Raspberry Pi Arcade – Knox Game Design, November 2020

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Ludum Dare 47 Recap – Knox Game Design, October 2020

October 24, 2020Meetings and Presentations, PodcastKnoxville Game Design

A recap of the Ludum Dare 47 game jam plus a post mortem. Also what others on the Knox Game Design Discord have been developing.

If you are interested in attending a Knox Game Design meeting either virtually or in-person, let us know!

Show Links and Notes

Ludum Dare 47 keynotes – https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/$212263/welcome-to-ludum-dare-47-ps-we-start-early
Circuitus Infinitus entry – https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/circuitus-infinitus
George Rhoads ball machine – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_UaWaZYjcE
George Rhoads interview – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM3NWMr2l10
Time lapse maker – https://github.com/levidsmith/timelapsemaker
Unity Helper – https://github.com/levidsmith/UnityHelper
Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

Time lapse development videos

Hosted by Levi D. Smith

Ludum Dare 47 Recap – Knox Game Design, October 2020

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MonoGame – Knox Game Design, September 2020

September 25, 2020Meetings and Presentations, PodcastKnoxville Game Design

An overview of creating a game with MonoGame. Installation of MonoGame development environment using Visual Studio. Handling input devices such as keyboard, gamepad, and mouse. How to load assets such as sound effects, music, fonts, and sprite images. Examples of simple number guessing game and space shooter in MonoGame and C#. How to convert an XNA game to MonoGame.

Hosted by Levi D. Smith

MonoGame source code – https://github.com/levidsmith/MonoGameExamples

Show Links and Notes

MonoGame – https://www.monogame.net/
XNA to MonoGame guide by Levi D. Smith – XnaToMonogame.pdf
XNA Game Studio Redistributable Font Pack – https://github.com/SimonDarksideJ/XNAGameStudio/wiki/Redistributable-Font-Pack
Beginning MonoGame – http://www.geekswithblogs.net/cwilliams/archive/2017/02/06/232974.aspx
MonoGame Tutorial – https://gamefromscratch.com/monogame-tutorial-series/
Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

MonoGame – Knox Game Design, September 2020

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BBS Games, VT100, and ANSI Graphics – Knox Game Design August 2020

August 21, 2020Meetings and Presentations, PodcastKnoxville Game Design

An overview of BBS (Bulletin Board System) games from the 1990s. How to connect to a telnet BBS to play DOOR games. Creating ANSI graphics with ACiD draw in DOSBox. VT100 color codes explained. A simple telnet server created in Ruby, which displays system time, counts to ten, displays an ANSI file, and has a number guessing game.

Hosted by Levi D. Smith

Ruby source code – https://github.com/levidsmith/SimpleRubyServer

Show Links and Notes

Telnet BBS Guide – https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/
VT100 codes – http://ascii-table.com/ansi-escape-sequences-vt-100.php
VT100 codes – http://www.climagic.org/mirrors/VT100_Escape_Codes.html
VT100 codes – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#CSI_sequences
Old School Font PC Resource – https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/download/
Telnet protocol – https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc854
ACiD Productions (ACiDDraw) – http://www.acid.org/
PuTTY – https://putty.org/
DOSBox – https://www.dosbox.com/
Ruby – https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

BBS Games, VT100, and ANSI Graphics – Knox Game Design August 2020

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Color – Knox Game Design, July 2020

July 24, 2020Links & NotesKnoxville Game Design

An overview of color for game developers. How various colors are made on the computer using RGB and HSV formats. The color spectrum and the ROY G BIV order for colors. Where visible color exists on the electromagnetic wavelength scale. Color displays on CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) and LED (Light Emitting Diode) devices. Converting between color representation in float, decimal, and hex formats. Difference between hue, saturation, and value. Various modifiers in the Gimp image editor such as Colorize, Posterize, Color Balance, and layers. Console color palettes and historical video modes. Color pickers and other tools for making color themes.

Show Notes

Color wheel from Adobe – https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel
Color Picker – https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp
Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

Color – Knox Game Design, July 2020

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Pygame – Knox Game Design, June 2020

June 14, 2020PodcastKnoxville Game Design

This month we learn how to create games in Python using the Pygame library.

