IwGame Engine v0.35 Released – Multi-touch User Interface, XOML Programs, 9-Patch Rendering and Arrays

New here? What’s IwGame? IwGame is an open source free to use cross platform game engine for iPhone, iPad, Android, Bada, Playbook, Symbian, Windows Mobile, LG-TV, Windows and Mac, built on top of the Marmalade SDK. You can find out more and download the SDK from our IwGame Engine page. Its been a while since […]

IwGame Engine 0.35 coming this weekend with luck

Its been a long hard slog getting the UI update in but we finally feel confident that there are enough features in the UI system now to release IwGame 0.35 this week / early next week.  The new bindable UI makes the IwGame engine equally potent as a general app development engine as well as […]

Marmalade SDK 6.0.2 Released

Marmalade have just released 6.0.2 of their awesome SDK. Looking at the change list there are some very welcome bug fixes: Exporters: Added support for Maya 2013 and Max 2012 iOS: touches are no longer passed to the surface below the web view iOS: s3eOSReadString now handles split keyboards correctly iOS: added s3eEdkAppGetInitialOpenURL to get […]

Yet another IwGame Engine UI Progress Update

Not had a great deal of spare time to spend on the UI this week but did manage to get a few cool things in there including: Scrolling grids Scrolling list boxes Horizontal list boxes 9-patch brushes Child element sizing based on percentage of parent Child clipping Grid per column bindings Dynamic resizing of elements, […]

Luck Bubbles – Why some are luckier than others

Last year I was sat in the garden on the swing in the blazing son, relaxing and thinking up nonsense. I happened to think  back to a chat I had with my father some years before where he said that “if there was no bad luck in the Universe then he would have no luck at […]

IwGame UI Progress Update

Got a quick update showing how the IwGame engines UI system is shaping up. Note that the UI system is “bitmap” based and IwGame does not draw things like buttons, grids etc.. manually. Here’s a quick screen shot at iPad resolution showing some basic UI: This is just a static image however, so you cannot […]

Pocketeers Limited is taking on New Mobile Projects

  Need a mobile game or app developed across multiple platforms (iPhone, iPad, Andriod,Bada, PlayBook etc..) at little extra cost? Or maybe you need a rapid prototype of your next game or app idea creating as proof of concept? Pocketeers Limited a UK based mobile app and game developer (established in 2002) responsible for the […]