After a period of little activity (moving house + renovations), I have finally got back to game development in my spare time. I decided to take a look at Unity, and Jumper is the result of my “first go” using this framework. This is my “August” entry for One Game a Month (1GAM)! You can … Read more
Unity is an entire ecosystem based around game development. I have known about it for quite some time, but until recently have not really had a good look at it. After downloading and installing the free version of Unity (free, with a slightly limited feature set), I must say that I am very impressed. Everything you … Read more
My February entry for the one game a month challenge (#1GAM) this year is now ready – I have just finished verifying and uploading it to Apple for review! A few days late into March now, but this has meant I have had time to get it nicely polished, and added a bunch of extra … Read more
After recently receiving a review copy of “Creating Games with cocos2d for iPhone 2”, I have been dedicating a bit of time in the evenings to read through this book, which covers game development by example in my favourite 2d games engine, cocos2d for the iPhone. Disclaimer: I did receive a free review copy of … Read more
In keeping to my attempt at the one game a month challenge, here is “Zombie Contacts”, my January submission. The game is free and is ad-supported. Just a bit of zombie destruction fun. Download Zombie Contacts for your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch here In Zombie Contacts you defend against a horde of zombies generated … Read more
I am running a little behind as it is already February, and my first game of the year (part of the 1 game a month challenge I am trying to keep to this year) is not yet ready. I managed to put a little bit of work into this evening though, and have got my … Read more
I am very excited to get this update I have been working on out the door, and Cosmosis re-published to the Apple appstore. In the lead up to this, I thought that the current music and SFX in the game could do with an update. So here it is – the first unique sound track … Read more
I was pointed towards MonoGame 3.0 this week by a colleague (thanks Paul!), and so this morning I thought I would give it a go. I found it very tricky to get it up and running for iOS development (there are installers for the other platforms like Windows, Linux, but not for iOS/Mac). After a … Read more
This is a quick update on progress of my “update” to Cosmosis. I have got a fair amount done, but find myself falling into the trap I got myself into when I first developed Cosmosis – the “just one more feature” syndrome! I am going to be a lot stricter this time around, and won’t … Read more
So I have been working on an update to my iOS game, Cosmosis. One of the new features I am adding (partly due to me having to remove the old OpenFeint framework, is a tweet button on the game over scene. There are actually many different choices, from the Twitter framework available in iOS 5 … Read more