Part of Minecraft's charm has always been its simple, blocky, pixelated aesthetic. With that said, it can be nice to change things up a bit, and Minecraft can look absolutely incredible with the ...

A desktop application (v1.8) for creating simple RPG-style games using your own images, photographs, or drawings as the in-game scenes. Rather than traditional tile-based map editors, this tool lets ...

Federal regulators have detected possible radioactive contamination in a second food product sent to the U.S. from Indonesia, even as recalls of potentially tainted shrimp continue to grow. The ...

Abstract: In this article, the Lightweight Java Gaming Library (LWJGL) is used to develop and implement a lightweight 2D gaming engine with an emphasis on GPU optimization. Sprite rendering, scene ...

To begin making your own visualizations, download flare and work through the tutorial below. Need more help? Visit the help forum (you’ll need a SourceForge login to post). Flare is open-source ...

In a previous tutorial, I walked you through the process of making your first “2D game.” We built a simple script which would let a character sprite bounce around the screen. From there, I insinuated ...

There are plenty of ways to create a game for Android and one important way is to do it from scratch in Android Studio with Java. This gives you the maximum control over how you want your game to look ...

I had my first computer programming experience in ninth grade. I had just moved, and my new guidance counselor persuaded me to take a computer programming class because there were no other open ...

LibGdx uses OpenGL exclusively thus every image, or part of it that gets used in a game and displayed, first needs to be transformed into a texture. == Texture == A Texture is nothing more than a ...