Overview of modding Doom with customized levels and graphics.

Links and Notes

• GZDoom download – https://zdoom.org/downloads
• Doom World mods – https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/
• ModDB mods – https://www.moddb.com/games/doom-ii/mods
• Ultimate Doom Builder download – https://devbuilds.drdteam.org/ultimatedoombuilder/
• Ultimate Doom Builder instructions – https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=66745
• MSYS2 (7zip decompression) – https://www.msys2.org/
• Doom World Doom editors – https://www.doomworld.com/classicdoom/utils/editors.php
• Doom World beginner tutorial – https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/140740-doom-mapping-crash-course-absolute-beginner-mapping-workshop/
• Slade3 – https://slade.mancubus.net
• Slade3 graphics tutorial – https://slade.mancubus.net/index.php?page=wiki&wikipage=How-to-Copy-and-Convert-Graphics
• Podcast theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Doom Modding - Knox Game Design, December 2023

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Explanation of design and implementation of card memory matching game in MonoGame.

Demo code – https://github.com/levidsmith/KnoxGameDesign/tree/master/memory_game

Links and Notes

• Podcast theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Memory Card Game - Knox Game Design, November 2023

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Presentation on how to apply object oriented principles to GameMaker to expand the variety of enemies and items in games.  Includes discussion of parenting of objects in GameMaker and how to inherit attributes and functions in children objects.

Links and Notes

• GameMaker – https://gamemaker.io/en
• Podcast theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Object Oriented GameMaker - Knox Game Design, October 2023

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Overview of OpCodes and how those relate to video game consoles.

Links and Notes

• 6502 OpCodes at Ultimate Commodore 64 Reference – https://www.pagetable.com/c64ref/6502/
• GameBoy OpCodes – https://www.pastraiser.com/cpu/gameboy/gameboy_opcodes.html
• x86 OpCodes – https://net.cs.uni-bonn.de/fileadmin/user_upload/plohmann/x86_opcode_structure_and_instruction_overview.pdf
• 6502 and other retro console processors – https://www.arcadecomponents.com/cpusupport.html
• Podcast theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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OpCodes - Knox Game Design, September 2023

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Overview of encoding characters and letters into their numerical and binary values. Explanation of how to use bitwise operators to change case of characters.

Links and Notes

• Podcast theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Character Encoding - Knox Game Design, August 2023

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Overview of how parallax is used and implemented in 2D video games.

Links and Notes

• Demo code – https://github.com/levidsmith/KnoxGameDesign/tree/master/parallax
• Podcast theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Parallax - Knox Game Design, July 2023

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Walkthrough on how to create a basic falling block line clearing game using MonoGame.

Project code – https://github.com/levidsmith/KnoxGameDesign/tree/master/falling_blocks

Links and Notes

• Visual Studio Community – visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community
• MonoGame – www.monogame.net
• Podcast theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Falling Blocks - Knox Game Design, April 2023

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Overview of game engines and development libraries.

Links and Notes

• Godot Engine – godotengine.org
• Unity – unity.com
• Unreal Engine – www.unrealengine.com
• GameMaker – gamemaker.io
• Stencyl – stencyl.com
• Scratch – scratch.mit.edu
• SDL – www.libsdl.org
• Allegro – liballeg.org
• MonoGame – www.monogame.net
• Pygame – pygame.org
• Pico-8 – www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
• OpenGL – www.opengl.org
• Podcast theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Game Engines - Knox Game Design, March 2023

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How to create vector graphics in the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format by text editor or Inkscape.

Demo code – https://github.com/levidsmith/KnoxGameDesign/tree/master/svg

Links and Notes

• Podcast theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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SVG Scalable Vector Graphics - Knox Game Design, February 2023

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How to create a simple space shooter web game using Javascript and HTML Canvas, as well as drawing the Tennessee state flag.

Demo code – https://github.com/levidsmith/KnoxGameDesign/tree/master/javascript

Links and Notes

• Javascript reference at Mozilla – https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference
• Canvas API at Mozilla – https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API
• HTML Canvas reference at W3Schools –  https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_canvas.asp
• Podcast theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Javascript and HTML Canvas - Knox Game Design, January 2023

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