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  In this day and age almost all graphics engines are behind the curtain based on 3D.  It’s just the way graphics hardware works, so we now deal with textures instead of pixels  and sprites.  At the end of the day, almost every single 3D game engine get a 2D sprite engine created on top […]

Earlier this week Unity announced iOS, Android, WP8 and BB10 targeting will now be included in the base package.  There was another small change that wasn’t given the same exposure.  You can now purchase Unity pro on a subscription basis.   So, what does it cost and what do you get? In Unity’s own words: […]

  Well this one was out of left field:   Today, we’re taking another step on this long road: as of right now, independent Unity developers will be able to deploy their games to Android and iOS platforms completely free of charge. Update Unity and you will find Android and iOS build options (previously basic […]

Today during the Google IO event there was an announcement that both shocked and pleased me.  They are releasing a new IDE for Android development.  Best of all, it’s based on IntelliJ, easily my favourite Java IDE.   (Photo’s are from Verge )   One of the coolest new features is the addition of a […]

  So, it is now available for download, although the version is 0.1, so expect some warts!  Oh, the “it” in question is Google’s new IDE for Android development based on IntelliJ by Jetbrains, a developer I am a huge fan of.   Now I am going to take a tour of the IDE.   […]

I just recently took a look at available Haxe game engines and decided to take a closer look at two of them, HaxeFlixel and Awe6.  I started with Awe6, as frankly it’s the most non-traditional of the two options and as a result, the most interesting to me.   Awe6 is a very design pattern heavy […]

Now that I have decided to go with Haxe and NME, there is the question of which game engine to use.  You may be thinking to yourself “isn’t NME a game engine”?  No, not really, although it performs some game engine-y functions.  NME is more like a cross platform Haxe implementation of a Flash like […]

  When I was three quarters finished writing my PlayStation Mobile book Sony implemented a 99$ annual fee for PlayStation Mobile if you wanted to publish, or worse, run on a physical device. This was an “awww crap” moment for me, as it shrunk my potential audience down massively. People that owned a PS Vita […]

While I was away moving ( of which I am mostly done… except the living out of boxes and having no internet parts… ) a new version of Blender was released.  As I am a big fan, even if I am two days late, I feel the need to report it.   So, what’s in […]

You may have noticed a lack of posts the last couple days and there is a good reason…     Yep… Moving time, ugh.   So there will be a combination of me being super busy, me not having Internet access and quite possibly, me being super busy AND without Internet access!   Thank goodness […]