I decided to create an updated infographic style for Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth. It’s early days, but this is[…]
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Developing a Data-Oriented Game Engine (Part 1)
Preface This post is based on my Bachelor’s thesis at the University of Huddersfield. It was written in May 2014[…]
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Slider Menu Widget v2 for Titanium Alloy
There has been an incredible amount of buzz around my iOS Slider Menu Widget for Titanium Alloy. So it’s about[…]
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Education in Third World countries through Technology
A 14 year old built an electricity generator from scratch by reading a physics book from a library, producing irrigation[…]
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Building Ogre 3D for Android on Mac OSX
Prerequisites Download and install CMake: http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html Download the latest dependencies package AndroidDependencies_[Date].zip: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ogre/files/ogre-dependencies-android/1.9/ Clone the Ogre v1-9 branch with the[…]
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iOS Slider Menu Widget for Titanium Alloy
UPDATE: Slider Menu Widget v2 A fairly recent design pattern has emerged on iOS in the form of a slider[…]
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Evolution of Mobile Games
One looming question for mobile gaming is, where do we go from here? Here’s my perspective on the possible evolution[…]
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Texture Atlases for UIKit with TexturePacker
I use UIKit for my UI, but one issue I was facing is the sheer number of separate image files[…]
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Building boost 1.49 with clang++, iOS 5.1 and Xcode 4.3
UPDATE: For the latest boost and iOS 6, clone this repo instead, it should “just work”: https://gitorious.org/~galbraithjoseph/boostoniphone/galbraithjosephs-boostoniphone Thanks Galbraith! First[…]
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Game Engine Lessons Learned – Put Performance First
After a 2 year stint of developing a fully featured game engine, I can now look back on what went[…]
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Building Ogre 3D on OSX
Note: This guide is now outdated, however the overall process remains similar, so you can still follow it roughly. Click[…]
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Making a Successful Game in 32 Hours
Blind Panic is an annual competition held at Huddersfield University. You can check out a summary of the event along[…]
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Create Your Own Racetrack with Blender 2.49
Introduction I have finally revived the popular racetrack tutorial I wrote in 2006, as featured on Blender Nation. This tutorial[…]
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Inheritance-Based Sprite Management for XNA 4.0
My team recently won Best Game Award – 1st Prize at a “make a game in 32 hours” competition, and[…]
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Imagination Potential
Look at an object on a table. Imagine it positioned on another part of the table. Now physically move the[…]
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