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  I am a bit late to announce this ( like, almost 3 weeks late ), but cocos2D HTML has a new release.  You can read the complete release notes on their website, but there are a few changes that are of particular concern to the tutorials on this site.  Instead of going back an […]

I have run into another snag with using YUI in an MVC app, one that is causing me to look into JQuery + Backbone as an alternative.   It’s a pretty small thing over all, I can’t get actual YUI controls working from Moustache templates.  You need to pass the ID to a control, but […]

A poster, JakobProgsch, over on the TigSource forums has made a series of OpenGL samples available on GitHub. Each example is contained in a single file, doesn’t depend on any non-canonical libraries or hide code behind a framework.  As a results the examples are a bit longer, but easier to follow.   The following topics […]

  I’ve been trying out PlayStation Studio on Windows 8, and the results are pretty poor.   First the bad news, the simulator and Vita drivers don’t work, so you can’t actually run your code.  The good news is though, you can get the tools and IDE working, but you need to jump through a […]

There is now documentation!   This is a big boon, and one of the biggest downsides to many open source projects.  Put simply, making documentation isn’t really all that fun, so most people don’t bother.  It’s great when a project takes the effort.  Up until now I’ve used the normal Cocos2Dx documentation combined with browsing […]

So, Google has just released the Android 4.1 SDK, so lets take a quick look it what’s in there for game developers. Vsync support, screen refreshing at 16 ms systrace, a new kernel level profilinge tool input device querying low level media codec access multi-channel audio audio pre-processing audio chaining ( transition on audio effect […]

  Just a quick note, I may be a bit silent in these parts.  One of my main machines decided that it no longer liked life as a Ubuntu laptop and decided to end it all.  It sadly took my Windows 7 partition with it.   So I am in the rebuilding process.  I am […]

  This tutorial is going to cover creating transition effects between your GameEngine2D scenes.  It is actually going to be rather short and mostly code, as the subject is actually quite simple and consistent between different effects.   All right, lets just right in.  First of all, when need our main application.  This is going […]

  By way of this reddit posting, some interesting news about Unity 4 was posted and then removed.     So what can we expect in Unity 4, according to this article? DirectX 11 support Improved Flash exporting External forces, bent normals and automatic culling of particles dynamic obstacles and avoidance navigation optimized UnityGUI performance […]

  I mentioned Cocos2d-html a few days ago, a HTML5 port of the popular Cocos2D game library, they released a tech demo showing the game in action, Moon Warriors.     I’m not sure how well that will embed within my blog software, so if you have trouble playing you can open it directly here.  […]