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Creature Pack, Blender, and Lua Reference For My Students

Posted on December 4, 2016 ·

As I am preparing the release of MAGE I am also preparing packs for my students to use to modify and learn from. The first is a creature pack and also a plugin to use to convert models from Blender to the Minetest engine. I’m also compiling links to the Minetest coding tutorials and references and to Lua itself. Soon will be Blender tutorials as well. I’m really hoping to get a rough version of MAGE out this week.

Creaturepack Download
Vehicles Download

Robot Programming with “Basic_Robot”

Minetest Engine Resources:
Minetest Wiki
Minetest Functions
Development Wiki

Minetest Lua Tutorials:
c55’s Intro To Minetest Modding Tutorial
Rubenwardy’s Minetest Modding Book
Wiki Basic Tutorial
sfans’ Minetest Lua Tutorial

Lua References:
https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/lua/index.htm

Minetest Engine Model Conversion:
http://wiki.minetest.net/Using_Blender
Blender

Bonus:
Pivot Animator 4.2.6 Zip

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Video Updates for MAGE aka Make A Game Experience!

Posted on November 26, 2016 ·

Welcome to hopefully the first of may updates for MAGE aka Make A Game Experience, formerly known as D.'s Sandbox. I hope to do a lot more videos in the future and we have a trailer for MAGE in the works. There are a lot of updates happening at … [Continue reading]

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Future Plans For Make A Game Free

Posted on October 23, 2016 ·

Soon I plan to release a software project called MAGE aka Make A Game Experience which aims to make it as easy as possible for everyone, both adults and kids to learn the different facets of creating a game such as Coding, Game Design, Gameplay … [Continue reading]

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Make A Game Resumes

Posted on June 24, 2016 ·

The Make A Game Series Resumes! I'm so excited to announce that I will be posting much more frequently the how to make a game page AND I will be new game making software based on the awesome engine Minetest. The point of the software project will … [Continue reading]

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20 Games Using Open Source Mainstream Engines To Make A Game

Posted on October 16, 2013 ·

Indiestatik.com posted a really interesting article called Back To The Source – 20 Free Indie Games Built On Mainstream Foundations featuring 20 games that have been made using previously commercial engines and many of which went open source and … [Continue reading]

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Getting A Job Making Video Games

Posted on October 9, 2013 ·

If you've ever thought about getting a job making video games, there are a lot of resources that are worth looking at. First you can check out job postings on craigslist and also Gamasutra has a whole job listing section. Also of course you can … [Continue reading]

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EA Talks About How To Make A Video Game

Posted on October 4, 2013 ·

Matthew Jeffery of EA gives a very interesting talk about the process of making a video game and the attitude and motivation that is required to do so. A really insightful video on how to make a video game! Here is the video info and it is … [Continue reading]

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Make A Game – Post Mortem For DwarfCorp

Posted on September 15, 2013 ·

This week at Make A Game we are going to look at another Post Mortem, this time for DwarfCorp! Here is their Kickstarter Page DwarfCorp is a RTS game about ruthless capitalism in a fantasy world. You've been hired as Regional Manager for … [Continue reading]

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Make A Game – Kickstarter Post Mortem For Crypt Run

Posted on September 8, 2013 ·

Post Mortems are very interesting because it is when a Game Developer talks about what worked and what didn't. Recently Crypt Run posted a Post Mortem about what worked and didn't work from their Kickstarter Project. Kickstarter is definitely … [Continue reading]

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The Mission For Make A Game Free

Posted on August 31, 2013 ·

This page is going to be dedicated to interesting articles, resources and whatever other useful content I can find to help people make a game! Check back often because I plan to post new content and/or articles at the very least once a … [Continue reading]

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