Feel free to drop by and leave any suggestions, bugs or just chat about what you are working on etc..

Our new support forum is here. You will also notice the forum topics list down the right hand side of the window

I’m working on a quick cute game that uses 100% IwGame code and XOML. I’m also doing this as a one man band exercise to show how quickly, easily a game can be put together using the engine (as well as the fact that we have no additional spare resources at the moment); I’ve even done much of the art work myself lol.

The next release of the IwGame engine will be next week sometime, even if the sample game is not 100% complete (I will continue to finish off the game in my spare time so that it can be used as a complete reference). The next release has a mass of additional features along with a number of bug fixes.

We believe that v0.3 will be the stable version of IwGame that we have been waiting for (I would even go as far as calling it a release candidate)

Just want to say a quick thanks to Da Voodoochief over at Sorcery Games for his recent blog on IwGameAds integration and wish him much luck with CTR and fill rates.

We are looking to propagate the IwGame engine beyond the platforms currently supported by the Marmalade SDK and as such we are considering porting IwGame to a number of other platforms in the near future. Which platforms would you like to see support for the most (you can select up to 3):

When we begin porting, some things will unfortunately change as we would need to abstract all Marmalade specific functionality away from the engine to enable easier porting. Mostly this will involve hardware specific functionality and replacement of things such as resource groups. We will however do our best to minimise the disruptions.

Porting will begin when we reach around v0.50, so hopefully in a few months time.

If you are interested in porting IwGame to a different platform then please let us know.

Thanks for voting!

The computer is reported to have better performance than the iPhone 4S. Heres the basic specs:

• The SoC is a Broadcom BCM2835. This contains an ARM1176JZFS, with floating point, running at 700Mhz, and a Videocore 4 GPU. The GPU is capable of BluRay quality playback, using H.264 at 40MBits/s. It has a fast 3D core accessed using the supplied OpenGL ES2.0 and OpenVG libraries.
• RAM 128MB (Model A), 256MB (Model B)
• USB Ports: 1 (2 on Model B)
• Video Outputs: Composite RCA, HDMI
• Audio Outputs: 3.5 mm jack, HDMI
• On-board Storage: SD / MMC / SDIO card slot
• On-board Network: None (Model A) , 10/100 Ethernet (RJ45) (Model B)

And its small enough to fit in your wallet! Like I said mini-awesome

We are so impressed with this little marvel that we are considering porting the IwGame Engine over to enable hobbyist and indie developers to get games up and running quickly on the platform.

Would like to hear your thoughts on the Raspberry Pi

We currently don’t have a clue as to how many developers are using or planning to use IwGameAds. Please let us know by selecting one of the following options

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The problem is that Iw2D is quite naughty in that it does not really save / restore GL states so many of the open GL states could have changed. A few things we noticed in particular are the GL shading model and texture matrix.

To switch back to smooth shading use:

     glShadeModel(GL_SMOOTH);

To repair the texture matrix add the following before you render your GL content:

    glMatrixMode(GL_TEXTURE);
    glPushMatrix();
    glLoadIdentity();

After your GL rendering is finished restore the GL texture matrix:

    glMatrixMode(GL_TEXTURE);
    glPopMatrix();

We will provide an additional GL test bed in our next update

• Inner-active
• AdFonic
• Vserv – Also provides support for InMobi, BuzzCity, JumpTap, ZestAdz / Komli Mobile and Inner-active
• Mojiva
• Millennial Media – Also provides support for AdMob, Amobee, JumpTap and Mojiva
• AdModa

Features include:

• Native and cross platform
• Free and open source
• Fully documented
• Support for multiple platforms (iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android, Bada, Playbook, Symbian, WebOS, Windows Mobile, Mobile Linux, LG-TV, Windows and Mac OS)
• Asynchronously request text, image and html based ads from a variety of ad providers
• Automatic extraction of ad data, such as image url, click url and text
• Provision for targeted ads by age, gender, location etc..
• Integrated ads view that can display animating ads to the user as well as detect clicks and launch the external URL / app that deals with the click destination
• Cache and display multiple ads from multiple providers
• Eye catching animating ads system that is currently generating 3%-8% CTR
• Ad mediation using the priority based IwGameAdsMediator class
• Very simple to install, set-up and use

We have not removed the ad API from the IwGame engine, this is just an additional SDK for those that want to use the ad API away from the game engine.