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Greg The Robot - Game Dev with TypeScript

by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

A shoot'n'up HTML5 game made with Phaser game framework

Celerity: How it was all done

by Adam David Hill

All the juicy tricks and scandalous shortcuts which helped us ship our competition game on time

Blowing the Doors Off 3D Math: Part I - Matrix Multiplication

by CMalcheski

Thinking outside the box can result in critical performance gains

Decorator Pattern Usage on a Simplified Pacman Game

by Petar Brkusanin

An example of how Decorator, Dependency Injection, and Composition Root patterns can be used to extend the base game functionality.

Latest Articles

Tetris Wall Art for Arduino

by honey the codewitch

Display automated (optionally controllable) Tetris on an LCD or Neopixel panel

Autonomous Movement of Objects and Characters in a Game

by Member 10912276

How to control game elements based on predefined conditions

Redesigned German Cards Game "Schafkopf"

by Jo_vb.net

This article and the demo are about getting started using my Schafkopf_OOP VB.NET project.

Kaldoku Game

by KrirkDev

Kaldoku - a Sudoku like puzzle game

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Game Development

3D Computer Graphics from Scratch

1 Feb 2024 by Orphraie

Study of 3D graphics in video games with minimal prior knowledge of mathematics

C++

Visual-Studio

Direct2D

game

8/15 Puzzle using A* (A Star) Algorithm, C#

14 Jul 2013 by Sudhir Tiwari

8/15 puzzle using A* (A Star) algorithm.

.NET

algorithm

game

A Complete Word Puzzle Game in C#.NET

14 Jul 2021 by Mehedi Shams

An eye-teaser to tease your eyes, see if you can beat it!

.NET

Design

game

A Pendulum and its Corresponding Oscillations Shown in WPF

4 Nov 2010 by logicchild

An article that illustrates how to simulate a pendulum.

A Pong in Silverlight

31 Aug 2011 by pierre poliakoff

A tutorial on how to write a Silverlight game based on the classical Pong game.

Silverlight3

Silverlight

game

A Simple Shooter Videogame in Native JavaScript - Updated for Mobile

28 Oct 2017 by massimiliano aronica

Let's have a break with JavaScript and a Canvas

A Simple Snake Game: Engerek

9 Feb 2011 by Okan Kocyigit

A simple snake game controllable both by joystick and keyboard, graphics using C#, joystick control using Directx

A Tic Tac Toe AI with Neural Networks and Machine Learning

24 Jun 2019 by Thomas Daniels

This article describes the making of a tic tac toe player that uses neural networks and machine learning.

.NET

artificial-intelligence

neural-network

machine-learning

game

AI based Tic Tac Toe (Java code)

27 May 2014 by Mohd Akram

Java Tic Tac Toe (AI based)

HTML

Java

artificial-intelligence

machine-learning

game

All Hail the Old and the New – The MonoGame Content Builder Tool

17 Dec 2014 by Simon Jackson

All Hail the Old and the New – The MonoGame Content Builder Tool

An Audio Analysis Framework for XNA Developers

15 Jul 2021 by Steve Hoult

Creation of an Audio analysis framework to enable developers with little to no understanding of audio analysis to develop audio-driven games

Anagrams2 - A Simple WPF Game Application

4 Nov 2012 by #realJSOP

My Anagrams game ported to WPF.

Android Basic Game Loop

9 Oct 2014 by Pavel Durov

This article is explaining how to implement a basic game fundamentals on Android platform.

Androng, a Pong clone for Android

1 May 2011 by Patrick Kalkman

This article describes how I developed Androng, a Pong clone for Android.

AngularJS Falling Blocks

27 May 2020 by Theo Kand

An original AngularJS implementation of the most famous video game ever

ASP.NET Core Blazor Game Development using .NET Core 3.0 Preview, Web API and Visual Studio 2019

22 May 2019 by syed shanu

How to create a simple game development web application using ASP.NET Core Blazor, .NET Core 3.0 Preview and with Visual Studio 2019

Blazor

Visual-Studio

game

Bingo Game Suite - Part 1

20 Feb 2023 by gggustafson

In this first part, we look at the random arrangement of numbers on a player's Bingo card.

random

game

Bingo Game Suite - Part 2

27 Feb 2023 by gggustafson

Print_Cards to produce PDF file containing specified number of unique Bingo cards

random

game

Bingo Game Suite - Part 3

29 Mar 2023 by gggustafson

This article is the third and final in the Bingo Game Suite series.

