February 2012
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Optimising with Unity for iOS →
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Export timeline animations from Adobe Flash and... →
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Win Free Copies of Android books →
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Packt Publishing is about to give away 100 Unity3D... →
Marketing blurb aside, the main point of that post is:
Here’s how it works.
1) Someday soon they will announce the release of Unity iOS Game Development Beginner’s Guide from the @packtexplorer twitter account using the code #unityiosRT
2) The first 100 unique re-tweets get the book free!
3) You need to be a follower of @packtexplorer (if you’re doing gamedev you probably...
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bhambhu asked: lol do you work for packt?, I am like leaving game making forever...
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Salaries of Web Developers around the world →
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App's cost money →
pragmaticprogrammer:
Great post about people’s general shock when you tell them about typical app development prices
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Hello Kitty jets: Cutest airplanes ever →
Anonymous asked: How many words is your nanowrimo novel?
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February is Pitchapalooza! →
Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!! Must submit! Now, summarize my novel in 200 words… Also which novel, my first NaNo or my second NaNo?
Which seems more interesting a teen novel about the secret lives of stalkers? Or a novel about a girl who confuses her dreams with reality?
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Unity Books Giveaway Contests hosted by other...
So am browsing the Unity3D forums and noticed that not one but two people (blogs) are hosting book giveaway contests!
ABitGames Dev Blog are giving away 6 copies of Unity 3.x Game Development Essentials and Unity iOS Essentials.
Link: http://abitgames.com/2012/blog/great-unity-books-giveaway-contest/
Will Goldstone, the author of Unity 3.x Game Development Essentials, is also holding a...
Anonymous asked: Hi purplegirl,I have reead your tutorial on recording audio when a user start speaking and playing it when stops speaking. It works fine for very first time but after playing any sound then the peakPowerForChannel: and averagePwerForChannel: methods giving constant values. So I cant detect sound again. If i restart my app then it detects sond for first time again. If you have solution for this...
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Quick Review: Unreal Development Kit Game...
First thing I noticed about the book is, it’s written by a girl! The book is written by Rachel Cordone.
I don’t have any experience with Unreal, and am even a bit nervous to try it. But this book says its for beginners, so I decided to give it a read.
So far Chapter 1 has been very clear in teaching me how to install UDK. It gives very clear instructions (screenshots included!),...
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元宵節快樂！
Also known as Lantern Festival, and true enough, one of the activities for the day is flying paper lanterns.
Photo taken by @joannareyes last year, when we went to Pingxi’s Sky Lantern festival.
duspan asked: hi how come you can speak tagalog? :D im a pinoy and im a fan of your blog :D desperately want to learn coding an iphone apps :D
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TIBE (Taipei International Book Exhibition)
After that crowded affair at TGS, books are the thing to make me feel better.
My sister and I met up at Eslite in Taipei City Hall and headed to the TWTC (Taipei World Trade Center?), where TIBE was held.
On the way there, we saw cherry blossoms. The sight of cherry blossoms and the warm weather makes me happy :).
TIBE sign. The exhibition spans 3 halls, the first is General Books, the...
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TGS (Taipei not Tokyo, Game Show)
So I went to my first Taipei Game Show today. Since my boss gave us tickets, my team mates and I decided to check it out.
The first sign I saw, is that they have this game companies recruitment thing in one of the halls. Since I arrived earlier than my team mates, I went to check that part out. It was crowded with gamers who dreams of making their own games, so I couldn’t really get...
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Chinese New Year Break Part 2
Sun Moon Lake, Nantou
Since we got started on the road pretty early (5:30 am!) we arrived early (around 7:30am), and waited a bit for the parking lot and then the ticketing of the cable cars to start.
We got our tickets and our number (200+!), then we had to wait for the cable cars to start.
Lookie here, my aunt’s chihuahua is a little sheep :) It was cold and the doggies need...
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Mini Tutorial: How to create only one set of GUI...
So, there’s the old iPhone resolution (480x320) and then there’s the retina (960x640). Question is, how do you just create one set of GUI that can fit both resolutions? Because you know scaling and adjusting the GUI elements is such a bother.
Code bit:
public float screenWidth = 960; public float screenHeight = 640;
private Matrix4x4 tMatrix;
void Awake () { ...
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How to create physics objects in Cocos2D with just...
Answer: PhysicsEditor
The PhysicsEditor is a shape editor for physics engines like Box2D and Chipmunk.
Before when I was making physics objects in Cocos2D, I used VertexHelper (Johannes Fahrenkrug), which is great and all, but there were a lot of things that you had to consider, such as you had to define the vertices yourself (meaning: ‘click “around” each sprite to define it’s...
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Chinese New Year Break Part 1
Taipei -> Kaoshiung -> Pintung -> Kaoshiung -> Tainan -> Nantou -> Tainan -> Kaoshiung -> Taipei
Like a package, my sister and I have been transferred from one relative to another. And that is why this past Chinese New Year’s break, we have been to so many places, and it was fun :)
We took an almost 8-hour train ride form Taipei to Kaoshiung, because my sister...
