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  A couple months back took a long look at Appcelerator and initially I loved what I saw.  For those of you unaware, Appcelerator allows you to develop “native” applications for Android and iOS in JavaScript that execute in a special version of the V8 JavaScript Engine. I started developing a prototype app of a […]

  When we last visited Moai land things were getting started, hot and pink; but just a bit boring.  Let’s spice it up a bit with a sprite that totally isn’t the logo from Watchmen!   screenWidth = MOAIEnvironment.screenWidth screenHeight = MOAIEnvironment.screenHeight print("Starting up on:" .. MOAIEnvironment.osBrand .. " version:" .. MOAIEnvironment.osVersion) if screenWidth == […]

  If you frequent developer related forums, this question probably caused your eyes to roll and the bile to rise in your throat.  People with absolutely no development experience get the game creation bug and of all things want to start with MMOs.  Amazingly enough, there is now a very simple answer…  start here.   […]

  Social games company Wooga have just open sourced their HTML5 game Pocket Island.  You can read the full Pocket Islands / Magic Land ( which used to be a Facebook App ) story right here.   If we are honest, after reading that I think they are putting too much blame at the feet […]

  As the title suggests, Blitz Basic Plus is currently free right now, marked down from the regular price of 60$.    Blitz Basic, in their own words, is: BlitzPlus provides developers with a complete 2D programming solution for the PC. Utilising a BASIC/C hybrid language for use with its compiler, BlitzPlus is capable of […]

    I appreciate that you gave away your software for free and some of it has real potential, but the volume of spam is getting way too high.      These are some of the emails I have received from DAZ since signing up earlier this month, this doesn’t include my receipts/serial number emails, […]

  This post is waaayyyyyy off the topic of game development but it’s one of those things I have been fighting with for months so I figured I’d share the solution in case any of you are having the same issue.   Basically with one of my laptops I would often see my computer crawl […]

  In this tutorial we are now going to implement a web app end to end using YUI and hosted in Node.  It isn’t actually going to do anything much, but it will illustrate everything you need to create a client and server in JavaScript using YUI App and Node.  Over time we will add […]

  You’ve probably seen me ( and many others ) mention ngons in the past and if you are drawing a bit of blank on why they matter, here is a bit of a demonstration.  An ngon is simply a face with more than 4 edges.  Let me illustrate.   Let’s say you have a […]