Agate DRAGON Games

Creating games, shaders and pixel art

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Sprite of a video game woman in a desert firing a magical bullet

Welcome to Agate Dragon Games!

Here you will find my posts on game development, shaders and pixel art. I will show you how to create beautiful art using coding and maths creatively.

Mountain sprites with six different coloured duotone circle gradients applied
Beautiful and atmospheric tree near sunflowers with and without a duotone gradient applied
Shan Shui sea, mountain and boat sprites with four different coloured duotone gradients applied
processing random colour mosaic wide rectangles with no stroke
Side and front profile of an astronaut sprite with and without a blue and yellow duotone applied
processing random colour mosaic circles
aurora borealis duotone
Cat in the sunshine next to the sea with and without a duotone circle gradient applied
reindeer in the woods with a subtle sepia vignette applied
Shan Shui sea, mountain and boat sprite with and without a sepia effect applied
Shan Shui sea, mountain and boat sprite with emerald, ruby and sapphire tinting
Five slime sprites with different coloured tints
Side and front profile of an astronaut sprite with a glitch and RGB split effect applied
Snowman, Christmas tree and present in a gift box sprite with barrel distortion applied
Glitch effect with blocks applied to castle sprite

I create games and shaders in my own game engine, which has a built in level editor. The game engine is written in C++, and uses OpenGL and SDL.

I have an extensive range of tutorials from beginner to advanced which teach you how to code and use art tools. For example you can learn how to create games, a painting program, and a variety of visual effects in GLSL shaders.

I use art tools such as Aseprite for pixel art, and GIMP for image editing.

Check out my beginners guide to coding using Processing here, where you will learn how to create a beautiful animated mosaic pattern.

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Check out my games here:

AgateDragon – itch.io

YouTube channel:

Agate Dragon – YouTube

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