How To Make A Spectrum Retro-Gaming Canvas Print
I was inspired recently by a post by GAME Telford of a canvas print of the Jet Set Willy code sheet.
I though it was a cool idea and wouldn't it be great to do something similar. Some time later I saw a post (now lost) about Spectrum cassette inlays.
Aha, I thought. Perfect! So here it is the canvas print I made from the casette inlay images from my favourite spectrum games.
Writing Mobile Games for Fun! (and Profit?)
Two years ago Troy and I were chatting about Flappy Bird.
Logger Bill - A Tour of the Tree (Part 3 - Fire OS Support)
Reasoning
One of the Issues with using the Google Play Games Services is that it requires the Google Play Games app be installed on the users device and that is only available on Google Play.
If you want to support Amazon Kindle Fire devices then you can't use Google Play. You could of course detect the presence of Google Play and just disable those features but I wanted to provide an alternative for Amazon users.
Read more: Logger Bill - A Tour of the Tree (Part 3 - Fire OS Support)
A Flight Simulator in LibGDX?
So we've pretty much established that LibGDX is an awesome framework for 2d games... The Shaft and LoggerBill are both basic 2d games and so is our up coming puzzle game that we hope to release soon... But just how does LibGDX fare as a 3d game development framework? I've been wondering that. So, as a side project during 3 days of my Christmas vacation I decided to dive in and try to write a 3d landscape graphics engine for a flight simulator... To see if it could be done. There are some Android flight simulators out there, but I think they're all done in C++. Can LibGDX handle it?
Maybe... Yes!
Logger Bill - A Tour of the Tree (Part 2 - Support Classes)
Troy and I have tried to make as much of the code base generic as possible in order to re-use it in subsequent games.
This is evident in the design of the managers and other "support" classes and interfaces:
- ProfileManager
- AchievementManager
- LeaderboardManager
- Achievement
- Leaderboard
- Ads
- CloudSave
- GPG
- Tweeter
- Emailer
Read more: Logger Bill - A Tour of the Tree (Part 2 - Support Classes)