IwGame Engine – Using Templates Tutorial

New 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. A forum poster asked a question recently that made me realise that XOML Templates can quite… Read more“IwGame Engine – Using Templates Tutorial”

IwGame Engine Tutorial – Image, Brush, Animation and Timeline Overview

New 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. This tutorial is a basic overview of the image, brush, animation and timeline systems. Images Art… Read more“IwGame Engine Tutorial – Image, Brush, Animation and Timeline Overview”

IwGame Engine v0.36 Released – XML Data bindings, Video, True Type Fonts and First 100% XOML Mark-up Driven Game

New here? What’s IwGame? IwGame is an open source free to use cross platform game and app 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… Read more“IwGame Engine v0.36 Released – XML Data bindings, Video, True Type Fonts and First 100% XOML Mark-up Driven Game”

The Worlds first 100% XML Mark-up Driven Puzzle Game made with XOML

Well we finally cracked it, we’ve been aiming to create a game in 100% XOML mark-up and it finally happened. We created a small logic puzzle game called 10. The game itself has simple rules. The screen is filled with cards, each card having a value of 0 to 9…. Read more“The Worlds first 100% XML Mark-up Driven Puzzle Game made with XOML”

IwGame – How to mix raw Open GL with IwGame Scenes

A fellow developer recently had the need to mix raw Open GL with IwGame scenes so I decided to take a look into the matter. The problem with mixing the Marmalade SDK’s graphics sub systems IwGx and Iw2D with raw Openm GL is two fold: Marmalade’s IwGxClear() / Iw2DSurfaceClear() functions… Read more“IwGame – How to mix raw Open GL with IwGame Scenes”

New Marmalade SDK FAQ

I trawl the Marmalade SDK forums from time to time and I see many questions that come up from time to time. In an attempt to answer those questions and cut down Marmalade forum traffic I have started a Marmalade SDK FAQ that should hopefully help fellow Marmalade developers find… Read more“New Marmalade SDK FAQ”

IwGame Engine v0.35 Released – Multi-touch User Interface, XOML Programs, 9-Patch Rendering and Arrays

New 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…. Read more“IwGame Engine v0.35 Released – Multi-touch User Interface, XOML Programs, 9-Patch Rendering and Arrays”

IwGame Engine 0.35 coming this weekend with luck

Its been a long hard slog getting the UI update in but we finally feel confident that there are enough features in the UI system now to release IwGame 0.35 this week / early next week.  The new bindable UI makes the IwGame engine equally potent as a general app… Read more“IwGame Engine 0.35 coming this weekend with luck”

Marmalade SDK 6.0.2 Released

Marmalade have just released 6.0.2 of their awesome SDK. Looking at the change list there are some very welcome bug fixes: Exporters: Added support for Maya 2013 and Max 2012 iOS: touches are no longer passed to the surface below the web view iOS: s3eOSReadString now handles split keyboards correctly… Read more“Marmalade SDK 6.0.2 Released”

Yet another IwGame Engine UI Progress Update

Not 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… Read more“Yet another IwGame Engine UI Progress Update”