Over the weekend I managed to grab some time to fix some bugs add some new features. One that has been on my “todo†list for quite a while is the 1:1 preview window so you can see how your… Continue Reading
One process that has survived in game development is the process of ‘blitting’. In simple game terms ‘blitting’ is where you combine two or more bitmap objects in to a single object to increase performance. Remember all those cool 2D games from the mid 80s through to the mid 90s like StarCraft etc used this technique. However that is only half the story. Before you can ‘blit’ bitmap data you have to have some images to work with. Continue Reading