Marmalade SDK Tutorial – Creating an Extensible Animation System

This tutorial is part of the Marmalade SDK tutorials collection. To see the tutorials index click here Had flu all week and now I’ve been afflicted with a chest infection so it’s been a pretty miserable week. At least the news of our game BattleBallz Chaos being shown at the Blackberry… Read more“Marmalade SDK Tutorial – Creating an Extensible Animation System”

Marmalade SDK News – Tim Closs on why the Marmalade SDK is so good

Interview with Tim Closs the CTO of the cross platform smart phone and tablet SDK, Marmalade SDK at Blackberry Devcon 2011 conference. Tim mentions how the Marmalade SDK is a good choice for bringing premium content to a variety of platforms (iOS, Android, Bada, Playbook, Symbian, LG TV and more)… Read more“Marmalade SDK News – Tim Closs on why the Marmalade SDK is so good”

BattleBallz Chaos by Pocketeers Limited Shown on Blackberry Playbook Gaming Ad

One of our games “BattleBallz Chaos” for Blackberry Playbook has been shown on Blackberry’s Playbook gaming ad! Well, not bad to say it only took us four hours (yes, you did read that right), 4 hours to convert the game using the amazing Marmalade SDK. We we’re also the first… Read more“BattleBallz Chaos by Pocketeers Limited Shown on Blackberry Playbook Gaming Ad”

Pocketeers Limited’s BattleBallz Chaos featured on stage at Blackberry Devcon 2011

Well, I’m pleased as punch today, our game and in association with the Marmalade SDK, BattleBallz Chaos got featured on stage (on the big screen – man I seriously want one of those big babies!) by the posh smart men in suits 🙂 Here’s the proof: Oh yeah that’s right, come on,… Read more“Pocketeers Limited’s BattleBallz Chaos featured on stage at Blackberry Devcon 2011”

Marmalade SDK Bitesize Tutorial – How to force a CIw2DImage texture to upload

Welcome to another bite size Marmalade SDK tutorial. I’ve seen this question pop up a few times in the Marmalade SDk forums so I thought that I would cover it here as a bite size tutorial. You are using the Iw2D module to render handle 2D images, but you need… Read more“Marmalade SDK Bitesize Tutorial – How to force a CIw2DImage texture to upload”

Marmalade SDK Bitesize Tutorial – How to Launch an External File or Web Link

Welcome to another bite size Marmalade SDK tutorial.  This tutorial covers a cross platform way of opening up web links and other types of external file using the Marmalade SDK. The Marmalade SDK contains a cool function called s3eOSExecExecute() which will launch the file / URL that you provide as… Read more“Marmalade SDK Bitesize Tutorial – How to Launch an External File or Web Link”

News from Pocketeers

We finally scrounged a little free time to update our company web site with some of our latest developments over at http://www.pocketeers.co.uk Pocketgamer.biz featured some of my mental ramblings with regards to the Marmalade SDK over on their site today, so I’m pleased as punch. I also found myself watching… Read more“News from Pocketeers”

Marmalade SDK news – Marmalade 5.1.8 now available for download

Down with the dreaded flu right now so just a few quick blogs for now. I find it amazing and cool just at how often Marmalade update their SDK. I’m also ultra excited about the impending 5.2 release, lots of cool new stuff due including native UI. I’m hoping to… Read more“Marmalade SDK news – Marmalade 5.1.8 now available for download”

Marmalade SDK Tutorial – CIwGameSprite – Creating a Robust Sprite Class

This tutorial is part of the Marmalade SDK tutorials collection. To see the tutorials index click here Well, another busy day and as usual I have too much to do and there are only 24 hours in a day (I could do with coding and blogging on a ship travelling… Read more“Marmalade SDK Tutorial – CIwGameSprite – Creating a Robust Sprite Class”

Marmalade SDK Tutorial – Dealing with files and the file system

This tutorial is part of the Marmalade SDK tutorials collection. To see the tutorials index click here This evening we are going to cover dealing with files and the file system in a cross platform manner using the Marmalade SDK. Note that there is no associated code with this tutorial as… Read more“Marmalade SDK Tutorial – Dealing with files and the file system”