As per this post I am currently going through the process of creating some simple game creation tools using HTML5, more specifically using the YUI 3 library as well as the EaselJS canvas library.   This post illustrates the very skeleton upon which we are going to create our app.  YUI3 provides a full […]

  Zipline just announced a new release of the Moai SDK, 1.3r2.  This release is mostly due to the release of iOS 6 and is a bit of a double edged sword.  What’s the catch you say?   Most importantly, we have updated the Moai Xcode project to support Apple’s latest Xcode version 4.5 and […]

This post is going to look at getting your Moai app to run under NaCL, which is Google’s mechanism for allowing you to execute C++ code within Chrome.  There are a number of restrictions, but fortunately Zipline have done most of the hard work for us.   Like any other platform, your code is run […]

  A level is made up of sprites and sprites come from somewhere.  In our editor, we are going to allow the user to “upload” multiple image files containing sprite sheets.  However, are server is not required and that is going to require a bit of work.  Also, we are going to need some form […]

Our application hasn’t looked very… applicationy up until this point.  The menu area was basically a space full with “coming soon”.  In this post we will address adding a menu to our HTML app and show how we can pass fire and handle menu click events.   First change I suppose, we need a menu.  […]

A month ago I started looking for a Mac based alternative to the excellent Windows Live Writer and thought I may have found one in the form of MarsEdit. It came with a 30 day trial and my final verdict was a bit mixed.  It was a very pleasant writing experience, if that makes any […]

  Sony, actually… and file this under the category of longest most unwieldy names ever, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios Europe External Development Studio (yeah… really) in collaboration with Creative England and Birmingham Science Park have put together a contest called PlayStation Pioneers, with a grand prize of £25,000.  That’s about 40K in real money! […]

  I recently read this ( very good ) blog post documenting the process of developing and publishing the game Pumped BMX and was struck by one thing.  I really really liked the font he used on his site, it was clean but not gimmicky.   It turns out the font is Open Sans, created […]

  I don’t think there are many people out there that would argue that JavaScript isn’t an important language.  It certainly is, and with the recent death of Flash and Silverlight in the browser and the hype behind HTML5, to say nothing of Node, it is actually getting more popular   I also don’t think […]

  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. […]