Just saw this pop up on Reddit and I thought I would share.  Yesterday a new engine was released, Loom.  (Nothing to do with the excellent game from LucasArts).  Loom works on Mac and Windows and can target Mac, Windows, iOS and Android.       Loom is a new game engine 2D game […]

  Samsung and Chillingo have launched their 100% indie campaign.   Basically they are offering developers (initially) 100% of revenue of games sold in their app store.  As of writing, there are just under 7 days remaining to submit the (note, not your) application if you are interested.   I have a couple Samsung phones […]

  A new beta release of the PlayStation Mobile SDK has just been released.   First off, it’s very important to realize this is a *BETA RELEASE*, meaning you can publish with this version.  This version also cannot be installed side by side with the release version.   Key changes in this version are:   […]

  Monotouch and Monodroid ( long since renamed ) are two products that I have *almost* purchased half a hundred times.  If you’ve not heard of them, they are a native port of C# and most of the .NET libraries to iOS and Android.  They have been having a good run and are the underpinnings […]

  So, Sony are holding an announcement for the PlayStation 4 tonight in New York.   The following details have emerged so far, I will update as I have more.   PlayStation 4 is based on “supercharged” X86 architecture. Will have a PC GPU Will have 8GB of RAM The controller is the one to […]

I have been working on a long running, but slow in development, series of posts on authoring a level creation tool using HTML5.  It covers how to actually create an application using the popular MVC design pattern, implemented using the YUI3 libraries, as well as the EaselJS graphic library.   If you are interested in […]

  They say a picture says a thousand words…     I am bringing no laptop nor frankly sobriety, so things will be pretty quite here for a couple days.  It’s only a short vacation though, I’ll be back early next week. I will have my phone and a spotty wifi internet connection, so I […]

  Since Nehe, which is horrifically out of date, there simply haven’t been that many good OpenGL tutorial series.  I mentioned a couple months ago about a series of OpenGL examples, there’s this free e-book and not a ton more.   Fortunately there is another author doing a series of OpenGL tutorials in the works. […]