Learn about Game Development

Explore this collection of free game development tutorials from experienced industry instructors. Learn new skills, theory, game development software, and more.

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  1. Flash Tips and Best Practices for Designers: Drawing

    Flash Tips and Best Practices for Designers: Drawing

    Tutorial Beginner

    The first time I used Flash was around 13 years ago. It was version 3 and Flash was hailed as the fancy new vector based animation tool that would soon take...

  2. How to Make a Radio Station Schedule Using WordPress

    How to Make a Radio Station Schedule Using WordPress

    Tutorial Beginner

    Often enough, many radio stations are built using WordPress, but many don't harvest the true potential to create a true online radio station. This tutorial...

  3. Data Sanitization and Validation With WordPress

    Data Sanitization and Validation With WordPress

    Tutorial Beginner

    Proper security is critical to keeping your site or that of your theme or plug-in users safe. Part of that means appropriate data validation and...

  4. Workshop: Keeper of the Grove - Critique

    Workshop: Keeper of the Grove - Critique

    Tutorial Beginner

    In today's game critique, Matt Porter takes a look at the new hit tower defense game, Keeper of the Grove, developed by BooblyC.

  5. Function Examination: wp_nav_menu

    Function Examination: wp_nav_menu

    Tutorial Intermediate

    When WordPress 3 presented us with the new Menus functionality, it changed the way we viewed navigation menus forever. No longer were we bound to using the...

  6. The Rewrite API: Post Types & Taxonomies

    The Rewrite API: Post Types & Taxonomies

    Tutorial Beginner

    This is part two of a series looking at WordPress' Rewrite API. In part one we took a whistle stop tour of the basics of WordPress' Rewrite API. In this...

  7. The Rewrite API: The Basics

    The Rewrite API: The Basics

    Tutorial Beginner

    This is part one of a two part series looking at WordPress' Rewrite API. In this tutorial we look at how rewrites work and the basic methods available to...

  8. Workshop: Google Calendar - Critique

    Workshop: Google Calendar - Critique

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this week's critique, Ashish Bogawat gives us a detailed rundown of Google Calendar - specifically, its web-based front end.

  9. XML-RPC in WordPress

    XML-RPC in WordPress

    Tutorial Beginner

    XML-RPC is a protocol for remote procedure calls which uses XML for the data exchange and it mostly uses HTTP for the actual call. In XML-RPC the client that...

  10. Introduction to Unity3D

    Introduction to Unity3D

    Tutorial Beginner

    Unity3D is a powerful cross-platform 3D engine and a user-friendly development environment. Learn how Unity3D can help you create games in this article!

  11. Understanding the Walker Class

    Understanding the Walker Class

    Tutorial Beginner

    Menu items, pages and (hierarchical) taxonomies are all examples of data with a tree like structure: terms can have parents, children and siblings. Usually...

  12. Create a Balloon Popping Game in Flash

    Create a Balloon Popping Game in Flash

    Tutorial Beginner

    One of the most popular Flash games ever is Bloons, in which you play a monkey throwing darts to pop balloons. It's spawned numerous sequels, even branching...