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 […]

  You’ve probably seen me ( and many others ) mention ngons in the past and if you are drawing a bit of blank on why they matter, here is a bit of a demonstration.  An ngon is simply a face with more than 4 edges.  Let me illustrate.   Let’s say you have a […]

  So, it might be obvious by the fact the last five posts have all been Moai related…  Well, I have embarked on a Moai tutorial series.   This series is meant to make the very professional oriented Moai SDK more accessible to all developers.  There isn’t a glut of information out there, so I […]

  As of right now we have exactly nothing, so anything is an improvement.  Let’s start our game journey off with a bang… or at least a window.  Without further ado, some code:   screenWidth = MOAIEnvironment.screenWidth screenHeight = MOAIEnvironment.screenHeight print("Starting up on:" .. MOAIEnvironment.osBrand .. " version:" .. MOAIEnvironment.osVersion) if screenWidth == nil then […]

  The following is a guide on how to download and configure IntelliJ IDEA for use with MOAI/LUA development.  It is based heavily on information found in this thread, although it goes into a great deal more detail and uses the most recent versions as of 8/22/2012.   First and foremost, go and download IntelliJ […]

  SDK is downloaded and installed.  For some bizarre reason, you need to sign up before downloading the SDK ( which… is freely available in source code form on Github… ).  Once you’ve signed up and signed in, head over to https://dashboard.moaicloud.com/download.php and download it.  Personally I am using the August developer snapshot, because apparently, […]

  Moai is one of those projects that has been drawing my interest for a very long time.  If you have never heard of it, Moai is an open source, cross-platform game engine written in C++ but scripted using LUA.  The most obvious comparison that comes to mind is to think of Moai as a […]

  Today Sony released more information about the upcoming PlayStation Mobile launch.  If you have never heard of it, PlayStation Mobile is a development platform for creating games on the PlayStation Vita as well as a number of Android based devices.  Originally that list included mostly just Sony’s line of Android devices but that is […]

  This post over on the gamedev forums at reddit caught my eye.  User @Mattrix has released a framework for creating 2D games using Unity with code only.  This effectively turns Unity in to a runtime only; it makes almost zero use of the tools provide with Unity and in many cases completely re-invents things […]