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Articles by Bryan

The Easy Way to Create Characters Sprites

Sprite Character Generator

Character Sprites What Is A Character Sprite? A character sprite is a simple 2D video game graphic included as part of a broader environment. For example, The characters in Final Fantasy VI, The Legend of Zelda, Pokemon Red, and Castlevania are all sprites. They are 2D bitmaps included in the overall game world and move […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 23, 2023

Become A Better Artist With Substance Painter

Create Great Art with Substance Painter

Do You Need Substance Painter? If you are an artist of any stripe, Substance Painter can be an amazingly useful tool. Substance Painter focuses mostly on painting textures onto models. Substance Painter ups the ante on painting assets than you would normally get in other programs like those in the Adobe Suite of programs. If […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 3, 2023

Master These Game Elements To Elevate Your Game

Basic Game Elements

What Makes A Game A Game? We play games all the time, but are we all intimately familiar with the core concepts of game elements and mechanics that make up our favorite titles? The very concept of a game is a form of play, structured to entertain, educate, or kill time. Lately, games have often […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 3, 2023

Breaking Down the Different Ways to Save Game Data in Unity

Save Your Game in Unity

Picture it: you are in the middle of creating the game of your dreams. Everything seems to be going well, but you can’t for the life of you figure out how to have players save their game progress. If you are anything like us, you compulsively save after every significant game event, (and sometimes create […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 12, 2023

Game UX: How To Improve A Gamer’s User Experience

Game UX

What is Games ‘User Experience’ (UX) …and How Does It Help? When you boot up your computer, click on your browser of choice and begin scrolling through social media, what sticks in your mind? Is it incremental new features? The colors? Is the app or website you are using easy on the eyes? All of […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 12, 2023

Texture Packager and Learn to Make Resource Packs

Texture Pack

While playing classic games like Minecraft can be visually stimulating, the lengths to which someone can spice up the graphics are impressive. For Lord of the Rings fans out there, people used mods and texture packs to create a life-sized replica of the Mines of Moria, a staggeringly large underground environment seen in the franchise. […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 23, 2023

Improve Your Design Skills with Unity Playmaker

Unity Playmaker

When choosing a game engine, the future game developer must pick something that works for them. Are you more into big-budget blockbusters with brain-busting action and a bevy of brilliant visuals? Maybe choose something with impressive horsepower like the Unreal Engine. However, if you are just starting out, there are quite a few options to […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 23, 2023

Getting Started With Roblox Scripting

Roblox Coding

Game development used to seem like a far-fetched idea that only big studios could undertake. What if you wanted to create your own game, according to your rules? Furthermore, what if you wanted to share your awesome new game with a bunch of other like-minded gamers and game developers? There’s some good news: the Roblox […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 18, 2023

Don’t Get Stuck In A Game Loop: The Importance of A Well-Defined Core Gameplay Loop

Game Loop

What Is a Game Loop? The game loop refers to the overall flow of the game program. It is referred to as a ‘loop,’ as the program keeps looping infinitely until manually stopped. As you can probably imagine, there is a ton of variety in game loops and which games loop in specific frames per […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 18, 2023

Shaders in Game Design: Origin, Basic Design Types, and How to Create Your Own

Graphic Shaders

Overview What Are Shaders in Games? When you see the term ‘shader’ about a video game, it’s a program used to render different pixels. Shaders in games are used when detailing shadows, lighting, texture gradients, and more. However, they can do a lot more than just their namesake. You can often see shaders being packaged […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 3, 2023

Deferred Rendering Is Here To Save The Day!

Deferred Rendering

What is Deferred Rendering? Deferred rendering is when rendering isn’t part of the first part of the animation pipeline, saving it instead for the very end. Think of post-production effects in movies added after filming. Deferred rendering offers valuable opportunities for animators, as it can cut down the amount of needlessly complicated work by a […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 15, 2023

Board Game Design Tutorials and Start Guide

Board Game Design

You can probably picture it: a cold, dark night. A violent thunderstorm has taken out the power, and you and your friends are forced to make your own fun without the aid of electronics. This is where the reliable backbone of entertainment comes in: board games. Whether it’s chess or Settlers of Catan, board games […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 3, 2023

Special Effects Artist: Job Description and Career Roadmap of An SFX Makeup Artist

SFX Artists

SFX and VFX: What’s the Difference? Purpose of Special Effects They are there to illustrate to the audience the creator’s intention of creating a different world in which fantastic things can happen. This is done through various things like simulated weather, complex animatronic beasts, or grisly, gory effects in a horror movie. Visual Effects in […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on September 27, 2022

