Much has been said about testing your Android applications on several different devices , and several different services exist to test deployment of your application if you want to make sure it runs on certain devices. But in my opinion, nothing beats releasing beta Android applications on Google Play. To illustrate what I mean, a […]
Continue reading →One of the best things to come out of CES 2013 was Qualcomm’s bizarre attempt at giving a keynote. Here’s a video of the highlights (which are also covered in this article at The Verge): Other than the standard amount of cringeworthy moments – as a gamer, I could not stand more than 2 seconds […]
Continue reading →Last weekend was the 25th edition of Ludum Dare, the online 48-hour game development competition. My entry was called Fry Fleshlings Fast, a somewhat constrained effort due to time restrictions (but still a fun effort, of course). I have just published a post-mortem about its development on Ludum Dare’s official blog denoting what went right and […]
Continue reading →It’s time for Android developers to start creating their applications for Android version 4.0 or higher. My own personal and experimental Android applications are seeing a bigger Android 4+ user base than anything else. Kana Mind, for example, supports Android 2.2+ but only 5% of its user base is using this version… 36% is on […]
Continue reading →Ludum Dare, the 48-hour game development compo, will take place in the week of December 14th-17th. The theme suggestion round has just opened; you can suggest one here.
Continue reading →Chris Heilmann (Principal Developer Evangelist of the Mozilla Developer Network) recently talked at HTML5DevCon San Francisco on HTML5 and the state of the web right now. This is the video of his 1-hour talk: I’d say it is spot on. Overselling and overbuying the state of HTML5 technology – by people either too ignorant to […]
Continue reading →Internet Explorer 10 will be available as a preview release for Windows 7 in mid-November, and then as a stable release for the general public… at, uh, some point later. As we approach general availability of Windows 8, we want to provide an update on IE10 for Windows 7. We will release a preview of […]
Continue reading →Tim Stutts from PushPopDesign wrote a very apt post titled “Who works with creative coders?“, analyzing the responsibilities of what’s assumed to be creative coders and listing a bunch of (great) companies in the process. Choice quote: The world is also no longer flat, but fully 3D, immersive, augmented, to the point where traditional design […]
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Continue reading →Via Pablo Marques, here’s a inspiring video: Valve Software’s Chet Faliszek (one of my favorite persons ever, half of the old but hilarious Old Man Murray website) on How to give yourself a job in the games industry: Despite the title, the video is not just about the game industry – in a nutshell, it’s […]
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