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  A few hours back I received the following email from Havok:   Calling all game developers!   PROJECT ANARCHY MOBILE GAME DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGE Whether your studio is in an office building or a garage, we know you’ve had an idea bubbling in the back of your mind to create the next big hit on […]

  On thing i’ve discovered working with GWT these past few weeks is, it’s slow… very very very slow.  I am developing on a newer laptop running a Haswell processor and SSD and my compilation times look like this:   254 seconds per compile is simply not tenable, especially during development.  You can avoid a […]

  This game engine came to my attention yesterday on reddit so I took a bit of time to check it out and it has potential.   First off, it also has a few problems.  The installer has absolutely no feedback to say that it installed, no UI, nothing.  It left me scratching my head […]

There are a new set of coordinated releases to the Cocos2d-x family of game development libraries and tools.  The changes include:   CocosStudio UI editor for UI graphic artists Animation editor for graphic artists Data editor for game data designers Scene editor for game designers     Cocos2d-html5 Improved Sprite, Node, LabelTTF class, now it […]

  I’ve recently been having a bit of a fight with Google development tools, GWT and the GWT plugin for Chrome on Windows 8 specifically.  Following the linked instructions I did manage to get the plugin installed, however today I started experiencing a new joy…  Every few minutes I would experience:       It […]

Although they didn’t make an official blog post, nor have any information about it on their home page, there seem to have been some rather massive changes in the license structure for the Loom Game Engine.  I took a look at Loom several months back, it’s an impressive 2D game engine using LoomScript ( an […]

  Now that the Blender series is finally complete ( phew, that sucker got long! ) it’s onwards and upwards to a new project.  This will be a closer look at LibGDX, which I suppose will be a tutorial series of sorts.  I say of sorts because I really don’t know enough about LibGDX to […]

  Throughout the tutorial series I intentionally stayed with a low polygon count model.  There are two reasons for this.  First, if you are using it for a real-time game instead of creating a sprite, a lower polygon count is important for performance, especially in a mobile title.  Second, it’s actually fairly simple to add […]

  In Blender, when modelling, a world without light can be a great thing.  In a lightless scene, your model looks remarkably consistent from all angles:   That said, if you render a scene without light: The results aren’t exactly brilliant!   The default Blender scene generally contains a single point light:   In object […]

  We come to the end of our time with Blender!  Its finally time to turn our 3D model into pixels.  We are going to render our animation out to a series of images with transparent backgrounds.   You have one final decision to make.  Perspective or Orthographic projection.  So, what exactly is the difference?  […]