'Think Tank' Category
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Yet another IwGame Engine UI Progress Update
May 9, 2012Not had a great deal of spare time to spend on the UI this week but did manage to get a few cool things in there including: Scrolling grids Scrolling list boxes Horizontal list boxes 9-patch brushes Child element sizing based on percentage of parent Child clipping Grid per column bindings Dynamic resizing of elements, [...]
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Luck Bubbles – Why some are luckier than others
May 9, 2012Last year I was sat in the garden on the swing in the blazing son, relaxing and thinking up nonsense. I happened to think back to a chat I had with my father some years before where he said that “if there was no bad luck in the Universe then he would have no luck at [...]
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IwGame UI Progress Update
May 4, 2012Got a quick update showing how the IwGame engines UI system is shaping up. Note that the UI system is “bitmap” based and IwGame does not draw things like buttons, grids etc.. manually. Here’s a quick screen shot at iPad resolution showing some basic UI: This is just a static image however, so you cannot [...]
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Pocketeers Limited is taking on New Mobile Projects
May 3, 2012Need a mobile game or app developed across multiple platforms (iPhone, iPad, Andriod,Bada, PlayBook etc..) at little extra cost? Or maybe you need a rapid prototype of your next game or app idea creating as proof of concept? Pocketeers Limited a UK based mobile app and game developer (established in 2002) responsible for the [...]
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Marmalade Job Post – Playalla Need Word Game Developer
April 30, 2012Hi Everyone, Another job posting has come across my desk recently so here it is. A new start-up called Playalla is seeking a C/C++ Marmalade SDK developer for a short term contract (around 3 months) to help them finish their word games. Playalla already have a prototype of their game up and running based on [...]
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Game Engines Review
April 25, 2012I came across a cool web sit the other day that shows many of the different game engine solutions for mobile platforms at http://mobilegameengines.com. The list itself is very comprehensive and includes information relating to the engines as well as reviews from actual engine users. If you have a spare 5-10 mins please consider leaving a [...]
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Puzzle Friends FREE for iOS Just Released
April 19, 2012IwGame powered Puzzle Friends has just been released on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. This product shows many of the latest IwGame features running in a commercial product on iOS, including in-app purchasing, Facebook posting and dynamic content. It also includes Scoreloop leaderboards which will be integrated into IwGame soon as an extension. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/puzzle-friends/id513683800?ls=1&mt=8 Its [...]
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IwGame Engine Update – XML Schema for XOML Now Available
April 18, 2012Ok, so we’ve heard back from a few of you and its apparent that XOML can be a little difficult to work with especially as it had no intellisense to help create well formed XOML. In the interests of making XOML much easier to write we have created an XML Schema that you can use [...]
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IwGame Engine v0.34 Released – Modifiers, Box2D Joints and Marmalade 6.0 fix
April 17, 2012New here? What’s IwGame? IwGame is an open source free to use cross platform game engine for iPhone, iPad, Android, Bada, Playbook, Symbian, Windows Mobile, LG-TV, Windows and Mac, built on top of the Marmalade SDK. You can find out more and download the SDK from our IwGame Engine page. Well this release is a [...]
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Marmalade 6.0 is out NOW!
April 16, 2012**** IwGame does not compile with Marmalade 6.0. To fix please comment out the following line at the top of IwGameImage.cpp for now. We will release an early update this week to fix it **** //#include “pngstruct.h” Ok, its not often I look in my email box and find good news, but today I saw [...]