How to make a video game 100% from scratch on a Mac

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Ted Bendixson

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Nov 13, 2019, 10:05:49 PM11/13/19

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Hey everyone. I just joined. I live in Park City and work as a mobile application consultant. I have recently taken to building games, learning how to do it from scratch in C.

I have a YouTube series and open source project teaching people how to make games on a Mac (the computer I happen to own). It starts on the assumption that you know nothing, and it gradually builds up to making a fully cross-platform game.

So far, I have 19 videos, and I plant to do about 30 of them. The rest of it follows Casey Muratori's Handmade Hero series, so you ought to be able to just pick that up after getting your Mac platform code going.

Anyway, here are links to the videos. I'm up in Park City, so if anyone wants to hang out / go skiing this winter, just send me a message.

Day 001. Writing your own build system for Mac apps and games.

Day 002. Opening a window on a Mac.

Day 003. Allocating a video display back buffer.

Day 004. Animating the back buffer.

Day 005. Using Xcode as a debugger for cross-platform games.

Day 006. Game controller input.

Day 007. Finishing game controller input.

Day 008. Keyboard input.

Day 009. Finishing Keyboard input.

Day 010. Audio setup and playing a square wave to the speakers.

Day 011. Rendering audio from a circular memory buffer.