You can download the music here I found it easier to browse this selection by category, though. I stumbled across this today. Thought it was too good to be true, but sure enough, it’s legit, and from Google. From their website: Free music attribution & monetization Attributing your video:If you see an attribution-required icon next to…
@DaveVoyles Do you ever watch people on Twitch.tv or YouTube livestream themselves playing a game, or put together really professional videos about “how to” do something? Well it’s not limited to just professionals anymore — you can do it to. It’s not limited to people playing games either. Livestreaming your game dev or programming work is…
TLDR: Type safety, productivity, intellisense, and debugging. UPDATE: TypeScript 2.0 was released on Sept. 22, 2016 In continuing with my recent trend of using TypeScript, I wanted to illustrate how to create functions and variables in TypeScript, because this initially threw me into a loop. The code for this example can be found here. JavaScript and C#…
TLDR: Use typings install –ambient <name of framework> to install type definitions UPDATE: TypeScript 2.0 was released on Sept. 22, 2016 The code for this project can be found in this repository. I’m still pretty new to TypeScript and trying to get the hang of things. One thing I’ve had a difficult time with is getting type…
Picture this scenario: I want to create a website and use GitHub for source control. How can I have Azure websites point to my GitHub account and pull the code from there? Why do this? With this setup, I can make changes to my code base, from any machine in the world and push it…
So I play a lot of games (Heroes of the Storm!) and I frequently want to record what I’m doing, so that I can provide commentary for others, but also so that I can learn from my mistakes. I generally use a tool like Camtasia for my recording and editing, especially outside of gaming, but…
My Tech Evangelist colleagues, Joe Raio and Brian Sherwin, have create a great set of video tutorials on how to create your own website using Azure. This is part of Microsoft’s Choose to Code campaign, which guides your middle and high school students through a series of online tutorials walking them through the process of creating and…
During this web development session I cover the history of web dev for the first 30 minutes, as well as showcase some examples of what is possible on the web today. Following that, I go through a workshop with students where we cover the Kahn Academy’s introduction to HTML/CSS course, which can be found here.…
During this session I go over various tools and technologies for creating art assets for games, in both 2D and 3D. Some tools I cover include photoshop, crazy bump, and Unity. ———————– @DaveVoyles Subscribe to my startup, tech, and game dev newsletter
Over the last two years I’ve collected a ton of resources for students and startups, so I thought I’d finally create one blog post to combine them all. If you feel that I’m missing anything, leave a note in the comments and I’d be glad to add it! Programming / Web Where do I get…