71² - The ramblings of two 30-something developers

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 [...]

Glyph Designer 1.5 – Released

mike — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:15:03 +0000

This evening we have released Glyph Designer 1.5. This release see’s some frequently requested features added to Glyph Designer. Glyph Padding This allows padding to be applied around each glyph image on the texture atlas being produced. This now means that it’s much easier for the texture atlas to be edited externally from Glyph Designer [...]

Ayopa Games

mike — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:52:30 +0000

My friends over at the newly launched Ayopa Games have published their first two games, Chicken Rescue and W.E.L.D.E.R. Johnny and Elliott who run Ayopa Games have years of industry experience each let alone between them. I spent some time with them when I was last in San Francisco and the plans they have plus [...]

VTM Sneak Peak 2

mike — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:36:30 +0000

I’ve put up another video showing the latest version of the game prototype I’ll be using as VTM on 12/13 November in Boston. This shows the 3D particle emitter I’ve implemented which I’m using for sparks on the hull of the ships as they are hit by gun fire, the ship explosions and the plasma [...]

VTM Sneak Peak

mike — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:21:55 +0000

Just wanted to post a small video that shows the game I’m going to be talking about at VTM in November. The video is a little shaky as I was trying to video while swinging the iPad around (it uses the gyro for input). Once the conference is out of the way the new tutorials [...]

Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011

mike — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:00:59 +0000