Flax Project

Flax Project San Francisco trip to Game Closure

Ciarán McCann — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:04:34 +0000

So here’s the story about how Carl and I, ended up in Silicon Valley for 3 weeks last month, at a start-up games company in the valley. Game Closure is a start up HTML5 games company based in Palo Alto, San Francisco. They are developing a JavaScript game SDK which runs on mobile, tablet, [...]

Catch up with the Flax Project – Busy times!

Ciarán McCann — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:35:16 +0000

Hey everyone, so it’s been nearly 5 weeks since we last posted. It’s been a crazy 5 weeks and it’s not over just yet. Unfortunately we have neglected to post on the site. So here is a catch up on what myself and Carl have been up to over the last few weeks. What have we [...]

Flax HTML5 Game Engine Development Diary Part 11

Ciarán McCann — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:20:56 +0000

Well it’s that time again, it’s been just about three weeks since the first iteration of the Flax HTML5 Game Engine 0.1 and as promised we have tried really hard to stick to our time-boxed release system and putting the Agile practices that we learned about in software engineering on our college course at IT Carlow [...]

WP7 Game “Astro Bacon”

Keith Cully — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:01:14 +0000

Ever wanted to fling asteroids at space pigs? Well, thanks to Astro Bacon, now you can! Hi all, I’m back and I’ve got a shiny new game to announce. Astro Bacon is a side-scrolling space shooter for windows phone 7 which I have been working on since the end of Summer. The game is [...]

WP7 Game Development : A Beginners Guide (XML Specified Content)

Keith Cully — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:17:05 +0000

Hello again. I am here today to talk about setting up objects in XNA using data read from .XML files. There are a number of ways to achieve this. One of the most popular is to use the built in XML serializer. I will be talking about this in one of my next articles. Today [...]

Dublin GTUG – Hackerspaces and the formal education system

Ciarán McCann — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:35:30 +0000

Last tuesday night myself and Carl headed up to Dublin for a few meetings, and also got to drop into Google European HQ for the Dublin Google Technologies User Group event. Arriving a little late we got into the start of the talk by Google Dev Advocate, Martin Omander about the new Google Prediction and [...]