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    You often hear people say things like “It’s memory management that makes C++ difficult”, this is patently false.  What makes C++ so incredibly difficult for new users ( and experienced ones! ) is the complexity.  Note, I didn’t say difficulty, I said complexity.   Today was one of those perfect examples, one of […]

 EDIT: DO not use the included binaries, instead look at the link from the Pang tutorial series to your right!   I have gotten a few emails or messages on this topic, enough so that I figure I will put together a post on the subject.  In my PANG! SFML C++ game tutorial, I show […]

  Someone on the PlayStation Suite forum recently asked if there was an implementation of the Box2D physics library that would work with PS Suite.  Initially Box2Dx looked encouraging, but in the end it relied on some unsafe ( as in the keyword ) code, plus it was quite a bit out of date.  In […]

  I asked a few days back about how many people would be interested in an HTML5/RPG series.  Between comments and emails I’ve received, there appears to be a fair bit of interest and I’ve decided to go ahead with it.  As HTML gaming is somewhat new to me, I am not sure yet exactly […]

        If you are going to make your game require an always on internet connection, especially for the single player game, you damned well better have stable servers!   Diablo 3 have blown it pretty big time, and things don’t seem to be getting that much better.  On the bright side, in […]

  I promise not to let it occupy all of my life… I say as I write this at 4AM in the morning!     Actually, so far the launch has been a gigantic epic failure, not that I am shocked.  As for right now the American forums are down completely.   I signed up […]

    I finally got around to updating the Pang project files from part 6 through 9 to include the SFML 2.0 ports.  Thanks again to Nathan for making my job a whole bunch easier!     So now, if you are following along to the C++ tutorial series, you now have the option of […]

  When I was putting together the Blender to PS Suite tutorial I noticed that COLLADA and FBX exports were nowhere near as good as the X format.  A forum member on the PlayStation forums obviously ran into the same issues, and wrote a script to generate a more PSS friendly dae file.   In […]

  I am just thinking about what project I want to embark on next and this is one currently in my head.  I am going to continue focusing on creating PlayStation Suite SDK tutorials but as a side project I am starting to think about creating a Massively Single Player Offline Role Playing Game ( […]

  I logged in to my Safari account this morning as part of my daily ritual to check which new books have been added and I discover they’ve added Beginning iOS 3D Unreal Games Development.  So what’s so special about this book?  Well, there are a couple of things… First off, although there are a […]