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
BBS Games, VT100, and ANSI Graphics – Knox Game Design August 2020
An overview of BBS (Bulletin Board System) games from the 1990s. How to connect to a telnet BBS to play DOOR games. Creating ANSI graphics with ACiD draw in DOSBox. VT100 color codes explained. A…
00:56:12 |
Fri 21 Aug 2020
Color – Knox Game Design, July 2020
An overview of color for game developers. How various colors are made on the computer using RGB and HSV formats. The color spectrum and the ROY G BIV order for colors. Where visible color exists o…
00:31:34 |
Fri 24 Jul 2020
Pygame – Knox Game Design, June 2020
This month we learn how to create games in Python using the Pygame library. 1:30 – News 6:13 – Showoff: Unity Helper and new leaderboard features 11:47 – Pygame (feature presentation) Hosts Jacob ldj…
01:04:42 |
Mon 15 Jun 2020
Spring ’20 Game Jam Entries and Leaderboard Security – Knox Game Design, May 2020
This month we show off our games created for Spring ’20. Levi D. Smith also talks about leaderboard security. 0:58 – News – BitBucket discontinues Mercurial, migration to GitHub 9:43 – Raising Cerber…
01:26:15 |
Mon 25 May 2020
Spring ’20 Game Jam Kickoff – Knox Game Design, April 2020
Jacob, Dylan, and Levi get together before the Spring ’20 theme announcement to talk about their thoughts on the possible themes. 0:52 – Possible game jam night in Tennessee 7:10 – Dylan’s water colo…
01:31:14 |
Thu 30 Apr 2020
Promotion and Feedback – Knox Game Design, March 2020
This month we talk about ways to promote your game and how to handle feedback on your game. Hosts Dylan Wolf www.dylanwolf.com/ @DylanWolf dylanwolf.itch.io Levi D. Smith levidsmith.com @GaTechGrad g…
01:19:14 |
Sat 14 Mar 2020
Java Game Development – Knox Game Design, February 2020
This month’s topic is Creating Games with Java. We discuss the basics of Java and how to create simple games with the language. Source Code for Java Examples Hosts Jared github.com/BlackJar72 jare…
01:41:11 |
Thu 13 Feb 2020
Blender for Unity – Knox Game Design, January 2020
This month’s topic is Blender for Unity. We will go over the basics of modeling and texturing an object in Blender. Then we will import that model into Unity and add behaviors through C# code. Host…
00:58:46 |
Tue 14 Jan 2020
SDL with C – Knox Game Design, December 2019
This month’s topic is SDL with C. Before Unity and GameMaker, there was the Simple Direct Media Layer. It can be used to create 2D and 3D games on a wide variety of platforms. C is still one of th…
01:12:06 |
Tue 10 Dec 2019
Scratch – Knox Game Design, November 2019
This month’s topic is Scratch. Scratch is a game development environment where visual code blocks are dragged and dropped instead of writing code. It is a good tool to introduce programming concepts …
00:55:57 |
Thu 14 Nov 2019
Fall ’19 Game Jam Showoff – Knox Game Design, October 2019
We show off the four games created by East Tennessee developers for Fall ’19. The theme was “Start with Nothing” Hosts Dylan Wolf https://www.dylanwolf.com/ @DylanWolf https://dylanwolf.itch.io Levi…
00:46:54 |
Fri 18 Oct 2019
Creating Games in Smalltalk – Knox Game Design, September 2019
This month’s topic is Creating Games in Smalltalk. We look at how it is possible to create games in the Smalltalk language using the Squeak environment. Smalltalk is one of the first object oriente…
01:15:34 |
Wed 11 Sep 2019
Random Number Generators (RNG) – Knox Game Design, August 2019
This month’s topic is Random Number Generators (RNG). We discuss the various methods for generating random values in game development. We provide specific examples for Unity, GameMaker, and Unreal …
00:59:24 |
Mon 12 Aug 2019
Pico-8 – Knox Game Design, July 2019
An overview of using the Pico-8 fantasy console to develop games using the Lua programming language. We look at the steps and code for building a number guessing game and a simple space shooter. Hos…
01:23:22 |
Thu 18 Jul 2019
Calling Web Services from Unity – Knox Game Design, June 2019
This month, the discussion will cover working with web service calls in Unity using RestSharp. First, we’ll look briefly at prototyping services in Node.js (though the Unity examples will work with a…
00:59:20 |
Tue 11 Jun 2019
Spring ’19 Game Jam Entries – Knox Game Design, May 2019
This month we show off the games created by Knoxville developers for Spring ’19. Drew also tells us about his new site for designing board games called Strategame. Hosts Drew Purifoy https://www.stra…
00:45:07 |
Fri 17 May 2019
Music for Game Developers – Knox Game Design, April 2019
This month will be a discussion on music for game developers. Learn the math and science behind music theory. We will cover tools that can be used for music composition, and how to apply the music re…
01:31:25 |
Tue 16 Apr 2019
Math for Game Developers – Knox Game Design, March 2019
This month Levi D. Smith covers math for game developers. He explains how algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus apply to game development with Unity and GameMaker examples. Minor corrections …
01:35:45 |
Tue 12 Mar 2019
QBasic – Knox Game Design, February 2019
This month’s topic is game development history featuring QBasic. We discuss how we got started with game development and the first tools and languages that we used. Levi D. Smith shows how to setup…
01:30:56 |
Mon 18 Feb 2019
Unity for Beginners – Knox Game Design, January 2019
This month Dylan presents an intro to Unity demo (space shooter), which can be beneficial for those new to Unity and want to know more about the Unity game engine. Knoxville Game Design is a discussi…
01:49:30 |
Wed 16 Jan 2019
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