What Can You Do With GIMP? 12 Simple and Easy GIMP Hacks

GIMP Beginner's Guide

When I started becoming computer literate in the early to mid-2000s, a thing I noticed quickly was how many clever and funny images existed on the Internet, created using what seemed to be Adobe Photoshop. Of course, my young enquiring mind needed to know how to replicate these images with my own personal touch, of […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 15, 2023

6 Drawing Tablets For Aspiring Artists That Work Like A Dream (Highly Recommended)

Top drawing tablets for designers of all levels

I remember agreeing to meet up with a friend in a coffee shop one fine summer day. Being the type-A planner I am, I decided to arrive super early for no particular reason at all than to be on time. When I got there, I was, of course, the first one there, but there was […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on December 16, 2022

Learn How to Draw the 4 Basic Anime Poses: Running, Ballet, Punching, Throwing

Anime Drawing Techniques

I was perusing the Internet as I often do, and I found a video of the talented team of animators who were in charge of creating environments and stills for the 1988 movie, Akira. If you haven’t seen Akira, it takes place in an unfriendly and foreboding urban, post-apocalyptic Tokyo, (named ‘Neo-Tokyo’), populated by biker […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 18, 2023

GameMaker Studio: GameMaker Games and Tutorials

GameMaker Studio Maker

We are always on the hunt for some of the best gaming engines around that balance ease of access, quality, and more. So when we came across GameMaker Studio 2, we had to do a deep dive into the games that were created with the engine. To quickly sum it up, GameMaker Studio 2 is […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 23, 2023

Video Game Voice Acting: Starter Guide

Video Game Voice Acting

Video game audio had a pretty humble beginning nearly 5 decades ago. In essence, 8-bit music used a very simple synthesizer to create basic audio for games. Interestingly enough, old-school Atari 2600 ROM cartridges could only hold around 4-8 Kbs of data, and even something like SNES cartridges maxed out at 4Mbs. With so little […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 3, 2023

Make Your Own Green Screen

How to Make A Green Screen

You’ve probably heard the term ‘Green Screen’ quite a lot, and you’re probably somewhat familiar with what it is; a flat, green fabric placed in the background that you can impose an image on. Interestingly, ‘green screen’ is actually a bit of a misnomer, as the whole process itself is called ‘Chroma Key Compositing’ or […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 3, 2023

Earn Your Art Degree Online: Online Art Degree Program Map & Accredited Online Art Schools

Online Art Degree

One of my new favorite pastimes is logging onto the Twitch stream one of my artist friends has. On it, she’ll take requests from the viewing audience as to what to draw. What follows is an awesome show of skill and breathtaking talent. People always ask, “how did you get so good at art?” and […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on June 21, 2021

How to Get an Associates Degree in Programming

Associate's Degree in Programming

What Is Programming? If you aren’t familiar with computer programming, it is the creation of executable computer programs and files by using lines of code. In simpler terms, it’s using a ‘language’ to build programs and applications. Everything you access on the computer has been coded in some way, shape, or form. The versatile world […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 3, 2023

What You Can Do With A Master’s In Animation: Education, Career Path, Schools To Attend

Master's in Animation

There is a lot to consider when setting out to achieve a degree in any field. Everyone knows it’s somewhat of a Herculean task to get a law degree or medical degree. Maybe you’d be surprised to find out that getting a master’s in a field like animation is also nothing to turn your nose […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 15, 2023

A Guide to Retro Game Collecting in 2023

retro Game Collecting

What is Video Game Collecting? While at face value this might seem pretty straightforward, you have to remember that video games are a massive industry that’s been going for nearly 40 years now. That means that being a video game collector is no longer just about getting a hold of any game you can, but […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 23, 2023

Teaching Kids to Make Video Games: Start With Kid-Friendly Programming

Video Game Development for Kids

I will never forget the day that I saw my young cousin glued to his iPad, playing Angry Birds. We were on vacation and my family was begging him to put the iPad down and join in the family fun. But he would not be swayed; he felt the call of the birds. That was […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 3, 2023

GML: Create Cross-Platform Video Games in GameMaker Studio

GML Tutorial

If you don’t know by now, GameMaker Studio 2 is a fantastic little engine that emphasizes cross-platform development and plays. If you’re interested in all you need to know about GameMaker, check out our in-depth review, including tutorials. What Programming Language Does GameMaker Use? Believe it or not, GameMaker engine has its own programming language, […]

Written by Bryan Wirtz - Updated on January 23, 2023

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