The new Knoxville Game Design brochures arrived today.
March 2020 Online Meeting Announcement
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
Java Game Development – Knox Game Design, February 2020
This month’s topic is Creating Games with Java. We discuss the basics of Java and how to create simple games with the language.
Source Code for Java Examples
Hosts
| Jared | github.com/BlackJar72 | jaredbgreat.itch.io | |
| Jacob | ldjam.com/users/jacobturn/games | gamejolt.com/@Big_Ol_Tom | |
| Jeffry | www.thingiverse.com/insane66 | ||
| Dylan Wolf |
www.dylanwolf.com/ | @DylanWolf | dylanwolf.itch.io |
| Levi D. Smith | levidsmith.com | @GaTechGrad | gatechgrad.itch.io |
Links and Notes
- JDK (Java Development Kit) download – https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
- OpenJDK source code – https://hg.openjdk.java.net/
- Levi’s Java projects – https://github.com/gatechgrad/GeorgiaTechProjects/tree/master/java
- Discord Game Store – https://discordapp.com/sell-your-game
- Mike Garcia’s blog – http://mgarcia.org/Blog/2019-12-31-The-social-media-feedback-loop
- Mister Adventure – https://levidsmith.com/games/mister-adventure/
- Hero Power, Knoxville Hearthstone podcast –
https://www.youtube.com/user/ecmmogamers - KnoxDevs Web – https://knoxdevs.com/ Slack – https://knoxdevs.slack.com
- Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster
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February 2020 Online Meeting Announcement
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
Blender for Unity – Knox Game Design, January 2020
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
Links and 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
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January 2020 Online Meeting Announcement
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
SDL with C – Knox Game Design, December 2019
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.
Links and 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
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December 2019 Online Meeting Announcement
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
Scratch – Knox Game Design, November 2019
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.
Links and 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
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November 2019 Online Meeting Announcement
Knoxville Game Design invites you to attend the online meeting and podcast recording for Sunday November 10, 2019 at 2pm Eastern Time.
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.
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 Fall ’19 game jam Showoff – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQi3igt8Zqs
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
Follow Knoxville Game Design on social media for the latest updates: https://twitter.com/KnoxGameDesign
Please direct any questions to levidsmith@knoxgamedesign.org