Tutorials

Here you'll find various tutorials I've done! These are powered by the awesome people over on my Patreon, so if you like what you see, you can support the creation of more tutorials by becoming a patron yourself!

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The latest tutorial is Making an Underwater Music Effect in HaxeFlixel.

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HaxeFlixel Tutorials

HaxeFlixel is an amazing framework that not enough people have heard about. It's been my framework of choice for a couple of games now, so I thought I'd make some tutorials to help out other HaxeFlixel devs, and maybe even get some more people interested!

[ HF00 ] Misc. HaxeFlixel Tutorials

A variety of one-off tutorials! If you're new to HaxeFlixel, check out my Crash Course first!

  • HaxeFlixel Crash Course: Make a Pong Game in Under 1 Hour
  • Pixel-Perfect 2D Water Shader
  • Collision and Overlap
  • Using Finite State Machines in HaxeFlixel
  • One-Way Collisions
  • Z-Sorting in HaxeFlixel
  • Making an Underwater Music Effect in HaxeFlixel

    • [ HF01 ] Breakout (Complete)

    New to HaxeFlixel? Then start here and learn how to make a Breakout clone! There's bricks, a paddle, you get to smash stuff...it's a good time!

  • HF Breakout 1 - Anatomy of a Project
  • HF Breakout 2 - Balls and Walls
  • HF Breakout 3 - Hitting Bricks
  • HF Breakout 4 - Paddles
  • HF Breakout 5 - Score!
  • HF Breakout 6 - Game Over

    • Mega Drive Tutorials

    As a kid, I've always wanted to make my own Sega Mega Drive game. And when I found the Sega Genesis Development Kit, I was finally able to fulfill my dream! What I didn't find, however, were tutorials for it.

    So I decided to make my own, to help other people fulfill their childhood dream!

    I'm basically just sharing what I figure out, so I'm anything but a pro. But I wanted to help keep the console of my childhood alive, so here we are!

    The project tutorials are meant to be completed in order, as they build on one other. So, if you're new to SGDK, start with Megapong!

    I also highly recommend some basic knowledge of C before starting!

    [ MD00 ] Misc

    Miscellaneous tutorials for the Mega Drive!

  • Creating Graphics for the Mega Drive
  • How to Quickly Generate C Prototype Functions in VSCode
  • Color Swapping
  • 4 Programs For Creating Mega Drive Graphics
  • Editing the Rom Header
  • Simple Game States
  • Creating a Simple Menu
  • Changing The Text Color in SGDK
  • Playing Music in SGDK
  • Converting VGZ to VGM
  • Processing Resets
  • Drawing Tiles From Code
  • Make a Text Crawl, Streets of Rage Style
  • Scrolling Maps
  • Placing Tiles
  • Simple Animated Tiles in SGDK
  • Simple Password System

    • [ MD01 ] Megapong (Complete)

    Make a single player Pong-like game for the Mega Drive using SGDK!

  • Megapong 1 - Hello Mega Drive World!
  • Megapong 2 - Setting Up The Environment
  • Megapong 3 - Importing Resources
  • Megapong 4 - Palettes
  • Megapong 5 - Sprites
  • Megapong 6 - Input and Paddles
  • Megapong 7 - Collisions
  • Megapong 8 - Score and HUD
  • Megapong 9 - Game Over
  • Megapong BONUS - Flashing!

    • [ MD02 ] Megarunner (Complete)

    Create an endless runner for the Mega Drive!

  • Megarunner 1 - The Framework
  • Megarunner 2 - Tiles
  • Megarunner 3 - Scrolling
  • Megarunner 4 - Player and Obstacles
  • Megarunner 5 - Jumping Math
  • Megarunner 6 - Collision and Score
  • Megarunner BONUS - Tile Scrolling

    • [ MD03 ] Megalaga (Complete)

    Create a space shooter for the Mega Drive!

  • Megalaga 1 - Space
  • Megalaga 2 - Entities
  • Megalaga 3 - Enemies
  • Megalaga 4 - Enemy Movement and Input
  • Megalaga 5 - Bullets
  • Megalaga 6 - Collision and HUD
  • Megalaga 7 - Enemy Bullets
  • Megalaga 8 - Spam Protection
  • Megalaga 9 - Sound
  • Megalaga BONUS - Powerup

    • [ MD04 ] Megatiler (Complete)

    Create a top-down tile-based Mega Drive game!

  • Megatiler 1 - Tiles
  • Megatiler 2 - Spawning the Player
  • Megatiler 3 - Tile Movement (Part 1)
  • Megatiler 4 - Tile Movement (Part 2)
  • Megatiler 5 - Coins
  • Megatiler 6 - HUD, Sound and Making an Exit
  • Megatiler 7 - Loading Levels