2D Game Development: From Zero To Hero

Devlog

• Version 0.7.11 - It's about time
  August 05, 2024 by Penaz

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  #Update

  Hey everyone, it has been a long minute, hasn't it? After 4 revisions for version 0.7.10, I think the project has changed enough to warrant a new (minor) version, so here's version 0.7.11! About time... Continue reading
• Version 0.7.10 is out: Missing the trees for the forest!
  March 08, 2024 by Penaz

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  Hello everyone. Two updates less than one month apart? I know, it's crazy. What happened Since the 0.7.9 release there has been a single revision, due to me wanting to put my stance on AI on (electron... Continue reading
• Version 0.7.9 is live & status of the project @2024-02-18
  February 18, 2024 by Penaz

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  Hello everyone. Hope you're all doing well. Version 0.7.9 of the book is live. This has been quite the sudden decision, I added a few new code examples that I thought were going to be useful to people... Continue reading
• The Survey is Live!
  December 29, 2023 by Penaz

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  Hello everyone, The official survey for "2D Game Development: From Zero to Hero" is live! This survey uses Google Sheets, but I disabled any kind of email gathering that may have been enabled. Any con... Continue reading
• Status of the Project @2023-12-26
  December 26, 2023 by Penaz

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  Hello everyone. It has been a while since I've last written one of these posts. The project is absolutely not dead, but I'm having a really difficult time adding content. What happened In a few words:... Continue reading
• Status of the Project @2023-05-24
  May 24, 2023 by Penaz

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  Greetings everyone. On May 13th this project hit its fourth birthday. In these four years it has seen a growth that I would have never imagined and with such growth come more challenges and a tiny bit... Continue reading
• Version 0.7.6 is available!
  March 12, 2023 by Penaz

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  Hello everyone, hope you're all doing great! After the "version of many revisions", I decided it was time to give this upcoming release a new version name. A lot has been fixed in the 13 reviews that... Continue reading
• Poll!
  February 10, 2023 by Penaz

  Greetings Everyone! I have opened a poll on Twitter to get some feedback about the future of "2D Game Development: From Zero to Hero". The poll is discussing how the book should be distributed, consid... Continue reading
• Status of the project @ 2023-01-14
  January 14, 2023 by Penaz

  Hello there, Things have been quite slow with the holidays and everything, so there aren't really any news to speak of. The newest release of "2D Game Development: From Zero to Hero" will feature a fe... Continue reading
• Status of the project @ 2022-11-19
  November 19, 2022 by Penaz

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  Greetings everyone. As probably many of you noticed, version 0.7.5 of the book is "the one of revisions aplenty": I've been notified of mistakes and unclear subjects via GitHub and I did my best to cl... Continue reading
• Version 0.7.5 is out (aka "Wait, that's a bitwise xor!")
  October 03, 2022 by Penaz

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  Greetings everyone, While writing some more content for the book (and hoping to release a "version 0.8") I realized that the JavaScript edition had a major flaw: it used the ^ symbol as "exponentiatio... Continue reading
• Behind the scenes: an in-depth look
  October 01, 2022 by Penaz

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  Greetings everyone. I have thought for a long of making a post like this, where I would talk about how the book is made, the tools(and the shameless hacks) that are behind every page. Let's take a dee... Continue reading

  
• Status of the Project @ 2022-09-05
  September 05, 2022 by Penaz

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  Greetings everyone, Let's say it as it is: with just 11 commits in over 3 months, the project has slowed down considerably. TL;DR: Things are hard, the project is going really slow and I'm totally lac... Continue reading
• Version 0.7.4 is out now!
  June 04, 2022 by Penaz

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  After almost 3 months, we have an update! The entire book has been proof-read and some awkward wording has been fixes, as well as some minor (and major) mistakes. New content New content has been adde... Continue reading
• Version 0.7.3-Beta1 is out!
  March 06, 2022 by Penaz

  Hello everyone. After about a month, I decided to throw out a new version, which features some new content and some corrections and improvements. Let's take a look at what happened. Lua (kinda) joins... Continue reading
• A new revision appeared: version 0.7.2-r3 is live!
  February 05, 2022 by Penaz

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  Hello everyone! I decided to put out a small "maintenance release" of this book, to fix some issues and show that this project is still alive. Here's a very quick list of the changes: Fixed an issue w... Continue reading
• A wild revision appeared! (0.7.2-r1)
  December 09, 2021 by Penaz

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  Hello everyone! Here is a minor revision of the book, thanks to Nivanchenko on GitHub for highlighting a glaring mistake on the distance formulas and fixing it too! This release sees more under-the-ho... Continue reading
• Version 0.7.2 has been released!
  November 04, 2021 by Penaz

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  Hello everyone! After quite a bit of work, version 0.7.2 has been released! I missed my self-imposed deadline by a few days, but at the same time I wanted to get a new version out there, even more aft... Continue reading
• Status of the project @ 2021-10-26: Missing the deadline
  October 26, 2021 by Penaz

