News

    It’s odd how news arrives sometimes, it always seems to arrive in batches and today’s post is no exception.  Earlier this week I read about a recently launched 3D modeller that works within Unity3D.  That piqued my interest for a few minutes, then something shiny came along and I forgot about it completely.  […]

  Due to a bunch of great feedback I received from the YUI community and learning a bit more about how YUI works, I’ve made some minor, but extensive ( yes, that actually makes sense ) changes to the guts of my upcoming HTML based level editor.   As a bit of a recap, so […]

  As per this post I am currently going through the process of creating some simple game creation tools using HTML5, more specifically using the YUI 3 library as well as the EaselJS canvas library.   This post illustrates the very skeleton upon which we are going to create our app.  YUI3 provides a full […]

This post is going to look at getting your Moai app to run under NaCL, which is Google’s mechanism for allowing you to execute C++ code within Chrome.  There are a number of restrictions, but fortunately Zipline have done most of the hard work for us.   Like any other platform, your code is run […]

  Zipline just announced a new release of the Moai SDK, 1.3r2.  This release is mostly due to the release of iOS 6 and is a bit of a double edged sword.  What’s the catch you say?   Most importantly, we have updated the Moai Xcode project to support Apple’s latest Xcode version 4.5 and […]

Our application hasn’t looked very… applicationy up until this point.  The menu area was basically a space full with “coming soon”.  In this post we will address adding a menu to our HTML app and show how we can pass fire and handle menu click events.   First change I suppose, we need a menu.  […]

  A level is made up of sprites and sprites come from somewhere.  In our editor, we are going to allow the user to “upload” multiple image files containing sprite sheets.  However, are server is not required and that is going to require a bit of work.  Also, we are going to need some form […]

A month ago I started looking for a Mac based alternative to the excellent Windows Live Writer and thought I may have found one in the form of MarsEdit. It came with a 30 day trial and my final verdict was a bit mixed.  It was a very pleasant writing experience, if that makes any […]

  Sony, actually… and file this under the category of longest most unwieldy names ever, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios Europe External Development Studio (yeah… really) in collaboration with Creative England and Birmingham Science Park have put together a contest called PlayStation Pioneers, with a grand prize of £25,000.  That’s about 40K in real money! […]

  I recently read this ( very good ) blog post documenting the process of developing and publishing the game Pumped BMX and was struck by one thing.  I really really liked the font he used on his site, it was clean but not gimmicky.   It turns out the font is Open Sans, created […]