New Version of Ludei CocoonJS Provides PhoneGap Alternative for Developers to Compile HTML5 Apps
Saturday, April 12, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Ludie has announced CocoonJS 2.0, the latest version of its platform which allows developers to compile HTML5 apps.With CocoonJS 2.0 developers can compile their project in the Canvas+, Ludie’s accelerated canvas to accelerate a game, or WebView+, the Chromium-based WebView able to run DOM-based games and apps. This allows developers to take advantage of each ...
Game Developers Conference Wrap up: Five Things We Learned
Friday, March 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
As the Game Developers Conference (GDC) comes to a close, what are the big picture thoughts we can take away?1) Console gaming still has legs – A number of new titles from game publishing titans in the industry were rolled out. Sony announced its new Project Morpheus virtual reality (VR) system for the PlayStation4, Microsoft announced DirectX 12 and...
Corona's New Graphics 2.0 is Now Public Beta
Saturday, October 12, 2013 by Richard Harris
Corona has been busy rewriting their Graphics library, and has recently made the Beta of their Graphics 2.0 available to Pro and Enterprise subscribers.
The new Graphics has been designed to allow everything to interoperate seamlessly, and to try and not breaking existing code. Lots of new features have been implemented from complex mesh geometry to feeding a live came...
Weekly Roundup: Apple Developer Outage, Jellybean 4.3, Amazon and Windows Phone, Unity and Blackberry 10, and GDC 2014
Saturday, July 27, 2013 by Richard Harris
From the Editors DeskThis weekend is the last weekend before the August issue release and there has been no shortage of news to cover! From the Apple outage, to the Android 4.3 Jellybean update this week has been one for the books! We won't be publishing a podcast this week, while put all of our efforts towards putting the finishing touches on the August issue, but we'l...
Ouya Kicks Off $1 Million US Funds to Encourage Developers to Create Games for Console
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 by Richard Harris
Ouya has announced that it is offering developers a chance to receive a piece of $1 Million US as a way to encourage the development of games for its new console.
Called the "Free the Games Fund," the company is encouraging developers to utilize Kickstarter to attract funding for their game development. Developers that raise a minimum of $50,000US will receive matching...
The day of OUYA is coming March 28th to early backers
Thursday, February 28, 2013 by Richard Harris
Did you opt in for the first round of OUYA Android console device shipping? Your delivery date is coming soon says the company, beginning March 28, ahead of it's actual June retail launch.Developers have had the Android powered cube since December of 2012, but this shipping date is for consumers that backed the funding of the device when it was "Kick-Started" last year....
OUYA SDK Released plus extras for devs
Monday, December 31, 2012 by Richard Harris
Coming as a nice surprise, 1,200 developers will be getting a special edition translucent version of the Dev Console. There are also already 10 games, coming from 10 different developers and include the following; Fist of Awesome, MechKnight Chronicles, Syder Arcade, KidElectro, Space Runner, Legend of Dungeon, iMechOnline, DustyRevenge, HolyShield!...
OUYA SDK published
Friday, December 28, 2012 by Richard Harris
The much anticipated OUYA SDK has been released for developers to start working on their Android / OUYA console games and apps.“An open game console that gives independent game developers the
flexibility to experiment with their games and business models on the
TV, is something that’s long overdue.” — David Edery (Spry Fox, creator
of Triple Town)...
Ouya shipment on time, Android developers rejoice!
Saturday, December 1, 2012 by Richard Harris
The much anticipated Android powered little cube called Ouya is set to ship out on time. Still set for shipment on December 28th. Ouya successfully raised $8.5 million in funds through crowd source funding on kickstarter.com. The little Android-powered cube only costs $95 and will be in the hands of early supporters very soon.The developers kit is is a whoppi...
If Apple ran the video game business, this is what is would look like.
Thursday, November 29, 2012 by Richard Harris
A CNN report claims that tablet computers are the future of the video games industry, and given Apple's stronghold over the tablet industry that means the iPad (for the foreseeable future) is going to be the future of gaming. Not just handheld gaming, mind – all gaming.If this comes to pass – and it's requiring something of a mental leap from ourselves – ...
