I have been following RIM’s Gameplay 3d engine for some time now and they have been improving it at a pretty impressive rate.  Well, they just announced the release of version 1.5.  If you’ve never heard of Gameplay, it is a cross platform mobile game development kit written in C++, but scriptable in Lua. […]

  If you followed my Moai tutorial series, you may recall in this post I mentioned that Android keyboard support currently didn’t exist, although there is an effort underway to fix that.  Well, a user over on the Moai forums got sick of waiting and implemented a soft keyboard using MoaiGui, which I covered in […]

Just a heads up, this post has absolutely nothing to do with game development.  It was a little annoyance I ran into today that had a completely unintuitive answer.  I post here so that, thanks to the power of Google, others may learn from my frustration.   I have a laptop that is for portability, […]

As we saw in the last part, our application is made up of a single view composed of 3 child views.  In this post I am going to focus on the left hand view, which is where the actual map will be drawn.  This is easily the most important part.   All I hoped to […]

I am about to embark on a bit of a sidetrack here on GameFromScratch.com, hopefully a few of you find it interesting.   Basically I am going to start looking at developing game tools using HTML5.  Tooling is a massive part of the game development process and traditionally i’ve used RAD client only tools like […]

  Earlier this morning, this news article came across my desk and caught my interest for a number of reasons.  Basically as the title states, Appcelerator – the makers of the popular Titanium mobile development suite have funded a game development technology startup Lanica.   So, why should you care?   Well first off, Appcelerator […]

After a release candidate, followed by another release candidate, Blender 2.64 is finally here.   For game developers, the big release was actually the last one, this release is more focused of VFX, but there is still plenty to get excited about.  Here are details of the release in the Blender Foundation’s own words:   […]

  Not to make any assumptions about your mother’s computing abilities of course!  My mother is flummoxed by powering a computer on and its all down hill from there, so perhaps not quite easy enough *my* mother could do it.  But it is easy, really easy.  Really.  Easy.  This is just one of those areas […]

  In this tutorial, we are going to look at how to play audio using Moai.  This is going to make heavy use of moaigui, so if you haven’t already, you may want to check the prior tutorial in this series.   As always, let’s jump right in to the code.  You may notice that […]

In this prior post I covered the process of configuring JetBrains’ IntelliJ to work with Moai.  As part of the process, I configured a pair of External Tool menu items to launch your code in Moai.  This setup works well enough, but I am a keyboard guy and mousing up to the Tools->Moai->Run Moai… well, it’s […]