ShiVa
ShiVa 1.9.2 New API Calls
With the newly released ShiVa 1.9.2 Game Engine came a bunch of new API calls. Not all of these calls have been documented, until now! Head over to my github repo for a comprehensive list of […]
Year: 2013
Android
Stormtrooper’s Guide to Droid JTAG’ing
TOP SECRET EMPIRE PERSONNEL ONLY You’ve done it! You’ve finally found the droids you were looking for. But hey, wait a minute, they don’t even power on?!? How are you supposed to re-purpose them for […]
Game Dev
Make Your Ouya Games Run at 60 FPS with This Sneaky Trick!
I’ve been playing around in perfHUD ES a lot lately profiling OUYA performance. One of the cool features it provides is the ability to look at and replace shaders on the fly. I thought this […]
Game Dev
Profiling OUYA (Tegra 3) Games using Nvidia PerfHUD ES
PerfHUD ES has a good online manual that I’m not trying to replicate. The manual explains the UI, graphs and knobs. The purpose of this article is to introduce the tool to people that aren’t aware […]
Game Dev
Platformer Physics 101 and The 3 Fundamental Equations of Platformers
There are tons of tutorials out there on doing platformer physics and implementing various types of platformers. What there seems to be lacking is a tutorial on how to choose good values for your platformer […]
ShiVa
ShiVa3D HUD Interpolators Test
A simple app to view all of the HUD Interpolators for the ShiVa HUD system, i.e. the constants: hud.kInterpolatorTypeLinear