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Posted on 17 February, 201822 February, 2018

Making a 2D platform game with Godot 3.0

A few weeks ago I stumbled upon the game engine Godot and I decided to give it a try by learning how to use it for creating a 2D platform…

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Posted on 6 January, 2018

A memory game with React

During Christmas I got a little bit bored so I spent some time creating a simple memory game with React, JavaScript and a set of old nature photographs of mine.…

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Posted on 7 October, 201526 October, 2018

Adventures in Swift: Playing with CMMotionManager and gravity

I recently added an iOS game embryo to GitHub: https://github.com/LarsBergqvist/GravityBall It’s a SpriteKit-based game in Swift 2.0 where you tilt the device to roll a spike ball around with the aim…

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Posted on 16 September, 201521 August, 2017

Adventures in Swift: Making a blasting shoot’em up

For further fun and learning with Swift and game design, I decided to make a space shoot’em up in classic style for iOS. The code for the game can be…

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Posted on 5 September, 20156 September, 2015

Adventures in Swift: simplifying platform game level design with SpriteKit

Since my formative Commodore days (and even before with Colecovision), I’ve always loved platform games, and now I’ve found a fun programming exercise in making one for iOS. I have already…

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Posted on 31 August, 20156 September, 2016

Adventures in Swift: exploring SpriteKit

I decided to have a go at Apple’s programming language Swift, and for some extra fun I opted for making a simple SpriteKit game for OS X. I have made…

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