Have I ever mentioned how much I hate   a) developing for Android b) using Eclipse c) developing for Android using Eclipse?     Well, I do.  So often you spend more time fighting the tools than you do fighting with code, and today was yet another example.   I have some Moai […]

  It’s 300+ pages of how-to, tips, tricks and what have you, about all things art.  Ryan Hawkins is an industry veteran with experience working with Blizzard, Pixologic, Vigil Games and more.  Plus, he brought along friends, Tor Frick, John Park as well as people from Blizzard and Naughty Dog.  That’s some pretty heavy caliber […]

  In celebration of their 40th anniversary, Atari has re-released a number of their classic games as HTML5 in their newly launched web arcade.  Each of the titles has received a facelift, and the list includes: Asteroids Centipede Combat Lunar Lander Missile Command Pong Super Breakout Yar’s Revenge     As you can see, the […]

  As the title says, I have inserted a new book into the Unity book list, 3D Games Monetization with Unity and Leadbolt. I do however use the word book in the loosest terms possible, as it is in electronic format only and it weighs in at a mere 37 pages.   That said, it […]

  This is a general list of the various resources, books, tutorials and forums available for learning and working with Moai and Lua.  I will keep updating it as I discover more resources.  If I made a mistake or omission, please let me know either in comments or via the Contact form.   Books Programming […]

  Cocos2D-html is an HTML5 port of the popular Cocos2d-x library, enabling you to make games that run in a browser, using a syntax that works virtually unchanged on a number of platforms.   You can download the source as a zip right here.   The project is also available on GitHub.     In […]

  As the title suggests, Blitz Basic Plus is currently free right now, marked down from the regular price of 60$.    Blitz Basic, in their own words, is: BlitzPlus provides developers with a complete 2D programming solution for the PC. Utilising a BASIC/C hybrid language for use with its compiler, BlitzPlus is capable of […]

  When we last visited Moai land things were getting started, hot and pink; but just a bit boring.  Let’s spice it up a bit with a sprite that totally isn’t the logo from Watchmen!   screenWidth = MOAIEnvironment.screenWidth screenHeight = MOAIEnvironment.screenHeight print("Starting up on:" .. MOAIEnvironment.osBrand .. " version:" .. MOAIEnvironment.osVersion) if screenWidth == […]

  In my prior post introducing the bones of our YUI based level editor, I showed the following way of loading in a template from the server: initializer:function(){ var that=this, request = Y.io(‘/scripts/views/templates/person.Template’,{ on:{ complete:function(id,response){ var template = Y.Handlebars.compile(response.responseText); that.get(‘container’).setHTML(template(that.get(‘model’).getAttrs([‘name’,’age’,’height’]))); } } }); }   This works, but it is less than ideal.  There are […]