OpenGL 2D Independent Resolution Rendering
Around two years ago I made a tutorial for XNA in which you could render 2D games scaled to the current window resolution with proper letter-boxes or pillar-boxes. As many...
Detecting C++ memory leaks in Visual Studio – again
I made a small post about detecting C++ memory leaks in Visual Studio in 2010. At the time that seemed to suffice, but some months ago someone told me about...
Xbox 360 Controller Input in C++ via XInput
So you have that Xbox360 controller laying around and want to connect it to your game? On XNA this is an out of the box option but if you’re using...
Cross-Platform engine progress
If you read my recent posts you know I’ve been bringing Basalt to C++. The plan is to support both DirectX and OpenGL render API’s and OpenGLES for iOS devices....
Developers log stardate 26082010
It’s been awhile since I last updated this, I’ve have my hands full with Vizati IPhone. Ever since I got an IPod Touch 2G it was easier for Rita to...
Instance based Callbacks in C++
One of the things that was probably forgotten but the dudes who made C++ standard were callbacks, there’s no out of the box solution for Instance based Callbacks, just for...
How to do a Xna Log file
Although the title says XNA log file this is actually a C# log file, I’ve just thrown this title cause lot’s of people search for xna log instead of C#...
Building an 2D Game Engine in XNA – Part 1
I decided to starting writing a series of tutorials for building an 2d XNA game engine. Keep in mind that while the main focus is 2d nothing prevents us from...
Cloning Objects in C#
After trying to manually clone some classes, but making a sort of copy constructor I was always ending up with lot’s of code and worse, if I add another variable...
The amazing lands of C++
I’m sure every programmer will like this