I finally joined the 21st century after buying a smartphone, an iPhone 5. (Woo I guess?) Anyway. One of the only interesting things that changed with the iPhone 5 was the CPU. It’s supposed to be much faster and uses an new instruction set with extra registers for the NEON vector unit. I was …

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It has been a few months since Chipmunk 6.0.3 was released! We’ve had a lot of contracting work to distract us from core Chipmunk development lately. Even so, we’ve been cooking up some new features and now I’m currently working full time putting the final touches on 6.1. So …

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I don’t know how it happened, but Solaro has 37 custom shaders in the project!

We’ve got a lot of variety in our shaders; some are full screen effects, many of them are for special UI effects or weapon effects, and we’ve also got special shaders for weapon and shield effects. So …

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Announcing the sequel to the critically acclaimed game ScribBall:

ScribBall 2: Redrawn will feature the same addictive game play from ScribBall and much more. It has been completely rewritten and now includes:

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I came across a blog post today sharing more iPhone sales data and talking about what we’ve referred to as “the race to the bottom” price war on the App Store. Andy Finnell looks at some of the numbers and the viability of making a living off iPhone applications. 

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One issue we have been running into as part time developers is that we don’t always have the time to build the tools that we’d like in order to build our games. Level editors in particular can be tricky if your game needs a non-trivial one where you can’t just define levels in …

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A lot of developers have been publishing their sales information, and we’ve found it very helpful to get that information. We’re showing both the desktop version of ScribBall and the iPhone version. In blue, we’ve plotted the number of website hits as well, just for fun. …

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