Vector Math for 3D Computer Graphics
This is a tutorial on vector algebra and matrix algebra from the viewpoint of computer graphics. It covers most vector and matrix topics needed to read college-level computer graphics text books.
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Mark's Pixel Art Tutorial
A good collection of pixel art tutorials by some guy named Mark. These will help you improve your pixeling skillz.<
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Free Game Assets - Photo Quality Textures
Concrete, Brick wall, Cork board, and Manhole cover textures for use in your game.
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Moving A Sprite In A Continuous Map
Learn how to move a sprite in a continuous map. A continuous map is created by placing an image on screen as wallpaper. The image I will use to create the continuous map is a mountainous terrain, which implies slight slopes.
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RB Whitaker's XNA Tutorials
Whole bunch of XNA tutorial goodness.
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Movement Dynamics in 'Legend of Zelda'
Good breakdown of how the movement is designed in Legend of Zelda and what is done to make it feel better for gamers.
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2D Deformable Level
A quick overview on how to create deformable 2D level (similar to what is seen in games like Worms and Lemmings).
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Scaling retro sprites at build time
Scale up your sprites at runtime, helping you create a smoother pixelated experience.
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Pixel Spaceships
Random generator for pixel spaceships.
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Explosion Generator
Automagically generate lots of cool 2D explossion spritesheets for your game.
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XNA Developer’s Survival Kit
The purpose of the XDSK is to provide XNA Xbox indie game developers a list of resources to assist them with creating better games, custom engines and most of all to help them raise the bar for titles existing in the XBLIG Library.
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Free assets for your game!
Free assets you can use in your game and some words of warning about what you can and cannot use.
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Angles, 2D Vectors, and Trig Basics in Silverlight and XNA
This little set of math knowledge is really important for any game that has some basic physics in it, for example, Pong.
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How to tell if your Xbox garbage collection is too slow
Good article on how to determine how much CPU time is spent collecting garbage.
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How To Monitor XNA Performance at Run Time
The XNA Framework Remote Performance Monitor for Xbox 360 is a performance analysis tool included with the XNA Framework. This tool provides a user interface that lets you view performance data at application run time.
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nprof
NProf is a statistical profiler for .NET applications.
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Implementing Modular HLSL with RenderMonkey
One of the largest problems with getting shaders into a game seems to be the learning curve associated with shaders. Simply stated, shaders are not something that your lead graphics programmer can implement over the weekend.
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FX Composer 2.5
FX Composer 2.5 is a powerful integrated development environment for shader authoring.
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RenderMonkey
RenderMonkey is a rich shader development environment for both programmers and artists which facilitates the collaborative creation of real-time shader effects.
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Simply Explosion Maker (SEM)
The Simply Explosion Maker (SEM) is a simple program creates graphical explosions for 2D games. It is not a program to create absolute realistic particle emissions, says the developer, but it could be the only program of its kind yet.
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