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  Hello everyone. Things have not been going as I expected, such is life, so here I am to give you all an update on the project and inform you all that I won't make the (self-imposed) deadline of the en... Continue reading
• Status of the Project @ 2021-10-06
  October 06, 2021 by Penaz

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  Hello everyone! I know I have been silent for a while and I apologize, but after the burnout and some real life woes we are finally back with another update! There have been a lot of things going on,... Continue reading
• Maintenance Release: Version 0.7.1 is out!
  August 12, 2021 by Penaz

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  Hello everyone, A very small update where I will include what changed since version 0.7.0 (including 0.7.0-r1). Version 0.7.0-r1 was released after I got notified of a couple of minor mistakes in some... Continue reading
• Version 0.7.0 is out now: 400 pages (and burnout)
  June 01, 2021 by Penaz

  Hello everyone. After some minimal quality assurance, I finally managed to bring to you those sweet sweet 400 pages of book. Here we will see a bit of what changed, what's new, what's old and what's h... Continue reading
• Status of the Project @ 2021-05-23
  May 23, 2021 by Penaz

  Hello everyone! Long time no see. Road to 400 pages Work is going forward to bring you 400 pages of content (and indices): after analyzing and weighing the options, I finally found a somewhat easy way... Continue reading
• Status of the project @2021-04-30
  April 30, 2021 by Penaz

  Hello everyone, time for another (minor) status update! I wanted this to be a weekly thing, but as usual work has not been kind to me. So here we are, much later than I wanted to be, with some status... Continue reading
• Oops, something went wrong
  April 11, 2021 by Penaz

  Very short update: I released the version 0.6.7-beta of the ebook with a glaring mistake, due to one of the lua filters that looked like it was working, while it was not. The epub version has been hid... Continue reading
• Status of the project @ 2021-04-09
  April 09, 2021 by Penaz

  Hello everyone, time for another update! Design Patterns I decided to add placeholders for new and useful design patterns, like Visitor, Decorator, and Adapter. Since the design patterns section is go... Continue reading
• Version 0.6.6 is out now!
  March 21, 2021 by Penaz

  After two months of no releases, it's time for a new maintenance release! New covers, lots of tweaks under the hood, preparation for an Epub edition, and some new content! (You're already up to speed... Continue reading
• Status of the Project @ 2021-03-19
  March 19, 2021 by Penaz

  Hello everyone, time for an (overdue) update! Things have been quite hard in general, due to the current pandemic and the insane amount of anxiety it generates. So I actively chose to not give any upd... Continue reading

  
• Status of the Project @ 2021-03-05
  March 05, 2021 by Penaz

  Hello everyone, here comes another small update! EPub Edition The "Epub adaptation" is slowly coming together, but I still have a lot of issues here and there, usually due to problems given by SVG ima... Continue reading

  
• Status of the Project @ 2021-02-27
  February 27, 2021 by Penaz

  Hello everyone! Small update on the status of the project, mostly on how things are going. Like the best of potatoes, I'm working "underground" to adapt the project to be easier to contribute to, as w... Continue reading

  
• Status of the Project and Future Plans
  February 21, 2021 by Penaz

  Hello Everyone! I felt it was right to give everyone an update on the status of this project. The ones who looked at the GitHub Repo or at the GitLab Repo probably noticed that updates are few and far... Continue reading
• Version 0.6.5 is out!
  January 17, 2021 by Penaz

  Hello everyone Here's yet another maintenance release, nothing too crazy going on here! Let's check out what's new. New section - Project Ideas: This section will try to suggest some projects to chall... Continue reading
• Version 0.6.4 is out!
  December 07, 2020 by Penaz

  After a bit of work, a new version of this book is out! This is more of a maintenance release than anything else, sadly my job doesn't allow for much research and writing. Let's see what's new: Fancy... Continue reading
• Version 0.6.3 is out!
  November 10, 2020 by Penaz

  The maintenance 0.6.3 release is out! I simply fixed some things here and there, as well as adding some new sections that will be further expanded: Midpoint Displacement Algorithm Diamond/Square Algor... Continue reading

  
• The project is still alive!
  September 26, 2020 by Penaz

  Hello everyone. No attachments and no updates for today, I just wanted to inform everyone that the project is still alive and active, even though my day job doesn't leave me much time (and energy) to... Continue reading
• Version 0.6.2 is out! (the 300 page update)
  August 15, 2020 by Penaz

  After a bit of work, this book has reached 300 pages in length! This is mostly a maintenance release, here are the biggest updates: Added some tile creation tips New "Accessibility in videogames" sect... Continue reading
• Version 0.6.1 is out
  July 18, 2020 by Penaz

  After a good bit of work, version 0.6.1 of "2D Game Development: From Zero to Hero" is out. In this maintenance release we have: A fix for a wrong implementation of invincibility frames A better expla... Continue reading