Objectives Install everything needed to build and run Cocos2d-X 3.x beta samples on an Android 4.3 device Uses only the command line, (NOT using eclipse at all). Prerequisites Some game programming knowledge Windows 7 PC Android device with Android 4.3 (if not, either use the emulator or download the necessary SDKs and modify the tutorial […]
I was at Game Developers Conference (GDC) Taipei Summit 2013 recently and made some notes from attending various lectures and meetings there. Maybe it would be interesting to some other people as well, so I thought I’d write them down here. Its more focused on the regional gaming situation then technical topics. Feel free to […]
This bug came back to bite my teammates today even though I resolved it some time ago. Because its quite an interesting bug, I felt resolved to write it down. There is this particular well known middleware library that we use, and it came in a few modules which are packaged as static libs each. […]
Mobile Atlas Creator is an awesome tool for generating offline maps for mapping applications, such as the equally awesome RMaps for Android. Unfortunately, due to restrictions from many map providers, Mobile Atlas Creator no longer provides access to many map sources. However, it is able to read user-customised map sources. So with the help of […]
In OS X, I’m so not used to having to send files to Trash first before emptying it, just to get rid of files I no longer want. In the end, I created an Automator service that does the job for me. (File download at the bottom of this post) How To Use 1. Select […]
These are just 2 differences that I’ve encountered recently, and I’m sure there’ll be more to come. Points to note when doing cross-platform coding. Signed-ness of char type char type is signed in iOS, but unsigned in Android NDK. For the latter, I’ve just discovered this post, which suggests that its an ARM code generation […]
Sometimes we have to run release mode code, either because it is what we’re testing, or it just takes too long to run the program in debug mode (I had one level which took > 15 mins to load up in debug mode, and that’s without the debugger attached!). While solving bugs in this case, […]
Actionscript 3 has a rather useful TransitionManager class to provide transition effects to movie clips. It provides a convenient function static TransitionManager.start() that we can use for adding effects (e.g. blinds, fly, zoom, etc). Whats missing from the documentation though is that the class that the effect is being applied on must be declared a […]
I’ve finally gotten my OpenGL ES code to cross compile and run on both iOS and Android. Have learned lots of things in the process. It’s still an extremely primitive “spinning cube” code, so there’s still heaps more work to be done, but at least most of it should be platform-neutral. iOS (left), Android (right) […]
Wanted to download JDK for Mac to run Eclipse, but couldn’t find it on Java’s download page. When searching around and finally went to the Apple developer site to find this info. It works right out of the box. Sweet!