Sharing Screenshots to Social Media in C# and Xamarin
Originally posted on Virtex Edge Design: Keeping up with the theme of my last post, I’m here today sharing another single class solution to a common stack over...
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Handling Mobile Ads in C# and Xamarin
Recently I put out two games, The Chaotic Workshop and Space Esc8bit, which both have with a free ad supported version. There’s lots of support and examples for...
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Extensible Game Localisation
Originally posted on Virtex Edge Design: There’s lots of text in a game, but there’s also a lot of languages in the world. Google Play and Apple both allow you...
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Vertices Engine Optimizations – Encapsulating Post Processors
Currently most of the Post Processors are handled loosely and internally by the vxRenderer class. This is great for keeping everything in one place, but it caus...
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Vertices Engine Optimizations – Camera Frustum Culling
As Metric has progressed, I started running into frame rate drops while debugging. Naturally the game is going to run slower when Visual Studio is debugging it...
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Shader Porting to Linux MonoGame
One of the things which I wanted to implement in the Vertices Engine were Crepuscular Rays, more commonly known as God Rays. These have become ubiquitous in gam...
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OpenCascade Tutorial Series
After my first not-so-smooth encounter with OpenCascade Development and due to the lack of good “Getting Started” Documentation, I’ve decided to put together a...
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OCC Tutorial 01 -Setting up OpenCascade in Linux
Installing Before getting started in OpenCascade, you need to install the libraries. Windows have binaries provided, but for Linux, you need to compile from sou...
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Virtex Edge Choosing Which Foot to Put Forward.
I’ve been working on Metric Racer for a while now, but the decision to have online multiplayer as well as porting it too Linux means that it’s going to take a l...
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Porting 2D Game Play to MonoGame
I’m working on two games at the moment, one of which is a 2D Phsyics Sandbox in the theme of the Incredible Machine from way back in the day. Porting over 2D sc...
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Vertices Engine Porting : Success
After a weekend of coding, porting, and compiling, I manged to get a large portion of the shaders ported over too MonoGame. It was really nice to finally see Go...
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Virtex Edge Dev Blog: So What Works Out of the Box.
Firing up Xaramin and adding each of my *.cs files into the new project. I found there were actually very few issues building the actual C# code. The issues sho...
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