Game Dev Diary (Pt.6) - They Live!

Posted by Mark Alexander on 10 April 2015

At the end of last weeks diary, I was just getting to grips with the player movement and some bas... More »

Game Dev Diary (Pt.5) - Moving On

Posted by Mark Alexander on 3 April 2015

With the basic design of my HUD finished, and the core dungeon generation code working well, it w... More »

Game Dev Diary (Pt.4) - A View To A Kill

Posted by Mark Alexander on 27 March 2015

In the last blog, I explained how I created the walls and doors of my dungeon, as well as how I a... More »

Upcoming Stable Release - What To Look Out For

Posted by Dan Cleaton on 27 March 2015

Moving from Stable 1.4.1474 to 1.4.1567 We will shortly be updating the version we have set to t... More »

Using PIX to profile your Windows games

Posted by Mike Dailly on 24 March 2015

For some time we've had requests to make some of the graphics pipeline more visible, so that deve... More »

Game Dev Diary (Pt.3) - Bringing The Game to Life

Posted by Mark Alexander on 20 March 2015

After creating the base of my new game engine (see last weeks tech blog on procedural generation)... More »

Game Dev Diary (Pt.2) - Organising Chaos

Posted by Mark Alexander on 13 March 2015

In last weeks tech blog I went into some detail about the creative process behind making a game, ... More »

Game Dev Diary (Pt.1) - Mummy, where do games come from?

Posted by Mark Alexander on 6 March 2015

This weeks tech blog continues on in the spirit of the previous ones that Mike Dailly has written... More »

Writing a ZX Spectrum emulator in GameMaker: Studio

Posted by Mike Dailly on 27 February 2015

So if you followed my last emulator series, you'll know that I built up a lot of caches of shapes... More »

Creating a Commodore 64 emulator in GameMaker - Part 8

Posted by Mike Dailly on 20 February 2015

So in this, the last part of my Commodore 64 Emulator series, I want to talk about some of the op... More »

Creating a Commodore 64 emulator in GameMaker - Part 7

Posted by Mike Dailly on 13 February 2015

So in this chapter, I thought I'd tackle the tricky subject of SID chip emulation, both how I gen... More »

Creating a Commodore 64 emulator in GameMaker - Part 6

Posted by Mike Dailly on 6 February 2015

So, now that we have C64 sprites being rendered, how about characters? Well like sprites they are... More »

Creating a Commodore 64 emulator in GameMaker - Part 5

Posted by Mike Dailly on 30 January 2015

In this part, I'm going to start looking at sprites, and see if there's anything I can do in orde... More »

Creating a Commodore 64 emulator in GameMaker - Part 4

Posted by Mike Dailly on 23 January 2015

In this part, I'm going to start discussing how I handled the screen at the start of this process... More »

Creating a Commodore 64 emulator in GameMaker - Part 3

Posted by Mike Dailly on 16 January 2015

In this part I want to talk first about the CPU bug I had, and how I fixed it, then I want to dis... More »

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