Marmalade just released version 7.3 of their cross platform gaming library, highlights of the update are:   Enhanced support for Windows Store platform  Multi-touch support for Windows Desktop platform OpenGL ES 3.0 support for iOS, Android and Windows Desktop platforms OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenAL 1.1 support for Marmalade Juice GCC 4.8 support for building x86 and […]

  I’ve noticed since Apple announced Medal at the WWDC a number of people are quite confused over exactly what Metal is.  This post is an attempt to clear that up without having to dig through marketing speak or fanboy drivel.   There is one very important thing to start with…  Metal is not going to cause […]

  Today it was announced that PlayCanvas Game Engine has been open sourced.  PlayCanvas is a WebGL HTML5 game engine that runs across supported browsers, or on mobile devices using a solution such as CocoonJS.  Given yesterdays announcement that Safari for Mac and iOS 8 are both going to support WebGL, it is becoming much […]

EDIT:  For a better understand of Apple’s Metal API and what it means for OpenGL, click here.  So finally we are getting some developer related announcements out of the Apple Developer Conference.  For game developers, todays announcement is a dozy.  iOS 8 SDK includes 4,000 new API calls but most importantly includes Metal, a new […]

  So far in working with TypeScript I’ve exclusively used Visual Studio and that hasn’t been entirely trouble free.  There are many people out there that wont have access to Visual Studio ( working on Mac or Linux perhaps? ) or simply wont want to.  Thankfully there is a great alternative, WebStorm.  Granted WebStorm isn’t […]

  Last week I published a resource round-up for OpenGL HLSL shader programming and one of the tools I mentioned was nVidia NSight.  One of the major downsides at the time was a lack of Visual Studio 2013 support, while the Eclipse version was Linux and Mac OS only.  With todays release of NSight 4 […]

  Yesterday saw the release of 2.0.5 of the Phaser game library.  Phaser is one of those libraries I am hearing about more and more recently.  It’s a JavaScript/Typescript game library featuring most of the things you would expect in a modern game engine, including: WebGL and Canvas ( Pixi.js ) renderers Physics Sprites Animation […]