I'm Moving, Virtually

First, sorry for going dark. I just haven't had the focus or energy to put into tutorials or the blog or personal projects really. Second, the exciting news. Game Programming Adventures is moving to a new home! I'm in the progress of migrating from Blogger to WordPress. I've got most of the content moved. I lost some of the comments on the pages because they wouldn't export. The new URL will be:

https://cynthiamcmahon.ca/blog/ 

You can head over now and take a peek. The home page needs a bit of work yet. I need to create the images for the slider as I don't have images in the suggested resolution and the ones I do have are in different resolutions. I'll probably spend time doing that tomorrow.

Dragon's Claw Status Update

 I've been working on the next Dragon's Claw tutorial in between settling in to my new place. I'm trying to find a way to handle making a mass update to the data layer rather than just spewing out 1400 lines of code. I have an idea on what to do but it is a bit complex. I think the complex route is better than having you try and copy/paste over 1400 lines of code. The tutorial is about have a back end running that processes the queues of troops to be trained. For the back end I use a NodeJS script that calls an MVC controller action every hour, or tick. I should have the tutorial up over the weekend.

All Moved In

I am all moved in, though not 100% unpacked. I got the WiFi up and running on my computer so tomorrow I should be slowly easing back into working on projects and tutorials. I have some ideas on non-MonoGame tutorials that I'd like to do in relation to web development. I think my next tutorial, or two, will be on Dragon's Claw.

Third Forest Rush Tutorial Is Live

I have published the third tutorial in the Forest Rush tutorial series to the web site. This tutorial covers running and jumping. You can find the tutorial on the Forest Rush page of the web site or you can use this direct link.

I will be doing some work on tutorials over the next few days but not much as I'm preparing to move on Tuesday.

Third Forest Rush Tutorial Update

Writer crashed on me last evening and I lost a couple hours worth of work because it could not repair the recovery file. So, I wasn't be posting it last evening like planned. I will be posting it later today.

First Tutorial In New Platformer Series Forest Rush

I have published a new tutorial in a series on creating a platform game with MonoGame to my web site. This tutorial creates a few core components that will be used in the game. You can find the tutorial on the new Forest Rush page of the site. I should have the second tutorial up tomorrow.

Third 3D Tile Engine Tutorial

I have published the third tutorial in my 3D Tile Engine tutorial series. This tutorials moves to using vertex and index buffers to dramatically increase performance. You can find the tutorial on the MonoGame Tutorials page of the site. You can also use this direct link to the tutorial.

I will be working on another tutorial over the next few days. It will likely be Eyes of the Dragon or Dragon's Claw but I have a few other ideas bouncing around in my brain. Stay tuned for more tutorials!