This month we talk about ways to promote your game and how to handle feedback on your game.

Hosts

Show Notes

• East Tennessee Content Creator event at Token Game Tavern (March 15, 2020) – https://www.facebook.com/events/664493714306082
• Ludum Dare 46 event at Panera (April 17, 2020 at 7pm Eastern Time) – https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46
• Makefile syntax reference – https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
• Levi’s Taylor Series spreadsheet for calculating sine – https://levidsmith.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/taylor_series_sine.xlsx
• Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) – https://obsproject.com/
• VLC Media Player – https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
• Wizard of Oz prototyping – https://uxpajournal.org/wizard-oz-woz/
• Resistor feedback from GameMarx – https://web.archive.org/web/20121017013427/http://www.gamemarx.com/news/2012/09/16/words-of-wisdom-for-new-indie-game-developers.aspx
• Wipeout – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XASEBvDri4U
• Blue Ocean Strategy (Red Oceans vs Blue Oceans) – https://www.blueoceanstrategy.com/what-are-red-blue-oceans/
• Flutter – https://flutter.dev/
• Flutter 101: How to make health apps in Android/iOS – https://www.amia.org/flutter-101-how-make-health-apps-androidios
• Vector Conference at EKU Richmond, Kentucky (April 24-25, 2020) – http://vectorconf.com/
  • Update – Vector Conference is Online only this year
• Godot Communities – https://godotengine.org/article/call-volunteers-organizing-regional-communities
• Graphics Gale – https://graphicsgale.com/us/
• Middle Tennessee Game Developers Directory – https://nashgame.dev/developers/

The new Knoxville Game Design brochures arrived today.

Knoxville Game Design invites you to attend the online meeting and podcast recording for Sunday March 8, 2020 at 2pm Eastern Time.

This month’s topic is Promotion and Feedback.

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

Video for last month’s meeting on Java Game Development – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwEX6ikcEao

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

Please direct any questions to levidsmith@knoxgamedesign.org

Knoxville Game Design invites you to attend the online meeting and podcast recording for Sunday February 9, 2020 at 2pm Eastern Time.

This month’s topic is Creating Games with Java.  We will discuss the basics of Java and how to create simple games with the language.

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

Video for last month’s meeting on Blender with Unity – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyeEsCCyTMA

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

Please direct any questions to levidsmith@knoxgamedesign.org

This month’s topic is Blender for Unity.  We will go over the basics of modeling and texturing an object in Blender.  Then we will import that model into Unity and add behaviors through C# code.

Hosts

Show Notes

• Blender 2.80 – https://www.blender.org/
• Gimp – https://www.gimp.org/
• Unity – https://unity.com/
• BlackJar72’s projects,  Knight Ferret Engine for creating 2D games in Java – https://github.com/BlackJar72?tab=repositories
• Oculus Link for Oculus Quest – https://support.oculus.com/444256562873335/
• More GameMaker tutorials from Drew – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07AXuEpYTno&list=PLjoLbN1uRJGx5FgCUhYjh5R4lj7gEUtPJ
• Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

Knoxville Game Design invites you to attend the online meeting and podcast recording for Sunday January 12, 2020 at 2pm Eastern Time.

This month’s topic is Blender for Unity.  We will go over the basics of modeling and texturing an object in Blender.  Then we will import that model into Unity and add behaviors through C# code.

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

Video for last month’s meeting on SDL with C – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ7BdGeo10s

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

Please direct any questions to levidsmith@knoxgamedesign.org

This month’s topic is SDL with C.  Before Unity and GameMaker, there was the Simple Direct Media Layer.  It can be used to create 2D and 3D games on a wide variety of platforms.  C is still one of the most widely used programming languages.  We will discuss how to get a simple game running in C using the SDL libraries.

This presentation covers the basics of the C programming language, how to compile a simple program with GCC, and an overview of data structures and pointers.  We show how to create an SDL shooter game starting with getting a window to display, to adding a ship, bullets, and enemies.

Show Notes

• SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) website – https://www.libsdl.org/
• MinGW website – http://mingw.org/
• MinGW download mirror on SourceForge – https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/
• SDL Shooter source code on GitHub – https://github.com/gatechgrad/SDLShooter
• Drew Ragsdale (Retro Cemetery) games on Itchio – https://retro-cemetery.itch.io/ 
• Drew’s GameMaker videos – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsoBomrgqKe-rbp8A8YTYEA
• Peach Jam – https://www.momocon.com/peach-jam/
• Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

Cyberspace Shootem up gameplay video by Drew

Knoxville Game Design invites you to attend the online meeting and podcast recording for Sunday December 8, 2019 at 2pm Eastern Time.

This month’s topic is SDL with C.  Before Unity and GameMaker, there was the Simple Direct Media Layer.  It can be used to create 2D and 3D games on a wide variety of platforms.  C is still one of the most widely used programming languages.  We will discuss how to get a simple game running in C using the SDL libraries.

Any questions on the topic or game development in general are welcome.  We will also have time for “show and tell” for anyone who wants to share any game projects that they have been developing.

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

Video for last month’s meeting on Scratch – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5FSAj2kF7o

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

Please direct any questions to levidsmith@knoxgamedesign.org

This month’s topic is Scratch. Scratch is a game development environment where visual code blocks are dragged and dropped instead of writing code. It is a good tool to introduce programming concepts to people who have no coding experience.

Show Notes

• Scratch website – https://scratch.mit.edu/
• Dylan’s Inktober entries on Redbubble – https://www.redbubble.com/people/dylanwolf/collections/1188929-inktober-2019
• Chris Gardner’s (@freestylecoder) Extra Life page – https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=388164
• Mike Neel’s Pico-8 tutorials – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAxvktmqTdQ8X_A6tZKBZPA_XfMAYP_Ek
• Seige conference videos from Atlanta – https://www.youtube.com/user/GeorgiaGameDevs/videos
• Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster