The all new IndieDeveloper a social community for game developers

Do you love to make games?  Are you passionate about making games?  Do you want to find other developers just like yourself?  Well, I recently came across a new social community and resource for developers of all professional skill levels. You can join a community of independent game developers and… Read more“The all new IndieDeveloper a social community for game developers”

Booty5 HTML5 Game Maker 1.9.2b out now – Web Audio API Support Added

Support for the Web Audio API has been added offering better control over audio playback. Using it is s simple case of ticking support for it in the projects properties (on by default). Full list of changes include: Game Editor v1.9.2b: Added new use web audio export option to project… Read more“Booty5 HTML5 Game Maker 1.9.2b out now – Web Audio API Support Added”

Booty5 HTML5 Game Maker 1.9.1b Available – Text preview and collision flags

Booty5 the HTML5 Game Maker v1.9.1b is now available for free download. Editor Changes: Scale and angle are now affected in multiple actor selections Editor export properties now supports smoothing property that will enable / disable anti-aliasing during rendering Added support for rounding pixels to actors, if disabled then pixel… Read more“Booty5 HTML5 Game Maker 1.9.1b Available – Text preview and collision flags”

Booty5 HTML5 Game Maker 1.9 Available – Tiled Maps

Booty5 the HTML5 Game Maker v1.9.0b is now available for free download. Support for tile map rendering has been added to the engine, whilst support for tile map editing has been added to the game maker. A quick screen shot of the new tile map editor is shown below: Booty5… Read more“Booty5 HTML5 Game Maker 1.9 Available – Tiled Maps”

Free Booty5 HTML5 Game Maker Manual e-book now available

The first version of the Booty5 HTML5 Game Maker Manual e-book is now available for free download. Find out more on the Booty5 free e-book page.

Booty5 v1.8.9b now available – Code restructure and Actions Lists

Booty5 1.8.9b out NOW Booty5 1.8.9b represents a big shift towards making the Booty5 JavaScript engine more modern, a number of major changes have taken place to the engine including: Code restructured All classes moved into the b5 namespace TheApp class renamed to App window.app replaced with b5.app Added new… Read more“Booty5 v1.8.9b now available – Code restructure and Actions Lists”

Marmalade v Unity Speed and Size Matters

Marmalade have recently carried out speed and deployment size tests between test apps written with both Marmalade SDK and Unity 3D and the results are somewhat surprising. The test app basically displays a little over 400 animating sprites. Here are the results: Unity APK size is 658% larger than the… Read more“Marmalade v Unity Speed and Size Matters”

Build Flash Style HTML5 Games with Booty5

The latest version of Booty5 the free HTML5 game maker now has support for creating Flash like animations, enabling web developers to create Flash like games across mobile and desktop browsers using an easy to use WYSIWYG game editor. A screen shot of the editor in actions is shown below:… Read more“Build Flash Style HTML5 Games with Booty5”

Booty5 1.8.6b out now – audio fallback, templates, merged caches

Engine Changes: Added new property to Actor called merge_cache which when set to true will attempt to merge the actors rendering into a suitable parents cache. Note that once an actor has been merged into its parent its visual properties cannot be modified Add new property to TheApp called focus_scene2… Read more“Booty5 1.8.6b out now – audio fallback, templates, merged caches”