Knox Game Design
Knox Game Design is a monthly discussion by game creators in the Knoxville, Tennessee area. We share our ideas, show off projects, and discuss current topics related to video game development. Our group explores the many facets of the game design process, such as coding, graphics, modeling, animation, story, and promotion. You can find out more information on the group including future meeting dates at knoxgamedesign.org
- Update frequency
- every 29 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 116
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Doom Modding – Knox Game Design, December 2023
Overview of modding Doom with customized levels and graphics. Links and Notes GZDoom download – https://zdoom.org/downloads Doom World mods – https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/ ModDB mods – https://w…
00:48:35 |
Fri 29 Dec 2023
Memory Card Game – Knox Game Design, November 2023
Explanation of design and implementation of card memory matching game in MonoGame. Demo code – https://github.com/levidsmith/KnoxGameDesign/tree/master/memory_game Links and Notes Podcast theme music…
00:45:20 |
Wed 29 Nov 2023
Object Oriented GameMaker – Knox Game Design, October 2023
Presentation on how to apply object oriented principles to GameMaker to expand the variety of enemies and items in games. Includes discussion of parenting of objects in GameMaker and how to inherit …
00:24:58 |
Fri 27 Oct 2023
OpCodes – Knox Game Design, September 2023
Overview of OpCodes and how those relate to video game consoles. Links and Notes 6502 OpCodes at Ultimate Commodore 64 Reference – https://www.pagetable.com/c64ref/6502/ GameBoy OpCodes – https://www…
00:28:37 |
Fri 29 Sep 2023
Character Encoding – Knox Game Design, August 2023
Overview of encoding characters and letters into their numerical and binary values. Explanation of how to use bitwise operators to change case of characters. Links and Notes Podcast theme music – Rid…
00:22:57 |
Wed 30 Aug 2023
Parallax – Knox Game Design, July 2023
Overview of how parallax is used and implemented in 2D video games. Links and Notes Demo code – https://github.com/levidsmith/KnoxGameDesign/tree/master/parallax Podcast theme music – Ride by Pocketm…
00:09:22 |
Sun 30 Jul 2023
Grid Based Games – Knox Game Design, June 2023
Overview of grid based games and implementation of checkers in MonoGame/C#. Links and Notes Checkers demo code – https://github.com/levidsmith/KnoxGameDesign/tree/master/gridbased Podcast theme music…
00:42:18 |
Tue 27 Jun 2023
Spring ’23 Game Jam – Knox Game Design, May 2023
Knox Game Design Spring ’23 game jam entries Links and Notes Podcast theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster
00:02:44 |
Wed 31 May 2023
Falling Blocks – Knox Game Design, April 2023
Walkthrough on how to create a basic falling block line clearing game using MonoGame. Project code – https://github.com/levidsmith/KnoxGameDesign/tree/master/falling_blocks Links and Notes Visual Stu…
00:50:50 |
Tue 25 Apr 2023
Game Engines – Knox Game Design, March 2023
Overview of game engines and development libraries. Links and Notes Godot Engine – godotengine.org Unity – unity.com Unreal Engine – www.unrealengine.com GameMaker – gamemaker.io Stencyl – stencyl.co…
00:11:57 |
Thu 30 Mar 2023
SVG Scalable Vector Graphics – Knox Game Design, February 2023
How to create vector graphics in the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format by text editor or Inkscape. Demo code – https://github.com/levidsmith/KnoxGameDesign/tree/master/svg Links and Notes Podcast…
00:19:18 |
Wed 01 Mar 2023
Javascript and HTML Canvas – Knox Game Design, January 2023
How to create a simple space shooter web game using Javascript and HTML Canvas, as well as drawing the Tennessee state flag. Demo code – https://github.com/levidsmith/KnoxGameDesign/tree/master/javas…
00:56:15 |
Wed 25 Jan 2023
QBasic IO and Graphics, Knox Game Design, December 2022
A look at various approaches for keyboard input and graphics display in QBasic. Demo code – https://github.com/levidsmith/QBasicShooter Links and Notes QBasic.net – https://www.qbasic.net/ ASCII char…
00:52:45 |
Fri 23 Dec 2022
Number Systems – Knox Game Design, November 2022
Overview of number systems, including decimal base 10, binary base 2, hexadecimal base 16. How to convert between the number systems. Explanation of addition and subtraction in binary. Links and Not…
00:33:38 |
Sun 27 Nov 2022
Knox Game Jam Fall ’22 Recap – Knox Game Design, October 2022
Knox Game Jam games Old Timer Peg Game by Levi Other games by Knox Developers Caverns of Evil (Steam) by Jared Labyrinth (Steam) by James Gospelgo by Danosono
00:10:43 |
Fri 28 Oct 2022
Reading Text Files – Knox Game Design, September 2022
Explanation of how to read text files to display objects to the screen in Unity, GameMaker, MonoGame, Godot, and SDL. Demo project – https://github.com/levidsmith/KnoxGameDesign/tree/master/textreade…
00:49:10 |
Thu 29 Sep 2022
Logo – Knox Game Design, August 2022
Introduction to the Logo programming language. Useful for teaching functional programming to beginners. Explanation of using “turtle graphics” to draw various shapes. Demo project – https://github.…
00:35:43 |
Mon 29 Aug 2022
Curves – Knox Game Design, July 2022
Overview of four types of curves that can be used in game development. Basic parabola for moving objects in an arc. Sine function for moving objects in a wave motion. Physics using velocity and ac…
00:41:01 |
Fri 22 Jul 2022
I-Frames and Stun Lock – Knox Game Design, June 2022
Overview of I-frames, invincibility, stun lock, and knock back. How these are implemented in games, statistics from examples of classic games, and demo project showing various methods for implementin…
00:30:50 |
Tue 28 Jun 2022
Enemy Behaviors – Knox Game Design, May 2022
This month’s Knox Game Design presentation topic is Enemy Behaviors. This is a look at various enemy behavior types: Back and forth (timer / collision based) Alert and chase, using distance / timer f…
00:51:24 |
Sat 28 May 2022
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