Game audio basics for a small 2D game, from sources to code
Game audio basics for small 2D games: where to find sound effects, licences to check, mixing levels, pitch variation, music loops and playing sound in Rust.
by Felicity Marrable
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Guides, notes and release write-ups, newest first.
How to release a game on Steam: a plain checklist for indies
How to release an indie game on Steam, step by step: the Steam Direct fee, when to open the store page, wishlists, builds and depots, review, and launch day.
by Felicity Marrable
Game jam scoping: plan a 48 or 72 hour game you can finish
How to scope a game jam entry you can actually finish: an hour-by-hour plan, what to cut first, the order to polish in, and how to submit without panic.
by Felicity Marrable
Rust game in the browser: shipping with WebAssembly to itch.io
How to ship a Rust game to the browser: the wasm32 target, WebGL2 or WebGPU, audio that waits for a click, async asset loading, file size and itch.io uploads.
by Kasimir Lund
Pixel art background layers and parallax scrolling in code
How to paint a pixel art background with depth: value and saturation by layer, tileable strips, a parallax factor table and parallax scrolling code.
by Jun Takemura
Pixel art character sprites at 16x16 and 32x32 that read well
Designing a pixel art character that reads at 16x16 and 32x32: silhouette, palette ramps, idle and walk cycles, facing directions and a sheet layout.
by Jun Takemura
Pixel art camera: integer scaling, snapping and smooth follow
A pixel art camera that stays crisp: render to a low resolution target, scale by integers, snap to the pixel grid and follow the player without shimmer.
by Odalys Brisco
Getting started with wgpu: from a window to a textured quad
A friendly map of wgpu for game developers: instance, adapter, device, queue, surface, pipelines and bind groups, then the path to a textured quad and first errors.
by Odalys Brisco
2D lighting with HDR, tonemapping and bloom, step by step
How to light a 2D game with HDR render targets, additive lights, tonemapping and bloom, with small WGSL snippets and a worked example for each pass in the chain.
by Odalys Brisco
ECS for 2D games: what it is, how it works, when to skip it
ECS for 2D games in plain words: entities, components and systems, archetypes versus sparse sets, the hecs and bevy_ecs style, and when a Vec of structs wins.
by Tendai Mukwena
Fixed timestep game loop in Rust: accumulator, clamp, interpolation
A fixed timestep game loop in Rust: why variable delta time breaks physics, the accumulator pattern, a spiral of death clamp, and interpolation for smooth drawing.
by Tendai Mukwena
Macroquad vs Bevy for your first 2D game in Rust
Macroquad or Bevy for a first 2D game in Rust? A fair look at API style, compile times, ECS, ecosystem and web export, plus a table to help you pick one.
by Kasimir Lund