From a question ask in the official SFML forum which linked to a tutorial by Anthony Lewis at GameDevGeek.com I took the challenge up on me and converted that small game engine or maybe it would be better just called a state machine from SDL to SFML. In the near future I also hope to […]
Author: Lukas
TileMapCreator – Update 02
Nearly two month have passed since the last update on the TileMapCreator and I kind of feel bad about it. For my excuse I’m studying for my upcoming big exam. Last time I was talking about the grid and how I want it to improve; I’ve spend quite some time thinking and trying out things, […]
Using sf::View
I’ve been using SFML now for more than a year but I never really understood how sf::View really works, until now. So I feel like sharing this enlightenment and I’ll also create a tutorial in the wiki section on GitHub. What can a sf::View do? This question is not that complicated to answer and I […]
Tutorial: How To Change Your Cursor?
I’ve just published my first tutorial with SFML, okay it’s actually not fully my tutorial since I’ve partially rewritten one from the old section, but expanded it with in my opinion a better solution.Although you can find the tutorial on the wiki site of SFML, I post it here again. How to change your cursor? […]
TileMapCreator – Update 01
As promised here comes a small update on the TileMapCreator; screenshot first: So this must seem disappointing, nothing really changed, except maybe the gray square on the grid. But then again I’ll have to remind you that TMC is far from being useable and the biggest changes will happen in the codebase which then again […]
TileMapCreator – A GUI Tool
Whenever you’re thinking about creating a tile based game you end up with some hackish format for loading tiles. There’s no good way to edit the format and if you forget which number represents which image you’re lost. Although I’ve never really come close to a functioning tile based game, I often failed at the […]
Welcome to My Development Blog
Although I already maintain a blog, I always wanted to write even more about my adventures in the development section. It was actually one of the main reason I started the other blog and if you look closely you could also find quite a few few posts about programming stuff. Now as I got deeper […]