A pair of engine related items in the news today.     First off, Unity signed an *extensive* deal with Nintendo permitting them to include a version of Unity with their Wii U SDK, both internally, externally and to 3rd party licensees.  In Unity’s own words:           This extensive agreement will […]

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:   […]