1:30 – News
6:13 – Showoff: Unity Helper and new leaderboard features
11:47 – Pygame (feature presentation)

Hosts

Jacob	ldjam.com/users/jacobturn/games		gamejolt.com/@Big_Ol_Tom
Jeffry	http://www.thingiverse.com/insane66
Levi D. Smith	levidsmith.com	@GaTechGrad	gatechgrad.itch.io

Show Notes

Pygame examples (Number Guess, Shooter, Koi-Koi) – https://github.com/levidsmith/PythonProjects
Python download site – www.python.org/downloads
Pygame site – https://www.pygame.org/news
Procedurally Generating Potted Plants in Unity – https://www.dylanwolf.com/2020/05/11/ludum-dare-46-procedurally-generating-potted-plants-in-unity/
Dylan’s Pico-8 talk at Momocon – http://www.knoxgamedesign.org/1361/joy-of-game-development-momocon-2020/
Unreal Engine 5 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WHnY-hcFro
KnoxPy – https://knoxpy.org/
Jared’s Dungeon Game in Java – https://github.com/BlackJar72/DungeonGame
Levi’s UnityHelper application in Ruby – https://github.com/levidsmith/UnityHelper
Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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June 2020 Online Meeting Announcement

June 12, 2020Links & NotesKnoxville Game Design

Knox Game Design invites you to attend the online meeting and podcast recording for Sunday June 14, 2020 at 2pm Eastern Time.

This month Levi D. Smith will talk about the basics of Pygame and Python programming. He will also demo a simple game created with Pygame.

Important – This month we will try the new Discord video meeting. Join the Knox Game Design Discord channel at https://discord.gg/XxEPVYx and then join the General voice channel. If it doesn’t work out, we will revert back to Hangouts. Video is not required to join or participate in our meeting.

Video for last month’s meeting on Ludum Dare 46 Entries and Leaderboard Security – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYDKLYk55K0

Subscribe to the audio podcast

iTunes – https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/game-design-chat/id1084873107
Stitcher – https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=142087&refid=stpr
Google Play – https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iho5dczcqxuiwgfzcbu7mv6wq54
Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/56kjqlyQzBePK76kV5vILE
TuneIn – https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/Knox-Game-Design-p1327896/
iHeartRadio – https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-knoxville-game-design-31013045/

Chat with us on Discord – https://discord.gg/XxEPVYx

Follow Knox Game Design on social media for the latest updates: https://twitter.com/KnoxGameDesign

Please direct any questions to levidsmith@knoxgamedesign.org

Ludum Dare 46 Entries and Leaderboard Security – Knox Game Design, May 2020

May 25, 2020Meetings and Presentations, PodcastKnoxville Game Design

This month we show off our games created for Ludum Dare 46. Levi D. Smith also talks about leaderboard security.

0:58 – News – BitBucket discontinues Mercurial, migration to GitHub
9:43 – Raising Cerberus by James
15:54 – Machina by Jacob
23:50 – Potted Plant Simulator by Dylan
46:02 – Chicken Little by Levi
52:33 – Leaderboard Security presentation

Hosts

Jacob	ldjam.com/users/jacobturn/games		gamejolt.com/@Big_Ol_Tom
Dylan Wolf	www.dylanwolf.com	@DylanWolf	dylanwolf.itch.io
Levi D. Smith	levidsmith.com	@GaTechGrad	gatechgrad.itch.io

Show Notes

Machina by Jacob – https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/machina
Potted Plant Simulator by Dylan – https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/potted-plant-simulator
Raising Cerberus by James – https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/raising-cerberus
Chicken Little by Levi – https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/chicken-little
MD5 Reverser – https://md5.gromweb.com/
ILSpy – https://github.com/icsharpcode/ILSpy
DevXUnity – https://www.devxdevelopment.com/
uTinyRipper – https://github.com/mafaca/UtinyRipper
dotPeek – https://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/
Fiddler – https://www.telerik.com/fiddler
What’s My IP – https://www.whatsmyip.org/
Just Something You Have the Urge To Do – https://levidsmith.com/historical/whittling/
Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

Ludum Dare 46 Entries and Leaderboard Security – Knox Game Design, May 2020

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Joy of Game Development – Momocon 2020

May 23, 2020Links & NotesKnoxville Game Design

Dylan Wolf will be presenting Joy of Game Development at the virtual Momocon 2020 event on Sunday May 24, 2020 at 4pm Eastern Time. Use the following link to view the stream – https://www.twitch.tv/momocontv1

Here’s the link to the video for anyone who missed it

May 2020 Online Meeting Announcement

May 7, 2020Links & NotesKnoxville Game Design

Knox Game Design invites you to attend the online meeting and podcast recording for Sunday May 10, 2020 at 2pm Eastern Time.

This month we will show off our games created for Ludum Dare 46. Levi D. Smith will also talk about leaderboard security.

Join us using at the following URL: https://hangouts.google.com/call/ni63jloemrd7xdto37z5mayk4uu

Video for last month’s meeting on Ludum Dare 46 Kickoff – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvOmEfi2ghk

Subscribe to the audio podcast

iTunes – https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/game-design-chat/id1084873107
Stitcher – https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=142087&refid=stpr
Google Play – https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iho5dczcqxuiwgfzcbu7mv6wq54

Chat with us on Discord – https://discord.gg/XxEPVYx

Follow Knox Game Design on social media for the latest updates: https://twitter.com/KnoxGameDesign

Please direct any questions to levidsmith@knoxgamedesign.org