack’s anyway). One of the technologies that I’m good at is WordPress so I joined an unofficial server for WordPress support. In there, I noticed that most of the chatter is some guy asking for help to some trivial (for me at…