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Today where I live the weather is absolutely abysmal outside right now ( think English weather, but colder ) and I have very little desire to work on any of my own projects, so I took to Safari to see what new books where released.  There’s a new title Game Development with Three.js that was just […]

  I just received the following information from Autodesk about Maya LT, an indie focused version of the Maya 3D software we covered back in August.  Today’s release adds some new functionality and addresses one of the biggest complaints, the low polygon limit.   Autodesk Releases Maya LT Extension 1 for Indie and Mobile Game […]

  Hot on the heels of their 100,000$ contest announcement the guys at Project Anarchy have another major announcement.  The latest update to Project Anarchy now includes Scaleform… for free!   SAN FRANCISCO – October  22, 2013 –Havok™, a leading provider of 3D game development technology, announces today that it has integrated the full version […]

I have an HTC One that I recently replaced my Galaxy Note with and I absolutely love the phone.  That said, I ran into an interesting problem with an outright mind boggling solution.  I recently upgraded the firmware to  Android 4.3.  Today when I attempted to run an app on it, developer mode isn’t enabled. […]

At their developer event today in Montreal, nVidia released a series of new developer tools.   The first one is FLEX which is an extension to the PhysX um… physics engine.  It is “a unified GPU physics simulation tool that allows two way coupling of effects”.  For example with Flex, a particle simulation could accurately […]

  A few hours back I received the following email from Havok:   Calling all game developers!   PROJECT ANARCHY MOBILE GAME DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGE Whether your studio is in an office building or a garage, we know you’ve had an idea bubbling in the back of your mind to create the next big hit on […]

  On thing i’ve discovered working with GWT these past few weeks is, it’s slow… very very very slow.  I am developing on a newer laptop running a Haswell processor and SSD and my compilation times look like this:   254 seconds per compile is simply not tenable, especially during development.  You can avoid a […]

  This game engine came to my attention yesterday on reddit so I took a bit of time to check it out and it has potential.   First off, it also has a few problems.  The installer has absolutely no feedback to say that it installed, no UI, nothing.  It left me scratching my head […]

There are a new set of coordinated releases to the Cocos2d-x family of game development libraries and tools.  The changes include:   CocosStudio UI editor for UI graphic artists Animation editor for graphic artists Data editor for game data designers Scene editor for game designers     Cocos2d-html5 Improved Sprite, Node, LabelTTF class, now it […]

  I’ve recently been having a bit of a fight with Google development tools, GWT and the GWT plugin for Chrome on Windows 8 specifically.  Following the linked instructions I did manage to get the plugin installed, however today I started experiencing a new joy…  Every few minutes I would experience:       It […]