71² - iOS & Mac Developer

Glyph Designer 1.6.0

mike — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:27:26 +0000

While we are still working hard on Glyph Designer 2.0, we are also working on keeping Glyph Designer 1.x up-to-date. The last set of changes has seen us port some of the performance enhancements we are building in GD 2.0 into 1.x. This has allowed us to speed up the render pipeline so that style [...]

Project Workflow and Organization

Tom — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:31:12 +0000

Introduction Xcode Version: 4.3.3 (build 4E3002) Durning this article I will be focusing on a few of our own developments and what we have learnt over the past few years. There are many articles on different aspects of application development so I wanted to try and give you a high level picture of all the pieces [...]

Glyph Designer + Retina MBP

mike — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:44:44 +0000

We have identified a problem with Glyph Designer on the new Retina MacBook Pro which causes the glyphs to not appear on the texture or preview views. We are working on a fix for this but there is a temporary solution that will allow you to continue using Glyph Designer on these machines. Pulling up [...]

Particle Designer 1.3.6

mike — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:31:38 +0000

Particle Designer 1.3.6 was released today. This is a very small update that moves the Randomize button in the GUI away from the play/pause button. This was not out best design moment and could catch people out. The GUI is being thrown away for PD 2.0 and we will put design decisions like that behind [...]

Particle Designer 1.3.5

mike — Tue, 29 May 2012 13:21:00 +0000

Today we have released a small maintenance release for Particle Designer. The contents of this release are: Retina support has been added so that it’s now possbile to select both the standard and retina resolutions within the device window More fixes around saving. When saving the particle texture filename should now be used as the [...]

Glyph Designer 1.5.4

mike — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:08:36 +0000

Today we released a small maintenance release for Glyph Designer. The fixes in this release are: Fixed a rare bug that caused a crash on startup when trying to load some fonts Fixed an issue that caused the xOffset value to be incorrect on some fonts. Most noticable on the space character where the xOffset [...]

71Squared Development Tools

mike — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:37:04 +0000

Glyph Designer Particle Designer

3D Tech Demo Source Released

mike — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:52:47 +0000

I’ve finally published the project I wrote for my VTM conference talk in Boston last November (2011). This project is iOS 5 specific and uses GLKit for all the rendering and math. It also implements a version of our Particle engine enhanced to work in 3D which is really cool. It uses bill boarded images [...]

So…what’s 71Squared up to?

mike — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:52:29 +0000

That’s a good question :o) Last year proved to be a great year for Particle and Glyph Designer. Both apps have continued to be popular with game developers using either their own engines or frameworks such as Cocos2D, Sparrow, Unity or Corona. We pushed out some release for both apps to remove bugs that appear [...]

Readers Games

mike — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:16:24 +0000

I’ve been delinquent recently in updating the blog with readers games. I’ve recently had emails about games that have been created by blog readers and our tool users and I wanted to post about them so everyone can see the amazing work being done by indie developers. If you have sent in info about your [...]