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New SDL_mixer Announced

Carlos Camacho — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:59:57 +0000

SDL_mixer is a cross-platform sample multi-channel audio mixer library. It supports any number of simultaneously playing channels of 16 bit stereo audio, plus a single channel of music, mixed by the popular MikMod MOD, Timidity MIDI, Ogg Vorbis, and SMPEG MP3 libraries. This release features the following improvements: Added Mix_Init()/Mix_Quit() to prevent constantly loading and unloading [...]

iPhone App Recommendation Service Apptizr Invites

Carlos Camacho — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:30:30 +0000

Apptizr is a new personalized iPhone app recommendations service that just launched in private alpha. Apptizr captures individual user’s interests to make personal app recommendations. Users can receive app recommendations both on the Apptizr website and via a weekly email. As a special treat, we have secured 50 invites for iDevGames readers to be able [...]

GameSalad Introduces $99 iPhone Game Publishing

Carlos Camacho — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:58:18 +0000

Gendai Games has announced the introduction of the Game Salad Membership Program and the conclusion of the iPhone Early Access Beta Program. Members of the GameSalad Membership Program now have the ability to publish their GameSalad-made games to the iPhone at the cost of only $99 per year for an Express membership. The GameSalad Membership [...]

3D Game Creation App Unity3D 2.6 Now Free

Lincoln Green — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:54:42 +0000

Unity Technologies, the developers of the Unity game engine, have announced that they are releasing the indie version of the game engine for free. Today at the Unite Conference, Unity Technologies, the leading provider of the multi-platform game development platform for Web, PC, Mac, Wii and iPhone, announced that version 2.6 of its Unity Platform is [...]

FutureBASIC Now Free – FBtoC Available

Carlos Camacho — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:41:17 +0000

Starting life as ZBasic, FutureBASIC has had a loyal following on the Mac since Chris Stasny took over under Staz Software. We’ve reviewed FutureBASIC in the past, and even received some entries into uDevGames made with this IDE. In August 2005, Staz Software was severely hit by Hurricane Katrina and with advancements in Mac OS [...]

SDL 1.2 Released – Now Builds for Mac OS X 10.6

Carlos Camacho — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:57:31 +0000

SDL is a free cross-platform multi-media development API. SDL version 1.2 now builds on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Eric Wing posted a good rundown on the numerous changes. This release is intended to clean up the bug list for SDL 1.2 and lets the developers focus on new development for SDL 1.3! General [...]

Screen Capturing with Screenflick

Joe Flores — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:00:29 +0000

Basic Screen Capturing Screenflick is a handy screen capture utility with a wide array of options for capture size, export type, frame rate and keyboard or mouse event display. This wide array of features makes it absolutely perfect for an indie game developer, allowing you to quickly and simply make gameplay videos [...]

Unite 2009 Unity3D Conference

Lincoln Green — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:22:23 +0000

Registration for Unite 2009, the third annual Unity Developer Conference, is now open to the public. This year’s conference, running October 28 – 30, will be held at Fort Mason, San Francisco. Once again it’s time for developers, artists, publishers and anyone else interested to come together for a few days to learn more about Unity [...]

Cheetah3D 5.0 Released

Lincoln Green — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:29:45 +0000

Cheetah3D 5.0, released today, builds on previous releases of the native OS X 3D software by adding an all new node based material system, better multi-threading, a large library of included materials, and many other tools and UI tweaks. Cheetah3D 5.0 was released today. Version 5.0 adds a completely new node based material system which allows [...]

Mac OS X System Monitor and Process Explorer Tool for Developers

Carlos Camacho — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:15:49 +0000

atMonitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Mac OS X that displays system activity in real-time. It is designed to allow quick assessment of computer’s state, but it is powerful enough to make it a core utility in any developer’s system troubleshooting toolkit. atMonitor offers a better alternative to Apple’s own “Activity Monitor” and combines [...]