This post is waaayyyyyy off the topic of game development but it’s one of those things I have been fighting with for months so I figured I’d share the solution in case any of you are having the same issue.   Basically with one of my laptops I would often see my computer crawl […]

      Research in Motion, of Blackberry and Playbook fame, recently released Gameplay 1.2, a cross-platform 3D game programming library aimed at Indie developers.  As a game maker, it is easy to ignore RIM these days, especially with their CEO making comments like:   "We plan to refocus on the enterprise business and capitalise […]

  Somewhere between 2.63RC and 2.63 release the Knife tool was changed so that you need to press Enter or Spacebar to commit the changes.  Previously you could commit using the right mouse button, which I preferred.  Lucky enough, it is easily addressed.   In Blender, selected the menu File->User Preferences…   Switch over to […]

  If you frequent developer related forums, this question probably caused your eyes to roll and the bile to rise in your throat.  People with absolutely no development experience get the game creation bug and of all things want to start with MMOs.  Amazingly enough, there is now a very simple answer…  start here.   […]

    As you might have noticed from my previous post I am currently evaluating Appcelerator and I have to say, the early frustrations are far too common.  In the future I may do a full review, if I don’t give up on it completely.  For now though, let me share a few of the […]

    I appreciate that you gave away your software for free and some of it has real potential, but the volume of spam is getting way too high.      These are some of the emails I have received from DAZ since signing up earlier this month, this doesn’t include my receipts/serial number emails, […]

      Mobile development is certainly hot these days and as a result a number of mobile frameworks have popped up allowing you to target multiple devices with a single code base.  Problem is, it’s not just one or two frameworks we are talking about, more like 20 or 30, maybe even more!   Trying […]

      Ok, let me quickly start with this.   I am an idiot.   I am not denying it, I am currently paying the price for a very stupid action; I have no illusions as to who is primarily to blame, its 100% on me ( well… and Microsoft ).  Anyways….   Several […]

  Google has released their new open sourced write once run anywhere gaming library, PlayN.  Well if by anywhere you mean Android, Flash, HTML5 or Java that is.  Here is the announcement video:     In a nutshell, you write your code in Java and it cross compiles to the 4 supported formats.  It’s odd […]