Tag: GameDev

Augmented Reality Demo’s

Demo #1: TryLive (Glass’s) By D’Fusion Demo #2 Facecake (Trying Makeup & Haircuts) Demo #3 Fighting Game by Unity3D + Metaio A demo game done by Unity3D & Metaio. It has two characters: Max it is the player …

Unreal Engine 4 is now Free!

“IF YOU LOVE SOMETHING, SET IT FREE”  Epic. Unreal Engine is now Free!

Physics & math in GameDev

Q:What is the relationship between GameDev & (math/physics) ? I prefer to answer this Question with some real application scenarios. Transformation: we just mentioned that every 3D object is a series of numerical coordinates. So what if we want …

How Graphics cards Works?

To make a 3-D image, the graphics card first creates a wire frame out of straight lines. Then, it rasterizes the image (fills in the remaining pixels). It also adds lighting, texture and color. 3D projection Any method of …

2D Vs 2.5D Vs 3D

We always say: this is a 2D game or 3D game, so what do we really mean by that? In short, 2D games does not have a depth while 3D does. Therefore, in 2D Game all objects has …

GPU APIs

GPU with applications: A question rises here, while GPU is faster at parallel computing why don’t we use it instead of CPU  the answer to this is many application already started to add GPU acceleration support, so if …

Game Vs Application

The core of any application is a loop; few lines of code that keeps repeated while this application is alive! In applications most likely we do not notice this fact very much, because in applications we rely on …

GameDev Basics

This article will talk about basics of GameDev from technical perspective. In this article: You will learn: Difference between Game& application. 3D Co-Ordinates How Graphic card process the games. What is a GPU API? CUDA, DirectCompute, OpenCL, C++AMP. …

Microsoft Developers UAE Meetup #1 (Knock Knock On GameDev Gate)

Knock Knock On GameDev Gate Why do we play games? It is an important question to be asked. Most likely people play games because they can do what they cannot do in real world, like being a warrior, …