Game Development News, Tutorials and More
Looking for the perfect gift for the geek who has everything? Well, Learn Lua for iOS Game Development is coming out just before Christmas , plus it’s on sale for 25 bucks. ( What’s with pre-release books already being on sale??? ). Alright, hundreds of computer texts are released every year, dozens […]
Interesting book coming soon: Learn Lua for iOS Game Development Read More
After a fairly long beta, PlayStation Mobile 1.0 SDK has finally reached 1.0. The following is the full text of the official press release: Tokyo, November 20, 2012–Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) today announced that it initiates the PlayStation®Mobile Developer Program which includes the official version of PlayStation®Mobile SDK*1 from today, in an effort to […]
PlayStation Mobile SDK hits 1.0 release Read More
Over on the PlayStation Mobile forums, a user asked: For example, if I had a 100 x 100 image, I could use the source rectangle to draw, say, the left part of the image 50 x 100. This is useful when I have two images that represent the same object, e.g. a fancy progress […]
PlayStation Mobile Tutorial: Messing with a GameEngine2D sprite’s UV coordinates Read More
Title pretty much says it all, Unity 4 is now available. Not a huge shock given the beta release announced two weeks ago. The key new features are: Direct X 11 rendering New target platform: Flash New target platform: Linux Updated image effects including New water shaders and prefabs Render to texture effects Full […]
Ok… is it engine release day? Anyway, again the title says it all, CryEngine 3.4.3 was released today. If you are un-aware, CryEngine is a 3D game engine like UDK or Unity, which is available for free to get started ( 20% royalty on shipped titles ). In addition to the FarCry series […]
CryEngine 3.4.3 released Read More
Almost exactly one year ago today, I wrote this post discussing the impact a change in leadership at Microsoft had on all our lives. The TL;DR version was, two senior VPs at Microsoft went head to head over the future of the company, one lost ( J Allard, father of the Xbox ) and […]
It’s the end of the world as we know it: Redux! Steven Sinofsky leaves Microsoft Read More
In this world of cheap mass market cross platform game engines like UDK and Unity, the barrier of entry to creating a polished game have never been lower. Except of course when it comes to art that is. Take a quick look at GameFromScratch’s 3D application list for an idea of what kind of prices we […]
Creating your game art on the cheap using Maya and Photoshop? Read More
RIM is hard at work on Blackberry 10 and they continue to focus heavily on making sure there is plenty of software available at launch. Now they are targeting game developers with the newest promotion. Got game? Get Rewards. The BlackBerry Got Game Port-a-Thon starting on November 16th is a 36-hour event […]
RIM sponsor event to encourage game developer to port to Blackberry 10 Read More
I recently hosted a guest tutorial post on using Moscrif, a new Javascript based cross platform, game focused development environment. Thing is, I myself haven’t really had a chance to check out Moscrif myself. In the past I did try out a similar environment Appcelerator Titanium, which for a couple of reasons, I chose not to […]
A closer look at the Moscrif game development platform Read More
As I’ve been working more and more on Mac these days, I’ve been looking for a Mac based blogging solution and I ended up purchasing MarsEdit. Everything worked out pretty well, except pasting highlighted source code. I finally solved that final piece of the equation using a product in the middle, SublimeText. Before continuing, you […]
Formatted code samples on MacOS using MarsEdit and SublimeText Read More