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Well, this one came out of left field… well, that or GDC, but it’s easily the biggest news yet for mobile game developers.   Havok, the makers of the popular Havok physics engine, the Vision 3D game engine and much much more, just announced Project Anarchy.   What exactly is that?  Well, I’ll let them […]

  I am not sure if you have ever tried running a WebGL game on a mobile browser…  it either doesn’t work at all, or performs appallingly bad depending on the browser.  Mobile browsers already present an interesting performance problem for 2D canvas based games that products like Ludei’s CocoonJS attempts to solve.  Essentially it […]

In the prior section we looked at getting graphics on screen.  In this section we will look at how to control your game and play sound.   Let’s jump right in with a touch example. package {     import cocos2d.Cocos2DGame;     import cocos2d.CCSprite;     import cocos2d.Cocos2D;       public class HelloWorld extends […]

The past several days I’ve been looking at the Loom Game Engine, which as of writing is still available for free, but for a limited time only.  Loom is an ActionScript based game development system with a bit of C# mashed in, built over top of the Cocos2D library, driven by a handy command line […]

This is part 3, the following are links for part one and part two in this series.   Alright, we’ve installed the tools, got an editor up and going and now how to run the generated code, both on our computers and on device ( well… Android anyways… I don’t currently have an iOS developer license from […]

In part 3 we created a simple Loom application.  In this section, we are going to look at how to draw graphics using the Loom game engine.  I am going to make use of a sprite sheet I obtained here.  Feel free of course to substitute whatever image you want.  Keep in mind, I have no […]

Right off the hop, this post has absolutely nothing to do with game development, but does have something to do with creating this site.   As a bit of a throwback to the 1990s, I on occasion make use of animated gifs on this site.  Here is an example post making use of animated gifs. […]

I have decided to take a closer look at the Loom game engine that I mentioned recently, as I am an absolute sucker for new game engines, especially ones that are currently free.  You can consider these posts a cross between a diary and a review as I dive in to what it’s like using Loom. […]

This is the second part in our look at the Loom game engine, you can read part one here.  I said I was going to get to coding next, but I ran into a bit of a roadblock, and figured I would document it in case any of the rest of you encountered the same […]

Version 1.6 of the cross platform Java based game library PlayN was released recently.  PlayN enables you to target desktop, HTML 5, iOS and Android all using a single Java code base.       Here are the release notes for this release: PlayN v1.6 The complete API changes are summarized in this JDiff report. Below is […]