So, Google has just released the Android 4.1 SDK, so lets take a quick look it what’s in there for game developers. Vsync support, screen refreshing at 16 ms systrace, a new kernel level profilinge tool input device querying low level media codec access multi-channel audio audio pre-processing audio chaining ( transition on audio effect […]

  Just a quick note, I may be a bit silent in these parts.  One of my main machines decided that it no longer liked life as a Ubuntu laptop and decided to end it all.  It sadly took my Windows 7 partition with it.   So I am in the rebuilding process.  I am […]

  This tutorial is going to cover creating transition effects between your GameEngine2D scenes.  It is actually going to be rather short and mostly code, as the subject is actually quite simple and consistent between different effects.   All right, lets just right in.  First of all, when need our main application.  This is going […]

  By way of this reddit posting, some interesting news about Unity 4 was posted and then removed.     So what can we expect in Unity 4, according to this article? DirectX 11 support Improved Flash exporting External forces, bent normals and automatic culling of particles dynamic obstacles and avoidance navigation optimized UnityGUI performance […]

  I mentioned Cocos2d-html a few days ago, a HTML5 port of the popular Cocos2D game library, they released a tech demo showing the game in action, Moon Warriors.     I’m not sure how well that will embed within my blog software, so if you have trouble playing you can open it directly here.  […]

  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 […]

  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, […]

  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. […]

    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 […]