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Quick Review: Unity iOS Essentials
I am currently reading “Unity iOS Essentials”, which I won from ManiacDev’s book giveaway contest.
And so far, I find that this book seems to be all over the place and it inspires to be a Game Design book.
Why made me think so? Well, Chapter 1 is about Planning Ahead for an Unity iOS Game, it starts out pretty clear, it aims to give the readers a little heads up before they...
January 2012
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Cocos2d for iPhone 1 Game Development Cookbook...
So I used random.org to draw the winners… and the winners are… *drumroll*…
tetna
win_t
mishta
cocos2Developer
Since I allowed different ways to enter my contest, some of the winners on the list are from the cocos2d forums, while some are on Twitter.
So winners, please contact me (or check your forum messages or DMs) :)
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Review: Cocos2d for iPhone 1 Game Development...
“Cocos2d for iPhone 1 Game Development Cookbook” is written by Nathan Burba (@nathanburba).
According to the description, it has “over 90 recipes for iOS 2D game development using cocos2d”. and just by looking at it’s Table of Contents, you’d see that this book covers a lot of topics (some advanced techniques that other cocos2d books have not covered). It...
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Unity 3D Game Development by Example Beginner’s...
A few months ago, I wrote a blog post on #AltDevBlogADay reviewing a Unity3D book written by Ryan Henson Creighton, Unity 3D Game Development by Example Beginner’s Guide (buy the book, it’s pretty good, so far), but I only gotten around to Chapter 4.
So for this blog post, I will go through some of the other chapters, particularly Chapter 5 and 6, which is about making a game...
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Mini Tutorial: How to batch replace textures with...
In relation to my previous tutorial: Mini Tutorial: How to batch convert image files to PVR (for iPhone app development)?
So you have a Unity project that was previously not planned for iOS (for PC, Mac or web or whatever), and you might not be as conscious of the texture file formats (iOS is probably the only one with so many constraints).
According to Unity’s User Manual:
Use iOS...
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Cocos2d for iPhone 1 Game Development Cookbook...
UPDATE: This contest is now closed
Like I mentioned in my previous post, Packt published a new Cocos2d book and they asked me to hold a giveaway contest. I’m holding it both here and in the Cocos2d forums (http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/28099).
So here it is, rules, rules:
Just visit the Packt book page http://www.packtpub.com/cocos2d-for-iphone-1-game-development-cookbook/book...
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Cocos2d for iPhone 1 Game Development Cookbook
Packt recently released a new Cocos2d book: “Cocos2d for iPhone 1 Game Development Cookbook” by Nathan Burba.
Overview of Cocos2d for iPhone 1 Game Development Cookbook
Discover advanced Cocos2d, OpenGL ES, and iOS techniques spanning all areas of the game development process
Learn how to create top-down isometric games, side-scrolling platformers, and games with realistic...
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Assembling an electric fan - challenge accepted
3D Puzzle from Neil (disassembled electric fan). Since my boy genius friend (21 year old master’s graduate) just well graduated and will be moving back to the Philippines, he donated his electric to us. And the only way to transfer it from Taoyuan to Taipei is by disassembling it. I had no idea electric fans can be disassembled.
Do I need to have a degree in engineering to figure this...
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Palawan December 24 2011
We went island hopping!
Our first destination is this little hut in the middle of the sea, with a turtle roof. And our activity was snorkeling! (another first for me)
There were a lot of fishies swimming around us, it’s so pretty (unfortunately we don’t have an underwater camera).
The next location is an actual island. It’s called Snake island, because it is a long like...
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Palawan December 23 2011
Included with our Cebu Pacific package is the Underground River tour and the Mangroves Paddle Boat tour.
We took a motorboat to the underground river. It was open sea, and the waves were pretty big.
The underground river is considered a wonder of nature and a natural world heritage site.
Here we go!
The water is brackish, which means it’s part sea water, part fresh water.
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Palawan December 22 2011
We spent our Christmas this year a bit different, instead of our usual noche buena at home, we flew to Puerto Princesa, Palawan for four days and three nights.
Cebu Pacific had a promo wherein we booked our plane tickets, hotel room and Underground River tour for around 30k PHP for 4 people!
Puerto Princesa airport.
In Puerto Princesa, littering is strictly prohibited, so it’s so...
December 2011
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Mini Tutorial: How to batch convert image files to...
According to Unity3D’S manual, when developing for iOS
Use iOS native PVRT compression formats. They will not only decrease the size of your textures (resulting in faster load times and smaller memory footprint), but also can dramatically increase your rendering performance! Compressed texture requires only a fraction of memory bandwidth compared to full blown 32bit RGBA textures.
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Postcards from New York
Thank you David @BitsAtPlayDev :)
