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During GDC Havok announced Project Anarchy a collection of their gaming technologies including Physics, Animation and the Vision engine for mobile. Today a few more details where announced and its all great news! What’s included?We have a powerful toolset made up of Havok’s Vision Engine, Physics, AI and Animation Studio; components of which have been […]

I mentioned yesterday that i’ve become rather smitten with Codea but didn’t exactly find the prospect of typing on the iPad screen appealing.  I could have hooked up a Bluetooth keyboard, but I don’t want to carry one around with me, especially as the one I own is massive.  I didn’t really feel like spending 50-100$ […]

Now that I am actually setting off to create a mobile game, it dawned on me I don’t have any current iOS devices to develop and test on.  I have an iPad 1, that my daughter has pretty much co-opted, and an iPhone 3g, which is absolutely prehistoric at this point.  I have zero desire […]

Near the end of last week I announced the GameFromScratch game project and announced I was most likely going to use HTML5 as the development language of choice, while LibGDX and HaXe + NME were my runner up technologies.   The end result of the process is going to (hopefully!) be a published game on iOS […]

The project is currently up on Github.             I will let them describe it in their own words: PlayScript is an open source Adobe ActionScript compatible compiler and Flash compatible runtime that runs in the Mono .NET environment, targeting mobile devices through the Xamarin Studio MonoTouch and Mono for Android […]

Now that my book is published it’s time to move on to my next project.  Given the original purpose of this site, with a two year distraction, I think it’s high time that I get around to actually creating and publishing a game!  I intend to share as much of the development process, code, assets, etc… […]

Well, this certainly wasn’t expected, and I double checked the calendar, it’s no longer April 1st…   Introducing Corona SDK Starter Okay, so here’s where it gets really exciting. From very early on, we have focused on democratizing app development. We felt (and still do) that anyone could create the next great app with Corona. […]

I hear over and over again in programmer forums, mostly beginner forums, that C++ is hard because you have to manually manage memory!  This is not only wrong, it’s dangerous.  Whenever you see this comment, be wary about following this persons advice in the future. Why?  Simply put, because if you are manually managing memory […]

  As of this morning, my book is now available on Safari Books Online.     I find this personally very exciting, as I am an avid Safari subscriber, as you may have noticed from the Safari links in all my prior book related posts!   If you’ve never heard of Safari, it’s an online […]

  You are going to hear nothing but the sound of crickets on GameFromScratch tomorrow.  April 1st is the one day of the year I turn off the internet. Each year, April fools jokes get worse and worse and worse.  People have said that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit… no doubt, those people […]