When creating games (or, really, any sort of animation) using ActionScript, most developers rely on the ENTER_FRAME event to synchronize their actions with when a frame is being rendered on the screen (effectively using it as their game loop). In any way you look at it, that’s the right way to do it, but it […]
Continue reading →I’ve been toying around with creating OUYA content with Adobe AIR, and I’m happy to say it’s a pretty easy and straightforward development workflow. Information on it is hard to come by, though, and the official Adobe AIR support samples doesn’t seem to exist anymore, so here’s a few high-level notes on how to get […]
Continue reading →As of tomorrow, June 25th, I’ll have been in New York for four years. I wrote a little bit about the experience shortly after arriving in the city, as much as a reminder for myself and as a way to explain my point of view to friends. I don’t like the idea of that lingering […]
Continue reading →I have mixed feelings about Android Studio, Google’s new IDE for Android development. On the one hand, the official Eclipse-based ADT has always been pretty bad. Performance is terrible, memory consumption is insane, it breaks down all the time, and I have persistent issues that force me to “clean” projects and restart the application dozens […]
Continue reading →The 26th edition of the weekend-long competition Ludum Dare is just wrapping up. The theme this time around was “Minimalism”, and as I had decided to create something for the Oculus Rift, I decided to re-create a scene of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey: the scene where astronaut David Bowman has to rescue Dr. […]
Continue reading →If it’s not obvious by previous posts or some of my posts on Twitter, I’ve been playing with the Unity platform for a while. The idea is to learn enough of it to be able to create a Unity game for Ludum Dare (which, incidentally, will take place again this weekend). My previous Ludum Dare games […]
Continue reading →This video has been making the rounds recently. It is somewhat longer than it could have been, but I still think every web developer should watch it. Loading a web page is a slow affair, especially on mobile devices. Everybody knows that. The important point, explained in the video, is that there are techniques that […]
Continue reading →Facebook has just announced their new mobile initiative on Android, called Facebook Home. After much speculation from the tech press predicting anything from a Facebook phone to just an update to their existing mobile app, the real deal seems to be something in the middle: a mix of new applications that work on top of […]
Continue reading →Since I’ve had my first web server set up – somewhere around the year 2000 – I’ve been running tools to analyse my logs daily and generate statistics of visits such as referrers, browser versions, screen resolution, and other useful data. I have tried several different tools since then, but the one I’ve been using […]
Continue reading →This morning I was thinking to myself, “I wonder if you can create models dynamically in Unity in order to develop a game with procedural assets”. A quick search led me to Unity’s reference page for the Mesh object, and to my surprise, this is the description of the object: A class that allows creating […]
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