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Essential Links

Posted on January 24, 2011 | No Comments
The links on this page might save you some time. They’re all referenced at some point or another in MGF Issues. We thought it might help to have them all...
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ISSUE 6: Know your Enemy

Posted on January 19, 2011 | 4 Comments
Add the bad guys! Along the way we'll be doing a bit of audio editing, some image editing and some more neat tricks with inheritance. To finish, we'll add some camera view toggling and a functional HUD RADAR!
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To follow MGF you will need nothing more than PC literacy - you do not already need to be a programmer or IT professional! From there, start at Volume 1, Issue 1 or jump into a later Issue if you feel ready (for which you will need Panda3D, L3DT, GIMP, Audacity and Blender ...all of which are free and will run on Windows, Linux or Mac).
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What’s it all about?

MGF ISSUES are organised into VOLUMES. All of our content makes use of software & tools that are available for free.

VOLUMES
Each Volume (ARCHIVE) completes with a fully finished playable game that will work on Windows, Mac, Linux and can even be run in a Web Browser! Each Volume targets a specific game genre.

ISSUES
Each Issue (TUTORIAL) has a purpose and point. You will always see progress in the development of your game. Issues are short and snappy, as they should be, backed up by video, audio and imagery where necessary.

LEARN TO PROGRAM
Our focus will always be games but the skills taught are very transferable. You will learn computer programming and software engineering using little more than a text editor, the Python programming language and the Panda3D game engine. We have chosen Python because it has been used successfully (and commercially) for games, business applications, web applications and most any application you can think of! It's also a 'great first language' for anyone wanting to learn programming.

Python source code/game assets are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Issue/Volume text/media is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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