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    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 […]

  In my prior post introducing the bones of our YUI based level editor, I showed the following way of loading in a template from the server: initializer:function(){ var that=this, request = Y.io(‘/scripts/views/templates/person.Template’,{ on:{ complete:function(id,response){ var template = Y.Handlebars.compile(response.responseText); that.get(‘container’).setHTML(template(that.get(‘model’).getAttrs([‘name’,’age’,’height’]))); } } }); }   This works, but it is less than ideal.  There are […]

      Ok, let me quickly start with this.   I am an idiot.   I am not denying it, I am currently paying the price for a very stupid action; I have no illusions as to who is primarily to blame, its 100% on me ( well… and Microsoft ).  Anyways….   Several […]

  Somewhere between 2.63RC and 2.63 release the Knife tool was changed so that you need to press Enter or Spacebar to commit the changes.  Previously you could commit using the right mouse button, which I preferred.  Lucky enough, it is easily addressed.   In Blender, selected the menu File->User Preferences…   Switch over to […]

      Research in Motion, of Blackberry and Playbook fame, recently released Gameplay 1.2, a cross-platform 3D game programming library aimed at Indie developers.  As a game maker, it is easy to ignore RIM these days, especially with their CEO making comments like:   "We plan to refocus on the enterprise business and capitalise […]

  Google has released their new open sourced write once run anywhere gaming library, PlayN.  Well if by anywhere you mean Android, Flash, HTML5 or Java that is.  Here is the announcement video:     In a nutshell, you write your code in Java and it cross compiles to the 4 supported formats.  It’s odd […]

      Mobile development is certainly hot these days and as a result a number of mobile frameworks have popped up allowing you to target multiple devices with a single code base.  Problem is, it’s not just one or two frameworks we are talking about, more like 20 or 30, maybe even more!   Trying […]