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In this Closer Look At we are going to be taking a closer look at the SFML framework. The Closer Look At series is a combination of an introduction, overview and getting started tutorial that is designed to help you quickly decide if a game engine/framework/library is right for you. SFML stands for Simple […]
Gamefromscratch has a long running series taking an indepth look at various game engines available. Today we are going to look at the Godot game engine, an open source C++ based game engine with a complete Unity-esque world editor. Godot runs on Windows, Linux and Mac platforms and can target all of those, plus […]
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part Now that we have Cocos2d-x installed and configured and our project created, we are going to take a look at basic graphics operations. This tutorial assumes you ran through the prior part and created a project already. I am going to assume you have a working […]
Now that Project Anarchy is out, I’ve decided to take a look at what you actually get. If you’ve never heard of it before, Project Anarchy is a collection of Havok game development tools made available completely free for mobile developers. In this post, we will look at exactly what those tools are composed […]
As you may know, if you want to publish on MacOS or on any iOS devices, you need to use an Apple computer. This can represent a rather large expense to many Indie developers ( no, I am not going to get into the ancient Mac price war argument! ). What if you want […]
So exactly how far can a 10$ application take you? The answer is, surprisingly far! In this guided tour/review we are looking at Adobe’s recently released Photoshop Touch. EDIT: 2/17/2012 – Major changes since release have removed many of the negative points in this review, be sure to check here for […]
Right off the hop when you load Photoshop touch, you will be brought to this screen: This is where you manage existing projects, organize, share and delete your files. The sharing aspect we will get to a bit later. The absence of a menu key is a bit […]
Now lets take a quick look at the tools available in Photoshop touch. Obviously the tool bar is the ideal place to start. It is fairly sparse but at the same time is the essence of Photoshop and I rather appreciate the streamlined nature. Here is a graphic of […]
OK “Actions” may be a bad choice of words, but I never came up with a better name and as you will see shortly, there are some items here that would probably make more sense to be in the tools section. Just like the tools menu, the Actions menu can be minimized by […]
Layers in PS Touch are much more streamlined than in desktop Photoshop. First off, there is a fixed limit of 16 layers, which while manageable can be a bit of a pain. Given the constrained resources of the devices it is operating on, it seems like a reasonable enough limitation. The layer interface […]
