Featured in Michael Snow’s book, “Game Programming with Silverlight” and Blog, SpriteWorks is an fast and easy solution for creating animated sprite sheets for 2D games from existing 3D models. SpriteWorks was created last year, based on the XNA graphics framework. As such, it required...

The game industry is really becoming a bit stale with re-hashes of the same old game ideas. Sure, there are some amazing new graphics, great looking characters, and flashy visual effects. But, for the most part, games mechanics and themes are mostly the same. This is becuase professional game development...

The EnvyGames has been long due for a Website facelift. So this weekend, it finally received one. Welcome to the new EnvyGames website with a new focus on sharing information relating to game programming and showcasing our game and tools projects. Here, you’ll find articles relating to game programming...

SpriteWorks is a flexible application that takes 3D models in .X, .FBX, .XSI, and of course .DTS and turns them into 2D sprite textures. This can be used to produce very realistic sprites from well lit and normal mapped 3D models. You can also select any animation sequence attached to a DTS shape to...