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Creating a Rogue-like (like Vampire Survivors) - Part 1

Creating a Rogue-like Shoot ‘Em Up (like Vampire Survivors) — Part 1: Movement and Camera

This article is a part of the series:
Creating a Rogue-like Shoot 'Em Up (like Vampire Survivors) in Unity

Ever wanted to create a rogue-like shoot ’em up game like Vampire Survivors? In Part 1 of our guide, we will go through how to create movement, animations and a camera for our player character.

A link to a package containing the project files up to Part 1 of this tutorial series can also be found at the end of this article.

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XAMPP cannot start on macOS - Cannot calculate MAC address

XAMPP can’t start on macOS — cannot calculate MAC address

If you are running XAMPP on macOS, you may run into a variety of problems that may prevent you from starting the program. One of these problems is an error that says “cannot calculate MAC address” when you try to start the program.

Error starting XAMPP stack
The error message is not very helpful.

If your error message says something else, you may want to check out the other articles on XAMPP for macOS:

  1. XAMPP Apache not starting on macOS
  2. XAMPP MySQL not starting on macOS
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CodeLobster IDE, a free PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript / TypeScript editor

CodeLobster IDE — A free PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript / TypeScript editor for web developers

If you’re just starting your foray into the world of web development, you’re probably wondering what kind of code editor or Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to use. In most other branches of coding, like application or games development, you’re probably only going to deal with 1 or 2 programming languages concurrently. In web development, however, you’re almost always going to be dealing with at least 3 languages concurrently, so it’s going to feel very different from almost any other branch of coding.

Especially if you’re new to web development, having to deal with so many languages in one go (and having to be familiar with the native libraries of each of the languages) can be rather overwhelming, and the developers of CodeLobster IDE seem to understand this very well.

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