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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 […]

  As of right now we have exactly nothing, so anything is an improvement.  Let’s start our game journey off with a bang… or at least a window.  Without further ado, some code:   screenWidth = MOAIEnvironment.screenWidth screenHeight = MOAIEnvironment.screenHeight print("Starting up on:" .. MOAIEnvironment.osBrand .. " version:" .. MOAIEnvironment.osVersion) if screenWidth == nil then […]

  So, it might be obvious by the fact the last five posts have all been Moai related…  Well, I have embarked on a Moai tutorial series.   This series is meant to make the very professional oriented Moai SDK more accessible to all developers.  There isn’t a glut of information out there, so I […]

  SDK is downloaded and installed.  For some bizarre reason, you need to sign up before downloading the SDK ( which… is freely available in source code form on Github… ).  Once you’ve signed up and signed in, head over to https://dashboard.moaicloud.com/download.php and download it.  Personally I am using the August developer snapshot, because apparently, […]