Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Game Programming Basics


This week, I talked a bit about how games work by walking through a simple project in my favorite beginner's game engine, Love2D!  This is something that I've given talks about before, but we think it's worth revisiting every once in a while.  Hopefully it was as helpful to you as it would have been to me a couple years ago!




Now, for those of you who weren't able to make it, there are unfortunately no slides I can give you this time, as it was all done in the form of a live demonstration.  But luckily, we have something even better than slides... friendship! I mean, links!

The engine I used, Love2D, can be downloaded here for free!

If you want to start learning it for yourself, try this tutorial, or jump into the Love2D wiki!

If you want to revisit what we made in the meeting, you can download that here!

Finally, the "finished" version of my Asteroids clone (including actual asteroids!  And multiple bullets!) can be downloaded right here!

Weekly Announcements

  • This Saturday at 1:30pm we're hosting a Valentine's Game Mini-Jam!  Come, hang out, and make the dating simulator of your (or someone else's) dreams.
  • Mark your calendars, because next Friday is the next Game Night!  

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