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I just recently took a look at available Haxe game engines and decided to take a closer look at two of them, HaxeFlixel and Awe6.  I started with Awe6, as frankly it’s the most non-traditional of the two options and as a result, the most interesting to me.   Awe6 is a very design pattern heavy […]

Now that I have decided to go with Haxe and NME, there is the question of which game engine to use.  You may be thinking to yourself “isn’t NME a game engine”?  No, not really, although it performs some game engine-y functions.  NME is more like a cross platform Haxe implementation of a Flash like […]

  When I was three quarters finished writing my PlayStation Mobile book Sony implemented a 99$ annual fee for PlayStation Mobile if you wanted to publish, or worse, run on a physical device. This was an “awww crap” moment for me, as it shrunk my potential audience down massively. People that owned a PS Vita […]

While I was away moving ( of which I am mostly done… except the living out of boxes and having no internet parts… ) a new version of Blender was released.  As I am a big fan, even if I am two days late, I feel the need to report it.   So, what’s in […]

You may have noticed a lack of posts the last couple days and there is a good reason…     Yep… Moving time, ugh.   So there will be a combination of me being super busy, me not having Internet access and quite possibly, me being super busy AND without Internet access!   Thank goodness […]

As some of you may already know, I recently published my first book. Now teaming up with my publisher Packt Publishing we are organizing a giveaway!  Three lucky winners stand a chance to win an e-copy of PlayStation®Mobile Development Cookbook. Keep reading to find out how you can win a copy.  EDIT: Winners have been […]

So we’ve already look at general development, graphics programming and handling input with Haxe with NME, now we are going to take a look at audio support.  This is by far going to be the shortest post of the series, as frankly, it’s the simplest.   Let’s jump right in with playing audio.     […]

After literally years of waiting, SFML 2 is finally here along with a site redesign. If you’ve never heard of it, SFML is a C++ library for (mostly) 2D games, including graphics, audio, networking and io functionality. As you can see, there is also a new logo. There aren’t that many changes, this release was […]

We have been running a giveaway of my recently released book PlayStation Mobile Development Cookbook here on GameFromScratch.com.  Now we announce the lucky winners!   The lucky winners are ( by Disqus username ): Neil Munro Brian Beuken Chaibi Mustapha       Congratulations to each of you. I sent you each an email in case […]

One of the downsides to using the Tilesheet class in NME is that it can’t receive events.  Just as earlier on we created a sprite object to hold our bitmap when we wanted it to receive events, how exactly do you handle this when working with the Tilesheet class?  In the Haxe/NME Input tutorial, I got […]