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I ran into a small problem today, that took more then a few cycles to puzzle out. Basically I was installing and configuring Moai to work on Mac, and this process had a few steps. First I had to install the FMOD libraries and configure them in Xcode. Then I needed to build each […]
The ignore me part of this post is very real, this post has content that is probably of very little interest to 99% of you. You see, until now I have been spoiled by the wonderful ( and free! ) Windows Live Writer blogging software, part of the Windows Live Essentials package. Coincidentally that pack […]
I just read on Reddit that Meridian 59 has been open sourced and hosted on Github. I took a quick look at the code and it was written in straight C and appears to be quite clean and easy to read, at least, as readable as Win32 C code can be! If you […]
The release candidate for the upcoming Blender 2.64 release was um, released today ( that’s a lot of releasing… ). For game developers, there isn’t really a ton in this release targeting you, but then, we made out like bandits in the prior release so we can’t be greedy I suppose. Of […]
In recent years I have gotten used to having increasingly larger hard drives, so I never really paid attention to how large Windows 7 had gotten. Until I recently installed Win 7 on a 60GB SSD partition… and nearly half of if was consumed by the OS! This is simply put, insane. The […]
In this recipe, we are going to show how to create a GUI using Moai. This functionality isn’t actually built directly into Moai, it is provided by a third party library, so we have to do a bit of setup first. There are a few ways you can get moaigui. First, it is […]
In this section we are going to do something we probably shouldn’t… work with the keyboard. As you will soon see, when dealing with mobiles, this isn’t a particularly smooth journey! Mobile and keyboards go together like peanut butter and hand grenades. As is always the way, let’s jump right in with code: […]
So this weekend, my ultra-portable laptop gave up the ghost. That machine dual booted Windows 8 and Ubuntu and I found myself using it more and more often, mostly because I’ve been travelling a lot and my primary laptop ( an Asus G53sx ) weighs slightly more than a small moon. Well yesterday morning, […]
This post is a simple summary of all the code used in the complete Vita game tutorial series, all on a single page. Additionally, you can download the complete project here. Here is the end result of all of this code in action: Vita pong! And here is the code: […]
In this section we are going to implement the Ball and the Paddle class. Let’s jump right in with the Ball class Ball.cs using System; using Sce.PlayStation.Core; using Sce.PlayStation.Core.Graphics; using Sce.PlayStation.HighLevel.GameEngine2D; using Sce.PlayStation.HighLevel.GameEngine2D.Base; using Sce.PlayStation.HighLevel.Physics2D; namespace Pong { public class Ball : SpriteUV { private PhysicsBody _physicsBody; // Change this value to make […]