Tag Archives: tutorial

How to make a multi-player game – part 2

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Paul Firth

Hello and welcome back to my blog! This is part 2 in the series where I talk about making a multi-player game. Last time we built a TCP socket server in node.js and we’re able to send and receive complex … Continue reading →

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Understanding binary

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Paul Firth

Hello and welcome back to my blog! In a kind of follow up to 10 steps to becoming a better programmer, this time I wanted to write about binary and binary operations, because I’ve been rather surprised by the number … Continue reading →

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How to make a multi-player game – part 1

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Paul Firth

Hello and welcome back to my blog! Its been a while since my last post, this is because I’ve been working on a multi-player game, called mmoAsteroids which you can play by clicking on the icon on the side-bar. This … Continue reading →

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Composing in-game music – retro style

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Paul Firth

Hello, and welcome back to my blog! Its time for another guest post – I commissioned this one after a very long search to find an artist talented enough and with the right skill-set for composing in game music in … Continue reading →

Posted in Chip tunes, Music, Platform game, Technical | Tagged , , , | 6 Comments

Implementing a wrap-around world

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Paul Firth

Hello and welcome back to my blog! This time I’m going to be talking about something related to the game I’m currently working on, which is a little asteroids style MMO: a wrap-around world. This was necessary because the asteroids … Continue reading →

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Fun with convex polygons

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Paul Firth

Hello and welcome back to my blog! I wanted to talk about a couple of elegant ways of working with polygons that I’ve used over the years. Simple convex polygon area I’ve seen a lot of people go through and … Continue reading →

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Designing a retro pixel-art tile-set

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Paul Firth

Hello and welcome back to my blog! This time something a little different – I commissioned a guest post about designing a tile-set from a studio who specialise in pixel-art. After searching long and hard to find exactly the right … Continue reading →

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