Jack Schofield

Making my first game, tutorial files.

Jack — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:33:32 +0000

So been very busy with school and work. But will try to keep updating you all on making my first game. Here are some assets I’ll be using for the tutorial. I upload more as I have a chance to make them. Hope they help you in getting started. I’ll provide the illustrator, Photoshop files and png images as I finish them.

Background File :Link

Cocos2d iPhone 2D game Engine

Jack — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:23:52 +0000

cocos2d

cocos2d is another iPhone 2d game engine. Haven’t had time to look over the functions it provides. But just want to share it with all of you.

http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/download

Making a mobile Game

Jack — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:37:53 +0000

Well for years now I have wanted to create my own Mobile games. Manly for the fun of it and well to see if I can do it. My main background is in Graphic design. My programing skills or should I say lack of them. Has always been my biggest deterrence into making a game. Thanks to the explosion of the mobile platform, Windows, Apple and Android. More an more companies are making it easier to create games with little programing knowledge. I’m not saying that you don’t need to know how to program. But having a basic understanding of programing is going to be a important need. You’ll want to know most of the basic functions that are used in everyday programing.

So I am going to write my experience creating my first game using Game-salad. So my first few weeks will be learning all about how Game-salad works. I’ll be using the video tutorial on YouTube (Creating a iPhone app form star to finish). As the video tutorial does not have provide a link to the assets used. I will create my own and share it with everyone, so that you to can follow along.

This is the first video of the 9 part series.

Texture Warehoues

Jack — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:11:59 +0000

Nice site that has some good free textures for you 3D models
Link

The Hobbit Movie blog

Jack — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:03:45 +0000

Take a look at Peter Jackson’s blog about making of the hobbit.
Very cool stuff. Link

Fluid effects development for game engines

Jack — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:54:33 +0000

Synfig Vector Animation software

Jack — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:26:08 +0000

Synfig is an open source 2D vector animation software that anyone can download and start creating 2D works. Free to use and download it has some powerful animation tools built into the software. I did find it had to animate with no real instruction or tutorials provided by the site other than a document wiki page. Lucky by just searching a little on youtube I was able to find some video tutorial that help me get started faster then the documents provided by Synfig. But the wiki doc are still a great resource for any one starting out. So head on over to http://synfig.org/ and give the software a try. And if you up for it post your animation links in the comments for all of us to see.

Here’s an example of what can be done with this free software

Making games in the Cloud

Jack — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:29:13 +0000

Little by little more and more content is moving it’s way to the cloud. Cloud based computer that is and making games is no exception. Sploder is a flash based game creator that is entirely online. From creation to final completion all steps are done on the site’s website. Sploder is currently in beta form, but seems to a have a good community of creators and players already behind it. So head on over to http://www.sploder.com/ and see what you could be creating as well.

L.A. Noire: “The Technology Behind Performance

Jack — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:48:04 +0000

By RockStar Games

Go on Over to Engadget to read all about this great innovation to up coming video games.

Deus Ex Human Revolution CG Director’s Cut Trailer

Jack — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:23:55 +0000

More on this upcoming game at http://www.deusex.com/