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Blowing the Doors Off 3D Math: Part I - Matrix Multiplication

4 Oct 2017 by CMalcheski

Thinking outside the box can result in critical performance gains

DirectX

graphics

game

Bob's Quest (Conquering Android Wear, Part 2)

14 Oct 2015 by Mitchell J.

Introducing Bob's Quest, a Flappy Bird clone (of sorts), in which Bob must avoid crashing into pillars as he leaps through space.

BounceBall - XNA Farseer Magic

12 Apr 2011 by Vinit Yadav

In this article we are going to develop a game using Farseer Physics Engine and XNA for Windows Phone 7. This article provides you base for your games to make game development easy and fast.

C# wrapper for Diablo III API

26 Sep 2012 by Charles Ju

This is a C# wrapper for Diablo III API. The project include the wrapper API file and a GDI+ ownerdraw panel and a Winform demo. You can add any Diablo III tag to the left combobox.

Celerity: How it was all done

7 Jan 2013 by Adam David Hill

All the juicy tricks and scandalous shortcuts which helped us ship our competition game on time

Celerity: Sensory Overload

3 Dec 2012 by Adam David Hill

Sensor-controlled XNA tunnel game with VR head-tracking.

Chess Program in C#

2 Jan 2024 by Jacques Fournier

SrcChess is a chess program built in C#

chess

game

Chesslings

9 Sep 2013 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

An isometric chess game using Paper JS

Circular maze

21 Jun 2013 by Lipman Roi

An algorithm which automatically generates circular mazes.

Conway's Game of Life with F# and SDL.NET

4 Feb 2011 by Scott Philip Brown

This is an implementation of Conway's Game of Life using F# and SDL.NET

game

Create an HTML5 (and JavaScript) Maze Game with a Timer

31 May 2016 by Thomas Daniels

How to create a maze with a digital timer using HTML5 and JavaScript, without the use of Flash

Cutting Edge - Motion, Texture And 3D Forms As Interactive Services (Part I)

8 Sep 2012 by Asame Imoni Obiomah

This article is the first toddler step in the development of a framework for the delivery of motion, touch and 3D forms as interactive services locally and over networks.

Decorator Pattern Usage on a Simplified Pacman Game

9 Dec 2013 by Petar Brkusanin

An example of how Decorator, Dependency Injection, and Composition Root patterns can be used to extend the base game functionality.

Delaunay Triangulation For Fast Mesh Generation

12 Nov 2012 by HoshiKata

Practical on the fly fast mesh generation from arbitrary points.

Developing Single Page Applications with C# Code and Blazor

11 May 2018 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

Most of the examples using Blazor I've seen so far include some simple pages, buttons and forms. So I decided to investigate whether it would work with my old Bricks game to help explore WebAssembly.

Development of a Raycast Engine based on JavaScript Technology

17 Nov 2022 by André Marcos (Advisor), José Cláudio Silva, Victor Lopes

This work proposes the development of a Raycast engine in JavaScript to facilitate the 3D game development.

Diligent Engine: A Modern Cross-Platform Low-Level Graphics Library

18 Aug 2023 by EgorYusov

This article introduces Diligent Engine, a modern cross-platform graphics API abstraction library and rendering framework

Don’t Build Games from Scratch Part 1: Creating and Deploying Multiplayer Servers on Azure PlayFab

23 Nov 2021 by Raphael Mun

In this article, we explore packaging then deploying a game to Azure PlayFab servers.

Azure

PowerShell

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Double-Dartris

24 Apr 2014 by Fredrik Bornander

Implementing a Tetris-like game for the web using Dart

EnigmaPuzzle

16 Nov 2011 by Michael Hodel

Enigma Puzzle – a game as difficult as the Rubik's cube

Enriching the online experience of the game 'Go' with Windows Azure

3 May 2013 by TYoungjr

An outline for a plan to build a real time, multiplayer, cross platform edition of the game Go.

EpPathFinding.cs- A Fast Path Finding Algorithm (Jump Point Search) in C# (grid-based)

1 Jul 2015 by Chris La

A jump point search algorithm for grid based games in C#

Exploring Electronic Game Development 2D Supported by Unity Engine

17 Nov 2022 by André Marcos (Advisor), José Cláudio Silva, Victor Lopes

Unity Engine support for Electronic 2D game development

Unity2D

Unity

game

Fighter Space Ship Game

23 Oct 2012 by sandeepkumar.sgnr

As the name suggests, you will be driving a space ship in galaxy and protecting yourself from meteors. Now to show ultrabook capability with the game I will be using touch and accelerometer.

