Below is the post mortem originally published on the Ludum Dare blog. The post-compo code with a few tweaks but not yet finished can be found here:   So this was my first LD and I was really excited about…

In tutorial 5 (which can be found here). We looked at how to calculate a circular collision field. But this isn’t that practical when we’ve got lots of stuff to check through. We need to have a manager to control…

This is the 5th Tutorial in the pre-ludum dare series that I’ve been putting together. Find tutorial 4 here. This tutorial introduces the concept of collision detection. The zip file with the code in can be found here. The example…

So far up to tutorial 3 we have been using vector graphics. Vector graphics are great and all but what if we could use an image – well the world would be our oyster. The code can be found here and the…

In tutorial 2 we looked at keyboard input. The problem with the keyboard input, that we looked at, was that it didn’t really translate into a real game mechanic. So in tutorial 3 we’ll look at making a space craft, similar…

In tutorial 1 we looked at code which outlined the game loop with it’s update and draw loops. We looked at the code which produced the rotating square. In this tutorial we are going to explore the possibilities for moving the…

This tutorial is for me to share some basecode which I have written for Ludum Dare 25. The code is free for anyone to use. In fact I would love people to use this code as the basis for a…