GameDev
Wyoming Gamedev March 2018 Resources
This month we talked about art and art production in gamedev! Here are many of the tools and resources I mentioned during the talk… I mentioned a bit about the history of game art. Some Read more…
GameDev
Masteroid v0.7.0 Betelgeuse Release Notes
I was unhappy with the performance of the last version or two of Masteroid. I’ve added things over the last 2-3 releases that have had small performance impacts and those have resulted in some frame Read more…
GameDev
Using Render Targets for Dynamic Textures
Masteroid sectors are built up using layered sprites. There are star sprites, clouds, planets, etc. These are colorized, rotated and scaled to give each sector a unique look. All of those sprites add up and Read more…
GameDev
Masteroid 2017 Retrospective
I started working on Masteroid on April 24th, 2017 while at a small conference hosted by the creator of the FlatRedBall game engine. I got sick on the way to the conference and was miserable Read more…
GameDev
Dynamic Color Blending
In the v0.6.0 update for Masteroid I overhauled all weapon sprites. As with most things in Masteroid, Weapons are mostly driven by data (JSON) and were originally dynamically colored at runtime using Modulate blending. Modulate Read more…