Spring ’20 Game Jam Kickoff – Knox Game Design, April 2020

April 29, 2020Meetings, PodcastKnox Game Design

Jacob, Dylan, and Levi get together before the Spring ’20 theme announcement to talk about their thoughts on the possible themes.

0:52 – Possible game jam night in Tennessee
7:10 – Dylan’s water color work
19:08 – Game jam theme discussion
59:05 – Tools we are planning to use for the game jam
1:15:30 – Jacob’s thoughts on the game jam themes
1:21:00 – Hanafuda Koi Koi in Python / Preview of upcoming PyGame talk

Hosts

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

Links and Notes

Kuretake Water Color set – https://www.jetpens.com/Kuretake-Gansai-Tambi-Watercolor-Palette-48-Color-Set/pd/27159
Dylan’s RedBubble site – https://www.redbubble.com/people/dylanwolf/shop
Nashville Game Developers – https://nashgame.dev/
Game jam Final Round themes – https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/theme/4
Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Spring '20 Game Jam Kickoff - Knox Game Design, April 2020

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Promotion and Feedback – Knox Game Design, March 2020

March 14, 2020Meetings, Podcast, PresentationsKnox Game Design

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

Hosts

Dylan Wolf	www.dylanwolf.com/	@DylanWolf	dylanwolf.itch.io
Levi D. Smith	levidsmith.com	@GaTechGrad	gatechgrad.itch.io
Ruth Ann	http://meemawsurrendered.com/		https://tranzeve.itch.io/
Jared	github.com/BlackJar72		jaredbgreat.itch.io

Links and Notes

East Tennessee Content Creator event at Token Game Tavern (March 15, 2020) – https://www.facebook.com/events/664493714306082
Spring ’20 game jam 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/

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Java Game Development – Knox Game Design, February 2020

February 12, 2020Meetings, Podcast, PresentationsGameDev, JavaKnox Game Design

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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Java Game Development - Knox Game Design, February 2020

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Blender for Unity – Knox Game Design, January 2020

January 14, 2020Meetings, Podcast, PresentationsKnox Game Design

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

Ruth Ann	http://meemawsurrendered.com/		https://tranzeve.itch.io/
Jeffry	http://www.thingiverse.com/insane66
Jacob	http://ldjam.com/users/jacobturn/games		https://gamejolt.com/@Big_Ol_Tom
Dylan Wolf	https://www.dylanwolf.com/	@DylanWolf	https://dylanwolf.itch.io
Levi D. Smith	https://levidsmith.com	@GaTechGrad	https://gatechgrad.itch.io

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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Blender for Unity - Knox Game Design, January 2020

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SDL with C – Knox Game Design, December 2019

December 9, 2019Meetings, Podcast, PresentationsKnox Game Design

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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SDL with C - Knox Game Design, December 2019

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Scratch – Knox Game Design, November 2019

November 13, 2019Meetings, Podcast, PresentationsKnox Game Design

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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Fall ’19 Game Jam Showoff – Knox Game Design, October 2019

October 17, 2019Meetings, Podcast, Show and TellKnox Game Design

We show off the four games created by East Tennessee developers for Fall ’19. The theme was “Start with Nothing”

Hosts

Dylan Wolf	https://www.dylanwolf.com/	@DylanWolf	https://dylanwolf.itch.io
Levi D. Smith	https://levidsmith.com	@GaTechGrad	https://gatechgrad.itch.io

Links and Notes

Self-Made Spaceman – https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/self-made-spaceman
Mahjong Drop – https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/mahjong-drop
The D U S T – https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/the-d-u-s-t
Ludum Lux – https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/ludum-lux
Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Fall '19 Game Jam Showoff - Knox Game Design, October 2019

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Creating Games in Smalltalk – Knox Game Design, September 2019

September 11, 2019Links & Notes, Meetings, Podcast, PresentationsKnox Game Design

This month’s topic is Creating Games in Smalltalk. We look at how it is possible to create games in the Smalltalk language using the Squeak environment. Smalltalk is one of the first object oriented languages, where everything is an object.

Smalltalk Example Code

Hosts

Dylan Wolf	https://www.dylanwolf.com/	@DylanWolf	https://dylanwolf.itch.io
Levi D. Smith	https://levidsmith.com	@GaTechGrad	https://gatechgrad.itch.io

Links and Notes

Running a Board Gaming Event by Dylan – https://www.dylanwolf.com/2019/08/11/running-a-board-gaming-event-cards-against-humanity/
/dev/random bash script by Levi – https://github.com/gatechgrad/RandomNumberGeneratorExamples/blob/master/random_examples_bash/devrandom.sh
Unreal Engine 4.23 – https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/unreal-engine-4-23-released
Programming Languages Chart – http://www.digibarn.com/collections/posters/tongues/ComputerLanguagesChart.png
Squeak documentation – https://squeak.org/documentation/
Smalltalk coding guide – https://squeak.org/documentation/terse_guide/
Morphic for beginners – https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1870
Introduction to Morphic – http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/CollectiveNBlueBook/morphic.final.pdf
Squeak by example – https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00441576/file/SBE.pdf
Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Creating Games in Smalltalk - Knox Game Design, September 2019

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Random Number Generators (RNG) – Knox Game Design, August 2019

August 12, 2019Links & Notes, Meetings, Podcast, PresentationsKnox Game Design

This month’s topic is Random Number Generators (RNG). We discuss the various methods for generating random values in game development. We provide specific examples for Unity, GameMaker, and Unreal Engine. We also look at combinatorics for determining the likelihood of outcomes.

Hosts

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

Links and Notes

PUZL by Dylan – https://dylanwolf.itch.io/puzl
Space Shooter Improved by Levi – https://levidsmith.com/games/space-shooter-improved/
Tetris random generator – https://tetris.fandom.com/wiki/Random_Generator
3Tris on Google Play – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doublesquare.threetris
Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Random Number Generators (RNG) - Knox Game Design, August 2019

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Pico-8 – Knox Game Design, July 2019

July 18, 2019Links & Notes, Meetings, Podcast, PresentationsKnox Game Design

An overview of using the Pico-8 fantasy console to develop games using the Lua programming language. We look at the steps and code for building a number guessing game and a simple space shooter.

Hosts

Dylan Wolf	https://www.dylanwolf.com/	@DylanWolf	https://dylanwolf.itch.io
Levi D. Smith	https://levidsmith.com	@GaTechGrad	https://gatechgrad.itch.io

Links and Notes

Pico-8 official site – https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
Lua official site – https://www.lua.org/about.html
Unity Build Tool wiki page – https://levidsmith.com/wiki/Unity_Build_Tool
Knoxville Game Design upcoming meeting topics thread – https://www.knoxgamedesign.org/community/topic/upcoming-online-meeting-topics/
Yatzy Dice Game – https://levidsmith.com/games/yatzy-dice-game/
Google Hangouts shutdown – https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/the-great-google-hangouts-shutdown-begins-october-2019/
Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Pico-8 - Knox Game Design, July 2019

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