IwGame Engine – Using Templates Tutorial

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. A forum poster asked a question recently that made me realise that XOML Templates can quite easily be overlooked as a […]

IwGame Engine Tutorial – Image, Brush, Animation and Timeline Overview

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. This tutorial is a basic overview of the image, brush, animation and timeline systems. Images Art work definition in XOML is […]

IwGame Engine v0.36 Released – XML Data bindings, Video, True Type Fonts and First 100% XOML Mark-up Driven Game

New here? What’s IwGame? IwGame is an open source free to use cross platform game and app 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 […]

The Worlds first 100% XML Mark-up Driven Puzzle Game made with XOML

Well we finally cracked it, we’ve been aiming to create a game in 100% XOML mark-up and it finally happened. We created a small logic puzzle game called 10. The game itself has simple rules. The screen is filled with cards, each card having a value of 0 to 9. The user selects 3 cards, […]

IwGame – How to mix raw Open GL with IwGame Scenes

A fellow developer recently had the need to mix raw Open GL with IwGame scenes so I decided to take a look into the matter. The problem with mixing the Marmalade SDK’s graphics sub systems IwGx and Iw2D with raw Openm GL is two fold: Marmalade’s IwGxClear() / Iw2DSurfaceClear() functions seem to do something internally […]

New Marmalade SDK FAQ

I trawl the Marmalade SDK forums from time to time and I see many questions that come up from time to time. In an attempt to answer those questions and cut down Marmalade forum traffic I have started a Marmalade SDK FAQ that should hopefully help fellow Marmalade developers find answers to commonly asked questions […]

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, […]