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Set to be published in August, this new book Unity 3.x Scripting has been added to the Unity 3D book round up. In the publishers own words: Make your characters interact with buttons and program triggered action sequences Create custom characters and code dynamic objects and players’ interaction with them Synchronize movement of […]
Unity 3.x Scripting added to Unity 3D book round-up Read More
In this tutorial we are going to look at the various Gesture detectors built into the UI layer of the PlayStation Mobile SDK. They all work fairly consistently, so this tutorial is going to be pretty light in explanation. There are 6 gesture detectors built in to the PS SDK; FlickGestureDetector, DragGestureDetector, TapGestureDetector, […]
PlayStation Mobile Tutorial: Pinching, Tapping, Dragging and Flicking… Read More
As I have been working with Cocos2D-html ( and PlayStation GameEngine2D which is based on cocos2D ) lately, I decided to take a look at what the cocos2D book situation was like. While about half as large as my Unity 3D book round-up there is still a nice, growing collection of cocos2D related books. […]
Cocos2D book round-up Read More
It was originally announced that the next version of Visual Studio Express would only be able to develop Metro applications, meaning developers writing traditional desktop, services or console code would have to buy the full Visual Studio. This was a pretty serious blow to not only poor indie developers but also various open […]
Microsoft undoes their stupid. Visual Studio Express 2012 to support desktop development Read More
The following are the Gamefromscratch.com tutorials covering Cocos2D-html, the HTML5 port of the popular Cocos2d-x library. If you are looking to develop a 2D game using HTML5, this is an excellent place to start. The tutorials were all updated on 8/12/2012 to the newest cocos2D code base. Tutorials Tutorial 1: […]
Cocos2D HTML 5 Tutorial Series table of contents Read More
Just a quick note to say I’ve organized my recent Cocos2D posts into a traditional tutorial series, like this site’s C++ and PlayStation Mobile tutorials. You can now access them from the right hand navigation list, or by clicking here. Right now we are at 3 tutorials, plus one related post. More tutorials […]
Cocos2D-html tutorials now officially a series… Read More
After spending so many years as a Windows/Visual Studio developer, Intellisense is a simple must have in my arsenal. In fact, I believe my repeated use of Intellisense actually severed the part of my brain that remembers functions and variables! As I’ve been doing a lot of JavaScript development recently ( between Node.js […]
Setting up JetBrains WebStorm to work with Cocos2D Read More
This tutorial covers the process of getting Cocos2D-html setup and running. If you already have completed this step, skip ahead. It is also going to cover configuring a webserver, an optional ( but relatively easy ) step. All right, lets get started. First thing you need to do is get the cocos2d-html5 […]
Cocos2D HTML5 tutorial 1: Getting set up and running Read More
I can always tell when Diablo 3 servers are being patched as I get an influx of visitors viewing this page. I wrote that when I was experiencing crashes when they last patched the Diablo 3 servers. It would appear the server patch crashes are still occurring. To people having this problem, this […]
Crashing when Diablo 3 patches? Here is a possible fix. Read More
As was just announced at E3, Sony has rebranded PlayStation Suite to PlayStation.mobile. All of our existing tutorials will will still work exactly the same, and I will rebrand them as I come to them. I aim to make this site “the site” for all your PlayStation Mobile programming needs. Code wise, […]
PlayStation Suite is now PlayStation Mobile Read More
