Free Booty5 HTML5 Game Maker Manual e-book now available

The first version of the Booty5 HTML5 Game Maker Manual e-book is now available for free download. Find out more on the Booty5 free e-book page.

Booty5 v1.8.9b now available – Code restructure and Actions Lists

Booty5 1.8.9b out NOW Booty5 1.8.9b represents a big shift towards making the Booty5 JavaScript engine more modern, a number of major changes have taken place to the engine including: Code restructured All classes moved into the b5 namespace TheApp class renamed to App window.app replaced with b5.app Added new property to App called canvas_fill_window […]

Marmalade v Unity Speed and Size Matters

Marmalade have recently carried out speed and deployment size tests between test apps written with both Marmalade SDK and Unity 3D and the results are somewhat surprising. The test app basically displays a little over 400 animating sprites. Here are the results: Unity APK size is 658% larger than the Marmalade APK size Unity app […]

Build Flash Style HTML5 Games with Booty5

The latest version of Booty5 the free HTML5 game maker now has support for creating Flash like animations, enabling web developers to create Flash like games across mobile and desktop browsers using an easy to use WYSIWYG game editor. A screen shot of the editor in actions is shown below: View a demo that was […]

Marmalade 7.5 arrives

The incredible cross platform native game development SDK the Marmalade SDK version 7.5 is now available for free download. Major changes include: 64-bit support for iOS (new apps submitted from 1st April 2015 are required to have 64-bit support), so it is essential that you get this update soon Google Play Services support for iOS […]

Booty5 1.8.6b out now – audio fallback, templates, merged caches

Engine Changes: Added new property to Actor called merge_cache which when set to true will attempt to merge the actors rendering into a suitable parents cache. Note that once an actor has been merged into its parent its visual properties cannot be modified Add new property to TheApp called focus_scene2 which sets a 2nd scene […]

Booty5 v1.8.5b out now – Cached rendering and Marmalade SDK Audio Support

Well the proof is in the eating and not the making. I’ve spent some time putting together a small game using Booty5 called Leapo that I will eventually distribute as an example of how to use Booty5. Whilst developing this game I have come across various issues or missing features, hence this update. Booty5 game […]

Booty5 v1.8.4b the free HTML5 game maker out now, support for the Marmalade SDK added

I realise that two updates inside of a week is a bit much but I wanted to get this update out quickly because I have changed the way gradients are used by game objects substantially, I’ve also added project generation for the Marmalade SDK using Web Marmalade. Web Marmalade is a system that enables you […]