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    Indie developers are increasingly purchasing “off the shelf’ assets to ease the workload on their game project.  The popularity of resources like the Unity Asset Store, Turbo Squid and Mixamo are certainly proof.  These resources are especially useful for the artistically challenged developers amongst us.  Now, Autodesk is throwing their hat into the ring with […]

  First fire up Xcode.  If you haven’t got Xcode, I suppose first get Xcode then fire it up! 🙂  You also need to have an active iOS developer subscription. You can read more about that process here. With Xcode loaded, plug in your iOS device to USB on your Mac.  On the iPad select […]

  Last month I wrote about creating and exporting a model from Blender to LIbGDX.  Part of the process involved exporting to FBX then running fbx-conv.  Wouldn’t it be nice if you could export directly from Blender?  Thankfully you can!  A week or so back @Dancovich told me about his Blender plugin on Twitter.  I […]

We all know XNA is pretty much dead but it is far from useless.  One of the big problems with XNA was it was heavily tied to XNA Studio or Visual Studio 2010.  Now, a few years on and two releases of Visual Studio later, keeping a version of VS2K10 around just for XNA is getting […]

  OpenTK, a low level C# binding for the OpenGL, OpenAL and OpenCL has just hit a milestone 1.1 release.  It’s a project used behind the scenes by a number of projects such as MonoGame.  Funny enough, they keep a low enough profile everyone always thinks they are dead!  Fortunately for .NET loving OpenGL fans, […]

  So you’ve spent the last few months or years of your life developing a game.  Even getting it to market is one hell of an accomplishment.  Getting it to market and actually making money is even better.  Now imagine getting stomped on by a lawyer because your game’s name is similar to an overly […]

  In my head this part of the process of creating a dynamically equipped character in 3D and rendering it to 2D was going to be a breeze.  Conceptually it went something like this…   Create a named bone in parent object where the weapon could attach. Create a named bone in the child object […]

  There are a number of solutions for developing iOS applications in a foreign language and creating a native binary.  For example there is RoboVM (Java), Xamarin (C#) and even Adobe Air (Flash/ActionScript).  To the best of my knowledge there are no solutions to going the other way.  How can you take your natively developer […]

  When I started Flexamail ages ago, I created a Twitter account and did all the social media promotional stuff you were supposed to do.  Early on, we caught some pretty positive press ( LifeHacker, MakeUseOf ) and it lead to a huge amount of exposure.  Then the Twitter-verse started promoting it.  At one point, […]

  Back in August of 2012 we reported in a free PDF made available by Ryan Hawkins called Vertex.  It was a high detail guide to game art from various industry artists… oh, and it was completely free! Now, Vertex2 has been released!   Basically, it’s more of the same!  Erm, I think.  Reality is, […]