Corona, the popular Lua based 2D game development SDK just officially moved Mac support out of beta and into official release status.  On the topic of beta, tvOS support was just released in beta form.  They also announced a beta plugin supporting iCloud integration.   From the release announcement: OS X initial release As […]

  The first ever LibGDX Jam starts tomorrow, or today, or yesterday or sometime ago, I suppose it’s all relative to when you read this, isn’t it?  Well temporal factors aside, the first ever LibGDX Game Jam begins/began on Friday Dec 18th.  It is called creatively enough #LibGDXJam.  The rules and prizes from this jam […]

  Just in time for the first ever LibGDX Game Jam, LibGDX 1.7.2 was released.    This released included the following updates: [1.7.2] – Added AndroidAudio#newMusic(FileDescriptor) to allow loading music from a file descriptor, see #2970 – Added GLOnlyTextureData, which is now the default for FrameBuffer and FrameBufferCubemap, see #3539 – Added rotationChanged() for Actor […]

  In a project that sounds disturbingly similar to VRML of days gone past, Mozilla have launched AFrame, a technology intended to bring VR to the web without requiring WebGL programming knowledge.  An attempt to make a 3D Oculus friendly web browsing experience ( think cyberspace/ the matrix ) easy to create.   From the […]

  Unreal have just released a new complete game + tutorial Match 3 Game for Unreal 4.10.  It is currently available for download in the learn section of the Epic Game Launcher.   This is actually a pretty impressive example project as it illustrates: UMG UI Graphics Paper2D Toolset Blueprint and C++ Code ads acheivements […]

  One of the major weak points for Blender, especially for game developers, is it’s FBX support.  You see, Blender is GPL licensed, which among other things means it can’t link to closed source libraries.  On the other hand, FBX is pretty much the industry standard interchange format these days, but it’s owned by Autodesk.  […]

  RoboVM, the technology the enables you to deploy Java based games and applications on iOS just released version 1.12.  The major features of this release are support for iOS 9.2 as well as experemental support for Apple’s new tvOS.  From the announcement:   iOS 9.2 Support In the meantime, Apple also released iOS 9.2, […]

  Today Ludei released a new version of their game focused HTML5 app wrapper Cocoon, now called Cocoon.io and based on Cordova.  I was beginning to think Cocoon was no more, so it is nice to see a new release.   From the announcement: Cocoon.io has been designed from the ground up to try to […]

  Back in October I had the following Twitter conversation with Nat Friedman of Xamarin.   It appears that this process has begun, at least for a limited time and for published developers.  From this announcement at Xamarin: Christmas comes early for indie game developers Because we love seeing indie games succeed, Xamarin wants to […]