Google’s cross platform PlayN game library has just released version 1.4.  PlayN enables you to target desktop, iOS, Android, HTML5 and Flash using a single Java code base.     Details of this release:     PlayN 1.4 highlights: – You can now find out when your Android or iOS game is paused and […]

  I wrote earlier about getting PssStudio ( now PsmStudio ) running on Windows 8, but at the time I could not get it to actually debug on my Vita or run the simulator.  Both of these issues were caused by the same thing, the failed Vita driver install.   In the end, there was […]

Instead of updating all of the tutorials each time something is changed ( sadly, something I do not have the time for ), I will use this guide to track breaking changes as the occur.     PlayStation Studio .98 –> PlayStation Mobile .99   Libraries have been renamed from Sce.Pss to Sce.PlayStation.  So instead […]

Sony have just announced the release of a new version of the PlayStation Mobile SDK, with the following new features: In-App Purchase library Digital Signature & Encryption library for content protection GamePad support for UI Toolkit library ModelViewer for previewing .mdx files on PC 50+ bug fixes   The is a guide on moving to […]

  It’s actually a test build, but it is certainly worth checking out and helping out the Blender team.  So what can you expect in this test build ( and hopefully in the upcoming release )?   Bevel and inset are now mouse controllable ( woot!  This one falls under the category of WHAT WERE […]

Well, sorta.   Autodesk just announced the Scaleform is now available as a Unity3D plugin, or as a standalone mobile SDK.  More importantly, it’s available at a price tag of $295 a platform.    Scaleform is used to create UIs for games using the Flash toolset, including ActionScript.  If you’ve played a game in the […]

  I am a bit late to announce this ( like, almost 3 weeks late ), but cocos2D HTML has a new release.  You can read the complete release notes on their website, but there are a few changes that are of particular concern to the tutorials on this site.  Instead of going back an […]

I have run into another snag with using YUI in an MVC app, one that is causing me to look into JQuery + Backbone as an alternative.   It’s a pretty small thing over all, I can’t get actual YUI controls working from Moustache templates.  You need to pass the ID to a control, but […]

A poster, JakobProgsch, over on the TigSource forums has made a series of OpenGL samples available on GitHub. Each example is contained in a single file, doesn’t depend on any non-canonical libraries or hide code behind a framework.  As a results the examples are a bit longer, but easier to follow.   The following topics […]

  I’ve been trying out PlayStation Studio on Windows 8, and the results are pretty poor.   First the bad news, the simulator and Vita drivers don’t work, so you can’t actually run your code.  The good news is though, you can get the tools and IDE working, but you need to jump through a […]