For some time now I’ve been building HTML5 apps for Windows 8. I had previously done work in C# and XAML (Spell and Speak, Pizong, and two Unity games), but prefer HTML5 and JavaScript for a number of reasons. First and foremost, it allows me to build apps for multiple platforms while only having to…
For the last two weeks or so I’ve been working out bugs in Super Rawr-Type and integrating touch controls for the Windows 8 port. This is the first time I’ve ever created touch controls, so it took a bit to understand how they work, specifically with toggling the joystick for movement and stationary buttons for shooting, switching weapons, and…
For the past two weeks I’ve been trying to perfect object pooling with ImpactJS in order to increase performance for my Win8 port of Super Rawr-Type. You can find the latest (working) Win8 build of Super Rawr-Type on my GitHub. I finally created a version of object pooling for my bullets and enemy bullets which…
My code for object pooling is now working 100%! It took me about one week to get it straight, but after taking quite a bit of time to really learn the concept of pooling in-and-out, as well as some of the less frequently used functions offered by arrays (at least, not frequently used by myself),…
When building my Win8 port of Super Rawr-Type, I ran into all sorts of performance issues, due to lack of optimization. This was to be expected, as I on gave myself 1 month to complete the base game, then I would take the second and final month to port it to different platforms and worry…
[UPDATE] Clarified that I have two classes for my bullet. One which uses pooling, and another that does not use pooling. So my object pooling optimizations don’t seem to be working. I thought I would have seen some improvements in terms of my performance, but I’m just not seeing it. I think one issue is…
This past weekend I finished the web version of my shooter, Super Rawr-Type, and began porting it to Windows 8. Much of Jesse Freeman’s Win8 starter kit work came in very handy here, and I would have been completely lost without it. The web version plays fine, although it does have some slight hiccups from…
So I’m quickly progressing in my newest game, Super Rawr-Type and am just about to put the finishing touches on it. I’ve given myself one month (30 days) to work on this bad boy. GDC and PAX took up quite a bit of time recently, so I’ve got a few days left to go. It’s far…
Recently, I’ve been dabbling in various gaming frameworks and learning new languages as a means to understand the pros and cons of each. Along the way I felt it was necessary to document my findings, in hopes that it’ll prove useful for other aspiring game developers out there as well. Last month Microsoft began hosting the New…
The most difficult part of this project thus far has been understanding the idea behind MVVM, or Model-View-View Model. Wikipedia defines it as: “MVVM facilitates a clear separation of the development of the graphical user interface (either as markup language or GUI code) from the development of the business logic or back end logic known as the model (also known as the data…