We are now going to look at creating a fully textured model in Blender and exporting to a PlayStation Studio SDK project, a simple model viewer.  We create a very simple model, UV map, texture then export it.  At this point, we process it using the PS Studio ModelConverter tool, import it into PS […]

  This is part 2 of our series looking at getting a fully textured model from Blender to the PlayStation Vita, or at least, the simulator.   In part 1 we created and exported our textured model, a simple 6 sided die.  Now we are going to convert it into a format the PlayStation Suite […]

  In this tutorial we are going to manually manage the game loop manually.  Additionally we are going to look at the various ways of handling input from the gamepad.  This tutorial builds on the code we developed in the previous tutorial.  As you may recall, we created a “Hello World” sprite and centered it […]

    There is a charter somewhere that states all tutorial series must start with the ubiquitous Hello World tutorial, and who am I to break the charter?  So that is exactly what we are going to do here, a simple Hello World. This is as much about getting up and running with PS Studio […]

    This post is going to take a look at what’s included with the PS SDK, PlayStation Suite Studio and all the various included tools and tutorials.  So if you are wondering what is included in the PSSDK or have downloaded it and are trying to figure out what exactly you’ve got, this post […]

    I am really enjoying the PS Suite and compared to the Android emulator, the PlayStation Suite Simulator is extremely fast, but also extremely limited.  Perhaps most annoying, the joystick is actually handled using the keyboard.  I had sort of pictured being able to plug in a joystick on my development PC, but sadly […]

    Alright I admit it, something shiny and new came along and of course I am attracted to it!  As I mentioned a few days back, the Cocos2d-x team released Cocos2d-html, an HTML5 port of the popular Cocos2D iPhone game library.   I have never worked with a Cocos2D library yet, although Sony’s GameEngine2D […]

  There was an interesting ( to me anyways… ) topic on Reddit today about making games that are accessible to the blind or visual impaired.  After thinking about this for a little bit, I though that there might be a remarkably easy way to add text to speech to a console based game.  Turns […]

    As some of you may have noticed earlier today, the site was displaying a configuration related error message.  I am frankly a bit confused at what the cause was, as when I modified my web.config to show me the error, it went away!   Also, if you’ve gone to use the contact me […]

    Oh joy of joys.  Tonight I get some nasty work off my plate and decide to wind down for some Diablo 3 action.  Initially I start encountering server problems and a quick check on their server status page shows that their servers are down.  Great.   So I let about an hour go […]