FirstWins Pathfinding Algorithm

7 Feb 2017 by O.G.I.

Pathfinding algorithm based on a direction priority

Fluid Simulation for Video Games (part 17)

28 May 2014 by Dr. Michael J. Gourlay

This article—the 17th in the series—describes how to identify a fluid surface. You can use this information to render the surface or to help compute surface tension.

product-showcase

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Game Companies Speed Up Development with Intel® Sample Code

26 May 2015 by Intel

Game Companies Speed Up Development with Intel® Sample Code

DirectX

product-showcase

game

Game Engine using SDL2 and ZetScript

10 Jul 2021 by jespa007

Example game engine by using SDL2 and ZetScript

C++

scripting

game

Game of life: Code solution in C#

7 Mar 2012 by Kailash Shastri

An Object Oriented solution to Conway's Game of life problem in C#

Game Puzzle

29 Jun 2011 by Reza Mansoori

This is an easy game puzzle for beginners.

Windows

game

Gameloft and Intel: Working Together to Bring High Quality Graphics to x86 Android

1 May 2015 by Intel

In this article I will describe the effects implemented by Gameloft in GTR2 and focus on how we managed to fit those effects into the 30 frames per second (FPS) budget we had set ourselves.

Greg The Robot - Game Dev with TypeScript

26 Nov 2017 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

A shoot'n'up HTML5 game made with Phaser game framework

Group Sudoku in AngularJs and SignalR

14 Apr 2021 by Anurag Gandhi

A group Sudoku game to demonstrate the usage of SignalR in AngularJs application

Guess My Drawing!

9 Jan 2013 by Albara Hakami

A Windows Forms application to share a whiteboard with many clients with only one drawer, in a gamy way.

Hasta la Vista Winter: Time to Spring into Adventure with your Significant Other

15 Apr 2016 by Android on Intel

Whether it’s a friendly battle, classic gaming strategy, or a fast-paced adventure, these apps will surely set the pace for a positive spring ahead.

Android

game

Hex 2048 - Morph

23 Sep 2023 by Christ Kennedy

A game to waste your hours

Hex 2048 - A Numbers Game - C#2022

6 Oct 2020 by Christ Kennedy

A graphically bouncy and colorful version of the popular numbers tile-sliding game

Home Automation with Microsoft Kinect Point Cloud and Speech Recognition

10 Jan 2015 by Dan Thyer

Use a Microsoft Kinect to control the home automation in the house. Lights can be turned on an off from speech recognition or from pointing at them and waving your other hand one way to turn on and the other way to turn off.

How Intel is working to get new, young programmers into Android Development

17 Apr 2014 by Christopher Coey

An educator's look into Beacon Mountain.

How to Correctly Manage Screen Resolutions in Game Programming

2 Dec 2011 by Vasily Tserekh

Correctly managing screen resolutions in game programming

game

How to Make a Mini Minecraft Game

6 Dec 2019 by Vahe Karamian

Programming in itself is no small task. Graphics programming complicate things a tab-bit more!

How to perform fading transitions on Textures in XNA 4.0 using Interpolation Timers

7 Jul 2012 by CJ Kent

Create an Interpolating Timer and use it to fade textures in and out in XNA 4.0

How to Use C Compiler for Reverse Engineering

27 Jul 2020 by Member 13737597

This article shows how to bring the power of real C compiler for reverse engineering purposes.

HTML App Cache in action, create local copies of webpages

15 Jan 2015 by Guruprasad.K.Basavaraju

An MVC application to make a copy of CodeProject articles in your Browser Cache using HTML5's AppCache feature

HTML Game using Canvas and Javascript

17 Jul 2015 by Guruprasad.K.Basavaraju

This article is an effort to introduce beginners to HTML Canvas through a simple Game development.

Interception of Two Moving Objects in 2D Space

13 May 2015 by Mike Oberberger

Compute a velocity vector which allows a first moving object to intercept a second moving object given known positions and current velocities within a game or simulation environment

Interview with Intel® Software Innovator Peach Pellen

31 Jul 2015 by Android on Intel

Peach Pellen, CTO of Black Gate Games talks about her background, her work with Black Gate Games, and what projects she’s working on at the moment.

Mobile

game

Journey of Windows 8 Game (SkyWar) for Intel App Up Using MonoGame Framework

8 Jan 2013 by sandeepkumar.sgnr

Journey of Windows 8 game SkyWar for Intel App Up competition

Journey of Windows 8 game (SkyWar) for Intel App Up using MonoGame Framework

8 Jan 2013 by sandeepkumar.sgnr

This article is all about my experience of developing a SkyWar game for CodeProject’s Intel AppUp competition.

