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  As part of the same document that announced the PlayStation Mobile compatible phones from HTC, Sony also released a list of developers currently working on PlayStation Mobile content.  Give it a look and I believe that you will agree that it is fairly impressive:         List of Third Party Game Developers […]

  This is part 2 of our series looking at getting a fully textured model from Blender to the PlayStation Vita, or at least, the simulator.   In part 1 we created and exported our textured model, a simple 6 sided die.  Now we are going to convert it into a format the PlayStation Suite […]

  We are now going to look at creating a fully textured model in Blender and exporting to a PlayStation Studio SDK project, a simple model viewer.  We create a very simple model, UV map, texture then export it.  At this point, we process it using the PS Studio ModelConverter tool, import it into PS […]

  This part of the tutorial is going to look at using UIComposer to create a simple UI, then the code to actually run the resulting GUI.  This two part tutorial was originally just one part, covering how to make a UDP socket request.  However, in putting together the required code, I had to build […]

    I am really enjoying the PS Suite and compared to the Android emulator, the PlayStation Suite Simulator is extremely fast, but also extremely limited.  Perhaps most annoying, the joystick is actually handled using the keyboard.  I had sort of pictured being able to plug in a joystick on my development PC, but sadly […]

  In Part 1 we covered creating and displaying our UI.  Now we are going to do something with it.  We are going to cover quite a bit of different material in this tutorial.  First and foremost we are going to need a server to talk to, lucky enough, I already have one!     […]

    This post is going to take a look at what’s included with the PS SDK, PlayStation Suite Studio and all the various included tools and tutorials.  So if you are wondering what is included in the PSSDK or have downloaded it and are trying to figure out what exactly you’ve got, this post […]

  This tutorial we are going to look at SpriteList and show how it can result in a massive increase in performance.  Along the way, we are going to create two custom Scene classes, one that performs poorly, and one the does not.  Along the way we are going to demonstrate dynamically generating a UI […]

    There is a charter somewhere that states all tutorial series must start with the ubiquitous Hello World tutorial, and who am I to break the charter?  So that is exactly what we are going to do here, a simple Hello World. This is as much about getting up and running with PS Studio […]

  In this tutorial we are going to manually manage the game loop manually.  Additionally we are going to look at the various ways of handling input from the gamepad.  This tutorial builds on the code we developed in the previous tutorial.  As you may recall, we created a “Hello World” sprite and centered it […]