In this two-part Active Premium tutorial we’ll be building a top-down war game from scratch. Creating a game is definitely one of the most involved tasks in the world of programming and my mission here is to help Premium members make this process a little bit easier.

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Our war game will implement many different concepts from building a background based on xml data to breaking colors into separate channels using bitwise operators. The game itself will not be like some MMORPG (it would probably take several volumes of a book to describe the process of complicated game creation).

This game will have a couple of types of player and enemy vehicles to check the movements, collisions and weapons, and two missions just to make sure everything works properly (you’ll be able to create more missions anytime you want using the unified engine that we’ll make in this tutorial).

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