Joystick Driver Project

10 Feb 2013 by Work Damnit!

Need to control something with a Joystick in Windows? Here is an easy to use driver that will help you do it.

Kaldoku Game

4 Feb 2024 by KrirkDev

Kaldoku - a Sudoku like puzzle game

game

Kinect Reception

12 Jan 2012 by Shai Raiten

TV Screen in the Reception, When nothing happens (no one is in the reception) we can display videos on the screen but when someone enters the frame show him the Kinect Image, and if the user is doing something funny, capture his image and save it.

Latin Crossword Puzzle - Ludum Verborum

14 Apr 2019 by Christ Kennedy

si latine discis ludum verborum habere debes

Visual-Studio

Design

game

Leaderboard for Windows Phone 7 XNA Game

27 Feb 2012 by BillLange1968

Solution for creating a Leaderboard for a Windows Phone 7 (WP7) XNA game

Learning XNA 2D Engine IceCream With 1945 Demo Project

8 Aug 2012 by Tyler Forsythe

IceCream1945 is a demonstration of XNA and the IceCream 2D library in a 2D top-down scrolling shooter similar to 1942 for the NES.

Making a 2D Physics Engine: The Math

29 Jan 2018 by Arav Singhal

An introduction to all the math required to get started on your own 2D physics engine

MasterGrab: PC Strategy Game, Easy to Learn, Fun to Win. Also Write Your Own C# Game Robot!

25 Dec 2023 by Peter Huber SG

Do you need a 10 minute break or want to do some mental warmup before programming? This free game is for you.

WPF

game

Mastering Unity 2D Game Development – AI and State Machines

2 Sep 2014 by Simon Jackson

Mastering Unity 2D Game Development – AI and State Machines

Unity3D

game

MEAN Stack Development Technologies Supporting a Web Tool for Arcade Game Players Collaboration

10 Dec 2020 by André Marcos (Advisor), LaercioMBR

An overview of the development process of an online platform to facilitate community driven data cataloging and management.

Middleware in Game Development

15 Apr 2016 by Android on Intel

Whether you are looking for an entire game engine to develop your idea into a game, or an efficient easy-to-use video codec to deploy full motion video, this list will guide you to the best middleware to use while developing your game for Intel® architecture.

Android

artificial-intelligence

game

Migration - Strategy Game

7 Nov 2022 by Terence Wallace

A VB.NET implementation of a city-building game with real-time strategy elements.

game

MineCraft Server Management

28 Apr 2013 by Ed Nutting

A wrapper application making management, modding and running multiple MineCraft servers faster and easier.

Monster Set of FREE Resources for Game Design

22 Sep 2013 by Simon Jackson

Free resources for game design.

More Explicit Diligent Engine: Getting on Top of State Management in Direct3D12 and Vulkan

22 Dec 2018 by EgorYusov

This article introduces the problem of resource state management and synchronization in modern graphics APIs such as Direct3D12 and Vulkan and describes a solution offered by Diligent Engine.

Mr. Crossworder - Create Crosswords in Seconds!

6 Jan 2019 by Mehedi Shams

Crossword creator - with a touch of Unicode Logic!

Ms. Wordbler - A Cute Little Warbler!

11 Apr 2019 by Mehedi Shams

Word-making game!

MVC Bricks for ASP.net

4 May 2011 by Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira

Learn how to create a simple game using ASP.net MVC, jQuery, State Machine and CSS3 gradients

MVC Web API and AngularJS For Are You Genius Game

4 Oct 2015 by syed shanu

This article shows how to create a Are You Genius game using MVC, AngularJS and Web API 2.

MVC Web API and AngularJS for Image Puzzle Game

3 Sep 2015 by syed shanu

How to use MVC, AngularJS and Web API 2 and create a word puzzle game

Not built in a day - lessons learned on Total War: ROME II

17 Jan 2014 by Paul Lindberg

This case study details how the game takes best advantage of low-power systems, while still scaling up to look and run fantastic on more robust systems.

Old Games Launcher

31 May 2012 by webmaster442

A DirectDraw game launcher & DosBox frontend written in C#

Online Backgammon

19 Nov 2022 by KristianEkman

An online Angular, .NET 7 Web API, SQL Server on Azure backgammon game

Optimizing Android Game mTricks Looting Crown on the Intel® Atom™ Platform

6 Jul 2015 by Android on Intel

This article shows how to analyze and improve the performance of a mobile game and how to optimize graphic resources for a mobile platform, using mTricks Looting Crown as an example.

P.T.M.C.: Landscape & Mines

11 Oct 2019 by Christ Kennedy