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  Alright, the title might be a bit over the top… what we are about to do is look at some of the most popular 2D game engines powered by Lua.  First there will be a matrix of features, to give you an “at a glance” view of what each engine offers.  Then we will […]

  Just last week I announced the release of Blender 2.64 RC 1, well it appears that 2.64 wasn’t quite ready for prime time, as there is now another release candidate.   Since this is a second release candidate, I assume there is no new functionality ( the release notes are shared with the last […]

This is one of those things I am constantly searching for, so I figured I might as well put something together so I end up on my own site!   The following is simply a list of devices and their respective screen resolutions.  I am writing this as much for me as anything else, but […]

The ignore me part of this post is very real, this post has content that is probably of very little interest to 99% of you.  You see, until now I have been spoiled by the wonderful ( and free! ) Windows Live Writer blogging software, part of the Windows Live Essentials package.  Coincidentally that pack […]

I ran into a small problem today, that took more then a few cycles to puzzle out.   Basically I was installing and configuring Moai to work on Mac, and this process had a few steps. First I had to install the FMOD libraries and configure them in Xcode.  Then I needed to build each […]

A pair of engine related items in the news today.     First off, Unity signed an *extensive* deal with Nintendo permitting them to include a version of Unity with their Wii U SDK, both internally, externally and to 3rd party licensees.  In Unity’s own words:           This extensive agreement will […]

  The release candidate for the upcoming Blender 2.64 release was um, released today ( that’s a lot of releasing… ).   For game developers, there isn’t really a ton in this release targeting you, but then, we made out like bandits in the prior release so we can’t be greedy I suppose.   Of […]

  I just read on Reddit  that Meridian 59 has been open sourced and hosted on Github.  I took a quick look at the code and it was written in straight C and appears to be quite clean and easy to read, at least, as readable as Win32 C code can be!   If you […]

  In this recipe, we are going to show how to create a GUI using Moai.  This functionality isn’t actually built directly into Moai, it is provided by a third party library, so we have to do a bit of setup first.   There are a few ways you can get moaigui.  First, it is […]

In recent years I have gotten used to having increasingly larger hard drives, so I never really paid attention to how large Windows 7 had gotten.  Until I recently installed Win 7 on a 60GB SSD partition… and nearly half of if was consumed by the OS!   This is simply put, insane.   The […]