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Happy Halloween 2024
Happy Halloween! 🎃 I’ll use this post to share some of my spooky pixel art drawings and animations, with a brief description.
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Coding tutorial: Chain-of-responsibility pattern
A peasant, knight and king walk into a software design tutorial, and are here to teach you the chain-of-responsibility pattern. Learn how to create a chain of handlers which can handle different request types.
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Creating a noisy polaroid frame in GIMP
Learn how to create a noisy polaroid frame in this GIMP image editor tutorial using spread noise and median blur.
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Creating a planet in GIMP
Learn how to create a cool looking planet using the GIMP image editor. You will learn how to use noise, blur, gradients, lighting and blend modes to create beautiful art.
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Object pool pattern console application tutorial
Learn how to code the object pool pattern by managing a pool of books in a library. Borrow and return books to the pool in this console application tutorial using C++ and Visual Studio.
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Coding tutorial: Object pool pattern
Learn how to code the object pool pattern by pre-allocating memory and reusing objects. Which can greatly improve performance when reusing short lived objects like bullets and particles.
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Observer Pattern Graphical Demo
This tutorial shows a graphical demo of the observer pattern. The circle, square and mosaic background are all observers of the button press. Whilst the owner of the button is the subject.
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Coding tutorial: Observer pattern
In this tutorial you will learn how code the observer pattern using a zookeeper and animals. The zookeeper represents the subject of the observer pattern. Whilst the animals represent the observers.
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Expanding circle columns made in Processing
Made these expanding circle columns in Processing by rendering three circles without clearing the screen, and using hue shifting to keep it interesting. The colours go from dark and saturated, to bright and desaturated.
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Aseprite pixel art tutorial: Noise texture background
Learn how to create a noise texture background in this step-by-step Aseprite pixel art tutorial. Create an image made up of many squares of varying sizes using two colours. Then make the image noisy using a convolution matrix. Use blend modes and gradients to add the finishing touches.
Agate DRAGON Games
Creating games, shaders and pixel art
Agate DRAGON Games 