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Customizing the WordPress Admin - Listings Screens

Tutorial • Beginner

In Parts 1-4 of this series I showed you how to: Customize the WordPress login screen Customize the dashboard Customize the admin menu Add help...

Rachel McCollin • 23 Oct 2013
Game Development

How to Read and Write Binary Data for Your Custom File Formats

Tutorial • Advanced

In my previous article, Create Custom Binary File Formats for Your Game's Data, I covered the topic of using custom binary file formats to store game assets...

Si Robertson • 19 Oct 2013
Game Development

Cardinal Quest: How I Made $60,000 From My Indie Game

Tutorial • Beginner

You probably hear a lot about wildly successful indie games (The Binding of Isaac, Fez, Braid, Minecraft, and so on) and on occasion also about unsuccessful...

Ido Yehieli • 17 Oct 2013
Game Development

Customizing the WordPress Admin: Help Text

Tutorial • Beginner

In Part 2 of this tutorial, I showed you how to add custom metaboxes to the WordPress dashboard, which you can use to provide help text for your clients or...

Rachel McCollin • 11 Oct 2013
Game Development

How to Use Voronoi Diagrams to Control AI

Tutorial • Intermediate

What is the safest route to take, where are the most enemies located, and where is the nearest health pack? These common spatial relationship questions can...

Brent Owens • 8 Oct 2013
Game Development

Customizing the WordPress Admin: Custom Admin Menus

Tutorial • Beginner

In the first two parts of this series, I showed you how to customise the WordPress login screen and the dashboard. In this third part I'll show you how to...

Rachel McCollin • 3 Oct 2013
Game Development

Unity Wisdom: What I Learned at Unite 2013

Tutorial • Beginner

While a lot of this year's Unite conference focused on technology-related aspects of the Unity engine, there were many talks from developers on their...

Mike Daly • 29 Sep 2013
Game Development

Customizing the WordPress Admin - The Dashboard

Tutorial • Beginner

In the first part of this series, I showed you how to customize the WordPress login screen by adding a custom logo and some custom styling. The next thing...

Rachel McCollin • 25 Sep 2013
Game Development

Quick Tip: Make Retro, Low-Fi Game Sound Effects With Bfxr

Tutorial • Intermediate

Bfxr is a handy tool for making sound effects in a style reminiscent of the NES era, like the noise made when Mario collects a coin. It can run in a browser...

Michael James Williams • 20 Sep 2013
Game Development

Customizing the WordPress Admin: The Login Screen

Tutorial • Beginner

The WordPress login screen is well designed - it's clean and simple to interact with and it works well on all screen sizes. But what if you're building a...

Rachel McCollin • 18 Sep 2013
Game Development

Git and GitHub for Game Developers

Tutorial • Intermediate

"I'm sure Git is great, but it looks complicated - I'll stick with my current workflow" is like saying "I'm sure IDEs like FlashDevelop and Sublime Text are...

Michael James Williams • 15 Sep 2013
Game Development

An Introduction to Creating a Tile Map Engine

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial, I'll help you to create levels for any game genre and make designing levels much easier. You're going to learn how to create your first...

CaptainKraft • 10 Sep 2013