Tonight I read an article about the difference between hackers and coders. The author told a story on how a team surpasses the others by hacking the ideas and building prototypes. The hacking mindset can also apply to game designing too. There are many, many articles showing how to do game prototyping in board, paper [...]
We are going to post a series of tutorials on how to build games with latest HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. We will also cover the CoffeeScript that provides an elegant way to code JavaScript. These tutorials will help you to build a playable HTML5 games from scratch. Meanwhile, please take a look at our new [...]
Today I read a post by RUBEN about how we should stay motivated and focus on our product to get it launch. Realize you’re going to screw up. You’ll procrastinate, slack off, and miss deadlines. You know what? It’s ok. Just keep moving forward like it never happened. Be relentless; don’t let a bad day [...]
This is another post about Pixelwave, the new iOS game development engine that uses API that similar to Flash ActionScript 3. We have another post about caching texture data in Pixelwave. Ok. Let’s get to the content. The original PXSprite template The PXSprite is a display object similar to Flash Sprite (or MovieClip) that is [...]
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First of all, thanks Pixelwave community for providing the great iOS game framework with ActionScript 3 similar API. It is very easy to get the texture data from a given file name into the game with Pixelwave framework. However, the framework load the image data from file each time we call the above code. This [...]
Sneak Out! first release comes with 15 levels. These 15 levels are well designed and divided the difficulty into 5-5-5 levels. The first 5 levels is easy. The second 5 levels is moderate. And the last 5 levels is difficult. Moreover, The level 1-5 and level 1-10 is a special levels that the stage design [...]
We have made this game for 4 months and now it is time to debut the Sneak Out! game. It is an office escaping game that you have to save yourself and your friend from over-time work. We design this game to trigger several emotions when playing the game. These emotions then drive the player [...]
We use Adobe Flash to create graphics and JSFL script to export the assets into our iOS games during development. There is an issue in Flash CS5 when calling the document.exportPNG API. When calling the following command to use the default export setting by feeding the 2nd arguments to true, Flash rejects to run the [...]
When using the Git version control system, we create a lot of branches. There are already tons of shell profile script to show you which branch you are. I go a step further by showing the git status also. Moreover, I used emotional face icon to represent different states. For example, v-.-v is a clean [...]
This week, I’d like to share a quote from Rob Walling, the author of Start Small, Stay Small. Work hard and play hard, but never do both at once. This book is inspirational for developers who want to start up their business and become entrepreneur.