Robot Foot Games Blog

Moving a sprite around the screen – part 1 – point A to point B

Jeff Brown — Sat, 12 May 2012 21:32:59 +0000

We're going back to some basics with this tutorial. I plan on doing a couple of spin-offs of this to address other issues like; facing the direction you're moving, moving along a series of points and some other ways of moving sprites that are a little more complex. So here's the scenario for this part. [...]

Drawing extra symbols (squared/square root) in XNA

Jeff Brown — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:05:59 +0000

I'm starting to work on adding squared (i.e. 6²) and square root (i.e. √169) math to Math Buster 2 and I realized that I wouldn't be able to draw the square/square root symbol out of the box so I needed to modify a spritefont to include these characters. First off, you need a font that [...]

Math Buster 2 Announcement!

Jeff Brown — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:00:19 +0000

It's been a while since we released anything, but that's about to change! What's new and improved in Math Buster 2? The game uses a Silverlight/XNA hybrid, so when you're navigating the menus you'll have an experience that you'll be familiar with and we're using XNA for the gameplay to keep everything nice and smooth! [...]

Ludum Dare 22 – Shadow

Jeff Brown — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:41:12 +0000

Ludum Dare, for those that don't know, is a competition to create a game in just 48 hours (for solo participants, teams can join the 72 hour competition). You have 48 hours to create a game from scratch but you can use publicly available libraries and personal code bases as long as they're open to [...]

Level Editor For Your XNA Platformer Based Games

Jeff Brown — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:49:07 +0000

When I first started out a level editor was beyond my abilities (or so I thought) but thanks to Nick Gravelyn's Tile Engine video series it's actually quite easy to get the basics of a level editor set up! It was also the first time I actually made something out of WinForms so it was [...]