Phaser 3: ES6 Webpack Project Template
So I’ve been playing around with Phaser 3 a lot lately and one of the biggest issues for me was getting it up and running with Babel and Webpack along with writing unit tests...
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The Game Plan: Minimum Viable Product
In the previous posts we talked about how to create a budget for your game, some helpful tips if you’re not a programmer and finally we went over the best ways to help you in getting started. Now...
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Game Finances: Amortization
What Is Amortization? This is an accounting term for taking multiple payments over time or spreading a single payment out over a period of time. Example 1: Taking Multiple Payments One way you can...
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The Game Plan: Creating A Budget
Now that you’ve designed a plan for your game and you’ve figured out whether or not you’ll be programming it yourself it’s time to make your budget. At first you might be thinking, why...
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The Game Plan: I’m Not A Programmer
If you’ve been following my Game Plan series then you’ve already put your game idea to paper and have a game design document done along with a set of small, easy to complete tasks...
Share the Love! Free Programming eBooks
GoalKicker.com is giving away these free programming books and I thought I would share the love for anyone who hasn’t seen them yet. There are more available from their website but these are the...
GIT Tutorial: Fetching and Testing Pull Request Branches Locally
There are a lot of times when you’re using Git and BitBucket in a work environment and you want to be able to test someone’s PR branch without having to download a patch or...
Tutorial: Flexbox dividers with positioned labels over top
It’s so frustrating to make a horizontal ruler with label text positioned on top of it. There are many different ways to do it but they require a lot of custom CSS that makes...
Highcharts Tutorial: Set Custom Tooltip Date Format
I spent a good 4 hours trying to figure out how to get HighCharts to use a custom date in the tooltip without using the custom tooltip formatter. Geesh! Why is it so painful??...
Jasmine Tutorial: Unit Testing Promises in AngularJS Services
So recently I’ve been doing a lot of Angular unit tests with Jasmine and Grunt. I have to say, testing promises is extremely frustrating and most of the examples I found out there either...
Tutorial: Black Box Testing
What Is Testing? Testing is a way to check if your software is running properly by purposefully trying to find errors so they can be corrected or prevented from happening in the future. Why...
HTML5 Game Tutorial: Alien Invasion
This is a little side project I did this week that I would like to share. It’s forked from another project I found on gitHub and liked it so much I decided to spend some time...
Sample Angular Website
So I’ve seen a lot of people using AngularJS but I see very few examples of a website made using it. That’s why I decided to post an example website to give you an...
The Game Plan: Getting Started
Your game design can run fairly smoothly or it can be a continuous cesspool of hardships and setbacks and pain points. In the next few series of posts I’m going to try and help walk...
Javascript Tutorial: Recursive Promise Calls
The Reason So in trying to help a co-worker I was looking for an example of how you can do recursive promise calls. To my surprise I didn’t find any soooo now you get...
