The Goji Editor has undergone some major changes over the past few months with the biggest change being tight integration into the Marmalade tool chain and removal for direct support for Gideros and Corona. If you are a Marmalade SDK developer and want to see a quick overview of the new Marmalade SDK integration features […]
Booty5 – Free HTML5 Game Engine
I’ve finally branched out into HTML5 game development, I’ve been avoiding it for years but finally took the plunge. Funnily enough my first creation with HTML5 is the Free Games Bandit, a service to help game developers get their mobile games noticed. I found myself actually enjoying working with JavaScript, CSS and HTML5. I’ve changed […]
Compile Programs Online
On my travels I came across a brilliant tool that’s very useful, especially for programmers that want to learn a new language. The tool is called Compile Online. The tool allows you to write code into the browser, compile and run it. The main advantages of this type of service is a) You don’t need […]
New to the Marmalade SDK?
So you downloaded the Marmalade SDK, but you haven’t quite got around to using it yet. Maybe you plan on developing full on native speed games? Maybe you want to develop apps that run across a large number of platforms? Or you just want to avoid XCode and Mac to develop iPhone and iPad games. […]
Free Games Bandit – FREE amazing new app discovery service for users and developers
I’m quite excited to announce a new free mobile games and apps discovery service called Free Games Bandit. Free Games Bandit was invented to serve two purposes: App discovery from the users point of view First and foremost, as an avid mobile app user and gamer I have a MASSIVE gripe with app stores such […]
Getting your app featured on Google Play – What to do and not to do
Looking at my recent app sales / downloads and feeling quite disappointed I sat wondering why none of my apps have yet been featured on Google Play. I searched around and around and finally found something that could explain why. A recent-ish (2012 to be exact) talk by Dan Galpin and Ian Lewis at the […]
HTML 5 Gotchas
On this page I will place all of the gotchas that I come across during my HTML 5 developments. IndexSizeError: Index or size is negative or greater than the allowed amount I got this error Firefox and a similar error in Internet Explorer whilst drawing an image to the HTML 5 canvas using drawImage(). The […]
Marmalade SDK 7.3.1 is out now, Fortumo, FBX exporter and other cool additions
Yep that’s right, Marmalade 7.3.1 is smoking hot and fresh off the press. In case you have been developing games in a cave somewhere with no internet connection the Marmalade SDK is an awesome piece of technology that enables you to create games that run across many different mobile and desktop platforms with “one single […]
HTML5 cheat sheet
This page is basically a dumping ground for all the useful bits of info that relates to HTML5 development. Useful HTML5 semantic elements <article> – Defines an article in the document <aside> – Defines content aside from the other page content <footer> – Defines the footer for a section in the document <header> – Defines […]
HTML 5 Journey Part 1 – What is HTML 5 tutorial
I’ve always liked web development (from a gaming perspective), but not to the same extent as I have good old solid native development with C++. The main reason being “JavaScript”. To be honest, I did JavaScript years and years ago and it terrified me, I couldn’t get used to not having pointers and variables that […]
Goji Editor the game IDE update
Just a quick heads up on the direction of the Goji Editor. With the news of a free Marmalade SDK license becoming available, I am going to rework Goji to integrate much more tightly with the Marmalade SDK. This will include features such as: Integration into the Marmalade build and deployment system, enabling deployment to […]
ShinAnimals the Android, iPhone, iPad and iPod game lives!
And my latest creation is now live, ShinAnimals a fun Yorkshire themed arcade puzzle game made using AppEasy> (Powered under the hood by the Marmalade SDK) and the Goji Editor. You can download from Google Play at: