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 […]

As per this post, Moai 1.3 has been released.  If you have never heard of it, Moai is a cross platform, mobile focused, Lua based game development library written in C++, that is open source and completely free.  A lot of focus was put into MOAISim.setTraceback to enable better error reporting.  The list of announced […]

  The author contacted me a few weeks up with a heads up that he had a Moai friendly Lua IDE in development and I said I would look into it… and well, I didn’t.  Things came up, then something else and something else and frankly it got pushed into the back of my mind.  […]

  Alright, the title might be a bit over the top… what we are about to do is look at some of the most popular 2D game engines powered by Lua.  First there will be a matrix of features, to give you an “at a glance” view of what each engine offers.  Then we will […]

  Just last week I announced the release of Blender 2.64 RC 1, well it appears that 2.64 wasn’t quite ready for prime time, as there is now another release candidate.   Since this is a second release candidate, I assume there is no new functionality ( the release notes are shared with the last […]

This is one of those things I am constantly searching for, so I figured I might as well put something together so I end up on my own site!   The following is simply a list of devices and their respective screen resolutions.  I am writing this as much for me as anything else, but […]

A pair of engine related items in the news today.     First off, Unity signed an *extensive* deal with Nintendo permitting them to include a version of Unity with their Wii U SDK, both internally, externally and to 3rd party licensees.  In Unity’s own words:           This extensive agreement will […]

I ran into a small problem today, that took more then a few cycles to puzzle out.   Basically I was installing and configuring Moai to work on Mac, and this process had a few steps. First I had to install the FMOD libraries and configure them in Xcode.  Then I needed to build each […]