Tiny Wings – Readers Games

I’m hoping everyone has already seen the game Tiny Wings. This is an incredible little game that has turned a very simple yet ingenious mechanic into a great looking and highly addictive game.
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Icons App Review

I’m sure like me many of you have needed to create icons for your desktop of iOS based apps. While it’s not hard to create the necessary icons it can be time consuming when you need to generate all the different sizes to support both retina and non-retina displays.

This is where the Icons app comes in. Developed by Chris Fletcher this app allows you to very quickly and easily take your large detailed 512×512 icon artwork and turn it into icons for use in iOS Apps, Mac Apps and iTunes.
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New Readers Games

I’ve got another batch of readers games to post. I’ve not had enough time, but I wanted to get them listed so that people can give them a try and support the developers that have been working hard on them.
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Perfect Glyph Designer companion

I hope everyone who has grabbed a copy of Glyph Designer is enjoying it. It’s been getting some great press and feedback and we truly believe it will help improve and simplify the work flow for any developer wanting to implement great looking text into their game.

After the release of Glyph Designer I had a twitter message about another tool, which in my opinion is an excellent companion to Glyph Designer.
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Readers Game – Elementals HD

Elementals HD

It’s been a while since the last readers game was mentioned, so I’m pleased to announce the release of Elementals by Chris Fletcher of Empoc Media. This is a fast paced physics based strategy/puzzle game that has kept me busy for too many hours :o)
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Glyph Designer – NOW AVAILABLE

We are still waiting for Apple to approve Glyph Designer, so we have taken the decision to offer it directly through the http://glyphdesigner.71squared.com as well as the app store.

The Glyph Designer website is NOW LIVE and you can download a trial and purchase a Glyph Designer license. The price is $29.99 and we hope that you enjoy using it as much as we do.

Be sure to let us know what you think and of any suggestions using the Glyph Designer forums found here.

Thanks for your support

Mike & Tom

Glyph Designer Submitted

So tonight is the night. After weeks of coding, bug fixing, testing, more bug fixing, polishing and then a little bug fixing just for the hell of it, Glyph Designer is being submitted to the Mac App store.
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Latest Sound Manager

I’ve been asked a few times recently for the latest sound manager code, so I’m posting the latest version of the SoundManager class that was used in my game SLQTSOR.

This version contains all the fixes that have been discussed in the Sound Manager Tutorials comments and was the version featured in “Learning iOS Game Programming”.
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Happy New Year

Hi everyone and Happy New year.

I don’t honestly know where 2010 went, it seemed to have only just started and then it was over. I know for me that 2010 was a crazy year with the day job and getting the book finished. I got so much done and yet so much didn’t get done.
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CrashPool

This may come in useful for you iOS developer types :)

https://crashpool.com/

Thanks to @tonyarnold for the heads up.


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About the authors

John is a Web Developer working in Perth, Australia for Bouncing Orange - graphic + web design.

Mike works for Vindicia, the leading subscription and payment management solution for digital merchants.

They both love technology, especially Apple.