I’m really interest in the amount of time younger members of the family put in to watching videos of other people play Minecraft. Minecraft is a game, a pretty good one too; wouldn’t they be more interested in actually playing it instead? I’m not the only person wondering what it Read more…
I’ve recently been recording the screen of my Raspberry Pi to show a friend how to do various things on it, I’ve been asked to share my technique for screen recording. The truth is that I am not actually running any recording software on the Pi itself, I have set Read more…
Incremental Games are a recently recognised genre of video game that is popular on mobile phones and browser game sites such as Kongregate with the simple goal to earn as much ‘currency as possible. The currency itself can take many forms, but is basically an integer that is increased by Read more…
One of the things I liked about Android development was that it was very easy to get up and running, you could get a phone for very cheap and you could sign your own applications so they would run on any phone. I liked the beta testing in the store Read more…
In a period of both getting and bidding for new projects a colleague said: “The thing about all these exciting things is that they always end in disaster”. To be fair my colleague had a lot on his mind, he is currently writing a project bid and has just sat Read more…
In gaming circles a ‘shit crayon’ is a term used when a user creates something amazing despite the barriers that have been put in front of them. The term was coined by popular game developer and writer Ian Bogost and draws from the concept of the magic crayon by Chaim Read more…
I found setting up the Unity remote is easy to do on Android, I expect that the iOS version is a similar easy process. The Unity Remote is found on the play store, there are a couple on there so make sure you get Unity Remote 4, it should be free and developed by Unity Technologies. The play store doesn’t have an approval process and while this is great for developing and deploying apps fast it does has a problem with fake apps, always be carefully when downloading on the play store!
The Google Scholar site doesn’t have an API, which is a shame and has left me to park one of my current projects on the sideline for now. I still spent half a day working out the best method to get information out of it so thought I would write Read more…
I’ve started making apps with Cordova / PhoneGap. My set up is somewhat unconventional as I am just creating the projects at the command line, writing the applications using web technologies and signing them myself. I am not using the PhoneGap build service or any emulators on my machine. I Read more…
This week I have logged in to two different platforms in the hope of learning something new. Out of these two platforms the first pone I logged on to was called edX. It is an online platform and I was there to do an online course called ‘Big Data and Read more…
