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Flurry Friday Episode 7- Dec 2nd WUR Submit & Christmas Game

adamans — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:34:50 +0000

So we did it. Wind Up Robots is submitted first to Apple and as of yesterday The Barnes and Nobles Store for the Nook and the Amazon Store for the Kindle Fire and the Intel AppUp store for PC’s. It will also be available for the the Android Marketplace soon. The game should be available [...]

Just Saw the Kindle Fire and I’m Impressed

Cryptopur — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:28:20 +0000

So we’re all hard at work getting Wind Up Robots ready for the store and as we were doing that I was thinking we ought to look at the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablets as additional platforms. So I hurried on over to Best Buy and picked up the hardware so we could test it [...]

Flurry Friday Episode 6- Nov 18th: WUR Crunch Time

adamans — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:33:04 +0000

So I set out to shoot a video on game icon development and then tried the trial, tribulations and glory of game level design and balancing but when the team saw me coming they either ducked or just glared at me with that look of a bridezilla before the wedding day. Ok, I am overstating [...]

Flurry Friday Episode 5- Nov 11th: WUR Bug Hunting

adamans — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:22:42 +0000

There is an old Spanish saying, “You can’t have more bed-bugs than a blanket-full”. We are not even sure what that means but we sure feel like we have our share of bugs as we near launch for Wind Up Robots. In any final stages of a game project it sure seems like you can. [...]

Morsels Of Memory Management

Cryptopur — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:14:49 +0000

So if there's one thing I'm learning in my career shift to "mobile developer," it's that computer programming is a science and that I'm not a scientist.

Previous thesis statement: memory is a magical unlimited resource. 200 mb webapp? No big deal - my desktop has plenty to spare. Zombie objects? Let 'em be, they're not hurting any one.

New thesis statement: memory management stinks. Texture memory? Draw calls? GPU? Power of 2 Textures? This is starting to smell a lot like the low lands of computer science and less like the flowered fields of Scriptable Mesa in the land of GigaBytes O'Ram.

MeeGo + Photon = Genuine Game Platform

Cryptopur — Wed, 25 May 2011 05:22:38 +0000

So were just wrapping up the 2011 MeeGo conference (#meegoconf) down here in San Francisco and we’ve seen some really cool stuff, heard some interesting news, and met some awesome people – but the first thing I want to write about is a bit of news I just heard from Tom Sperry of Exit Games. [...]

Dear Blackberry, Welcome to the tablet space

Cryptopur — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:20:34 +0000

If you have hung around with us at any trade shows in the last year you probably would have heard one of us, at some point, as “Where is BlackBerry?” Ever since the iPhone started to eat into the smartphone space like one my famished coffee-bean-headed farm zombies we kept waiting for RIM to respond [...]

Taking back the boxed games?: Do you prefer eVersions

adamans — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:00:00 +0000

Are you buying family games this Christmas? We are. We bought a few favorites for the kids, but actually took them back in favor of the eVersions. This was a choice my wife made. That really surprised me. Let me just say in our family, she is not the gadget freak the rest of us [...]

Unity as a muli-platform development environment.

Cryptopur — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:55:04 +0000

To all the folks here who are looking at game creation on AppUp (or elsewhere) we wanted to share our recent experience with the Unity Game Engine. We’ll show a little video here but in short: UNITY ROCKS! Since we made this video we’ve continued to be impressed with all the bodacity in this tool. [...]

The Myth Of Multitasking

Cryptopur — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:08:47 +0000

Multitasking and iOs 4.0 – What it is and what it is not. For a while there it seemed Android phones really had the iPhone beat with a certain feature known as Multi-tasking. It was all over the news and yadda yadda yada. Then Apple announced an upgrade that now includes – wait for it [...]