My second weekly newsletter is out

Gaming: The Game Boy Legacy: A 25th anniversary celebration – USGamer Cost Breakdown and Sales Numbers for Shovel Knight – Gamasutra What does it really cost to open an indie studio? All your money, most of your life – Polygon Fee To Play – Valve’s Dota & Pro gaming documentary This fan-made Majora’s Mask remake…

Philadelphia Unity Game Dev Meetup

I recently put together a new meetup for Unity game developers in Philadelphia. This will likely be held at City CoHo Philly Nexus, 2401 Walnut St., Suite 102, Philadelphia, PA (map), and on Monday evenings. The location is ideal, as Drexel University and UPenn are right down the block, and public transit is close by. You can…

Apache Cordova integrated in Visual Studio for Multi-Device Hybrid App development

I’ve been pushing HTML5 cross platform applications for some time now. I frequently give talks on how to use tools like Telerik’s App Builder, Adobe’s PhoneGap Cloud, and my personal favorite, Intel’s XDK. You can find my open sourced Cordova app here. Previously, Cordova was a cumbersome command line tool for building cross platform HTML5…

Professional Game Development Tools

This post is part of 3 week series giving current and aspiring game devs the tools, resources, and advice they need to get started building for Windows. We also have a great video course on game production basics at Microsoft Virtual Academy.   Visual Studio Community Edition  You need an IDE, or Integrated Development Environment,…

Getting started with Unity

I frequently give talks on how to get started with Unity, especially to schools in the Philadelphia area. I understand that it can be overwhelming to begin, especially if you are new to programming, so I thought I’d get you started with a few resources. Also take a look at some of my power point…