Game Dev
11 Random ShiVa Projects
I needed to free up some disk space so I started going through my project folder of about 85 projects. I’ll be the first to say that I make a lot of junk and most […]
ShiVa
ShiVa
Using STK Packs in ShiVa
Most ShiVa games have a single STK pack file. The reason why is because it’s easy to hit the export button and dump everything into one giant file when you publish. On many PC platforms like Desura and Steam, […]
ShiVa
ShiVa Localization
As we are nearing our first Steam release, we wanted to make a strong effort to localize our game in as many different languages as possible. This brought up an interesting problem involving workflow and […]
ShiVa
Quicksort for ShiVa3D
If you ever need to sort a table of numbers in shiva, I adapted this Rosetta Code entry for shiva. — Adapted from http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithms/Quicksort#Lua function quicksort (t, start, endi) start = start or 0 endi = […]
ShiVa
3D Platformer Character Animation Notes
We made a 3D platformer with a constrained 2D view not long ago, obviously in our engine of choice, ShiVa. The main character fired a number of different ranged weapons and generally made a huge […]
Android
Obfuscating ShiVa Games with Proguard
If you are worried about people hacking your ShiVa based game then obfuscation is a good place to start. Obfuscation is very simple to implement in your Android project and is a good starting point […]
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 […]
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
Android
Introducing ShiVa Android All In One (AAIO)
What is this? This is an open source project that I’ve started to help ShiVa developers get the latest/greatest Android SDK implementations. The goal for this project is to be a single Android project that […]
ShiVa
ShiVa3D Flexible Keyboard/Joystick Input Architecture
There are a couple different ways to do keyboard and joystick handling in ShiVa. This article explores a unique method whose merits will be compared against the traditional method. Here is the traditional way of […]