High-Order Fun has a helpful guide to programming 2D platformers that walks through how to calculate basic movement, slopes, ladders, stairs, one-way platforms, moving platforms, jumping, and ...

Unity, the increasingly popular “build once, deploy anywhere” 3D game engine, is going 2D. At the company’s UNITE conference in Vancouver this morning, CEO David Helgason announced three things: ...

Nintendo offers its Switch owners the opportunity to design games for themselves and others with Game Builder Garage, a programming game built in-house at Nintendo. It’s less a game in the strictest ...

The video game industry is now bigger than it has ever been before, with more and more young people interested in developing their very own video games –- and rightly so. After all, game development ...

YoYo Games launched GameMaker Studio 2 on macOS this week, bringing the popular multiplatform 2D game development engine to the Mac for the first time. To date, the GameMaker Studio family of products ...

Learning a game development engine like Unreal Engine can be intimidating, but thanks to Humble's new Game Programming C++ & Unreal book bundle deal, you can get up to 20 ebooks covering Unreal Engine ...

You could be the kind of person who just lives and breathes video games, loving every aspect of them and wishing that your everyday life could revolve around games even more. Or, you might have lots ...

Hungarian Independent Developer Adam Miklosi has announced the release of Code Miner: A Programming Game. Based on CODE IDE -- a mobile Integrated Development Environment -- the game weds familiar 2D ...