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  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 […]

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 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 […]

  I don’t think there are many people out there that would argue that JavaScript isn’t an important language.  It certainly is, and with the recent death of Flash and Silverlight in the browser and the hype behind HTML5, to say nothing of Node, it is actually getting more popular   I also don’t think […]

Just a heads up, this post has absolutely nothing to do with game development.  It was a little annoyance I ran into today that had a completely unintuitive answer.  I post here so that, thanks to the power of Google, others may learn from my frustration.   I have a laptop that is for portability, […]

  If you followed my Moai tutorial series, you may recall in this post I mentioned that Android keyboard support currently didn’t exist, although there is an effort underway to fix that.  Well, a user over on the Moai forums got sick of waiting and implemented a soft keyboard using MoaiGui, which I covered in […]

  I have been following RIM’s Gameplay 3d engine for some time now and they have been improving it at a pretty impressive rate.  Well, they just announced the release of version 1.5.  If you’ve never heard of Gameplay, it is a cross platform mobile game development kit written in C++, but scriptable in Lua. […]

As we saw in the last part, our application is made up of a single view composed of 3 child views.  In this post I am going to focus on the left hand view, which is where the actual map will be drawn.  This is easily the most important part.   All I hoped to […]