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We are happy to announce the fifth coordinated release of the cocos2d family. We are releasing: cocos2d-x v2.1.4 cocos2d-html5 v2.1.4 cocos2d-iphone v2.1 CocosBuilder v3.0-alpha5 Our goal is to provide a complete toolchain for developing multi-platform games both for Web and … Continue reading →

Valve has made its Steamworks SDK and accompanying documentation available to developers, as the company looks to broaden access to its Steamworks features. …

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Gas Guzzlers: Combat Carnage is a combat racer with machine guns and rocket launchers in which you drive speedily around and cause explosions either in single player or multiplayer mode (LAN or internet). Beside normal racing action (reach finish line asap) there is also a deathmatch mode which offers FPS arena action (with cars). I […]

We’ve mentioned before various libraries to serve as audio engines for your app, but here’s a new one which does look, indeed, amazing:




No, that’s really not an exaggeration at all:

Effortless creation of live audio content with objects, blocks, or Audio Units and looping audio file players.
Automatic mixing of multiple audio signals with per-channel volume and pan controls.
Built-in support for audio filtering and effects, with support for Audio Units, blocks …

Playing the classics isn’t always about nostalgia — often, they have forgotten game design that can be utilized even today. Developer Steve Fulton outlines his favorites (with video!). …

MasteringCoronaSDK.com has put together a free crash course on Corona SDK game development. During the course, which is aimed at new developers with little code experience and those who would like to learn a new game dev framework, readers will learn how to use the Corona SDK handles animation, audio, and player input/touch events on mobile devices.

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While languages like Java and C++ allow you to define multiple functions with the same name but different arguments, this feature has been absent from C.

However, using recent versions of Clang you can now rectify this behavior and since Objective-C is a superset of C, knowing how to use this feature can be useful even if you rarely venture outside of Cocoa or Cocoa Touch.

This is a list of useful resources to help you refine, define, execute and possibly reconsider your decision to enter mobile game development this year. The resources a little more inclined to the business and game design parts of game development, except for a couple of ones linking other lists.

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This looks like a nifty tool for your App Store SEO efforts:

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Update [2012-11-13]: I’m pleased to announce that cocos3d 0.7.2 has been released. This release adds heterogeneous 3D mesh particles, enhanced UIViewController integration, ray-casting enhancements, simplified parametric vertex array allocation and management, performance and memory usage improvements, enhanced logging, and detailed GL error tracing. Features added in this 0.7.2 release include: Added mesh particles as a type […]