Archive for March, 2008

This blog is moving

March 25, 2008

This blog will be discontinued here at wordpress and will be moved to blogger, so please update your feed to:
http://www.gamedevjuice.blogspot.com/
Cheers.
Martin.

GotAPI.com

March 20, 2008

www.gotapi.com
I wanted to share this incredibly useful web site. No matter in what language you program this site is the equivalent to a Victorinox Swiss army pocket knife for a programmer. GotApi is a web language reference for a lot of languages and APIs. This is the supported stuff:

HTML / CSS / JavaScript
HTML at [...]

BitmapMovieClip

March 7, 2008

In some cases in a project, we need to use striped sprites, it means an an animation of bitmaps which has their frames arranged in rows or columns like the examples below:

Sometimes the output of some graphic tools are this kind of sprite, for example this explosion generator: http://www.geocities.com/starlinesinc Actionscript do not brings anything built-in [...]

Got DS

March 3, 2008

Finally after a long wait I got a Nintedo DS.

I also bought a R4, so after a long season of gaming I will start to diving into the nuts and bolts of DS game programming.