January 15, 2013
by Chris
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I’d hoped to get this up before Christmas but along with the rest of the UK I spent a large portion of the festive holidays feeling a tad under the weather. There’s been a link to the preview copy of … Continue reading
October 1, 2012
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I needed to grab some text from a PDF for further processing and preferring CLI to GUI I thought I’d look for something that would work with my favourite tool of choice Python. Tried the following first; pyPDF – Output … Continue reading
July 5, 2012
by Chris
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Three years ago there was a dearth of tools for cocos2d development. It’s a lot better now. This is not a comprehensive list of all the tools out there but covers the ones I’ve tried and found useful. If you’re … Continue reading
June 22, 2012
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A great explanation in animated form of the reasoning behind using a Spritesheet from the creator of TexturePacker Andreas Loew @codeAndWeb. SpriteSheets – TheMovie – Part 1 by Code’n’Web Consider this the Episode IV of Spritesheet movies
March 14, 2012
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For anyone who has to occasionally schedule a meeting or phone call across time zones TimeScroller is a great little widget and it’s free! It defaults to the current time but a great feature is the slider at the bottom … Continue reading
March 4, 2012
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Quick test using the Infra red marker I built yesterday, looking forward to trying this out with a projector and a desktop version of Sketchshare. My kids are going to love this
March 3, 2012
by Chris
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I spent some time a couple of years ago playing with Johnny Chungs idea for a wii remote driven interactive whiteboard. I didn’t have a projector so I used the screen from my 24″ iMac and I cobbled together an … Continue reading
February 23, 2012
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Quick (and not too pretty) python script I threw together for generating animation frame plists. For a tutorial about using the plist to drive your cocos2d animation check out this great tutorial from Ray Wenderlich’s site. I had a list … Continue reading
January 16, 2012
by Chris
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Sketchshare has had some fantastic feedback from Beta – many thanks to those of you who are helping out! we’re working through all your comments and hope that you’ll appreciate the results. We’ve had quite a bit of interest in … Continue reading
November 19, 2011
by Chris
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After last weeks news from Adobe I’m happy I held back on upgrading from Flash CS3. Flash though is still a valuable tool in the development process allowing the quick prototyping of game mechanics. What I’ve ended up doing on … Continue reading