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Let’s Create A Game – 2D Side-Scrolling Shooter

Dominik Hackl

In my new series „Let’s Create A Game” I’m developing a full-scale game, producing everything from code to graphics on my own. In parallel to my YouTube videos I will release a written and more in-depth version on my blog after each episode.
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About the Author

Dominik Hackl

I’m a programmer, who happens to be partially skilled at arts and music as well and thus decided to become a game developer. In the past, I was mostly developing 2D games for Windows and Android while doing every part of the development process myself. This started with writing the game engine code and ended with composing an original score for the games. In the last years I started to focus more on 3D games as well as Virtual and Augmented Reality.

A technical description of 2D platformers

Dominik Hackl

The 2D platformer enjoyed its major hype back in the 90s with blockbuster series like Super Mario, Mega Man, Sonic, Donkey Kong Country and many, many more. Nowadays the genre is witnessing kind of a renaissance, mostly through the new range of indie developers.

In this article I try to cover the major technical aspects on implementing a 2D platformer game.
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About the Author

Dominik Hackl

I’m a programmer, who happens to be partially skilled at arts and music as well and thus decided to become a game developer. In the past, I was mostly developing 2D games for Windows and Android while doing every part of the development process myself. This started with writing the game engine code and ended with composing an original score for the games. In the last years I started to focus more on 3D games as well as Virtual and Augmented Reality.

3 reasons why I’m using MonoGame

Dominik Hackl

The XNA framework was Microsoft’s attempt to reach a wide range of game developers, including professionals as well as indie developers while targeting their different platforms Windows, Xbox 360 and Windows Phone. Although the framework was used and loved by many developers, Microsoft quit its further development in 2014 with version XNA 4.0.

Still this doesn’t mean that it’s dead. Thanks to MonoGame, an open source implementation of the XNA API, there is a great alternative, that not only guarantees a nearly 100% code reuse but also allows cross-platform development for a lot of targets, including Android, iOS and Linux. Continue reading →

About the Author

Dominik Hackl

I’m a programmer, who happens to be partially skilled at arts and music as well and thus decided to become a game developer. In the past, I was mostly developing 2D games for Windows and Android while doing every part of the development process myself. This started with writing the game engine code and ended with composing an original score for the games. In the last years I started to focus more on 3D games as well as Virtual and Augmented Reality.