More news for developers today as PapayaMobile has launched a new toolkit that will allow anyone who makes HTML5/Flash games to port them over into a fully featured Android game. This is all done without having to deal with any new coding languages.
Tag: game development
For those of you who haven’t heard of Skiller and their free open-source SDK for game developers to use, it is a lot like OpenFeint and other, more social, SDKs available for developers to use. This particular SDK, however, focuses more on building actual multiplayer games.
Pocketeers Limited have just released a new open source game engine for developers to use to build games. This new engine is cross-platform compatible which will allow developers to build games for iOS, Android, Bada and Blackberry devices.
Crowdfunding has become rather popular recently and for developers can be quite successful. A prime example of this is the recent news regarding Double Take’s Kickstarter project which, as of right now, is sitting at around $1.6million dollars. So we decided to take a look at some of the bigger crowdfunding sites out there and see what is being offered up for funding regarding Android games.
Best Buy and Hooked Media have apparently teamed up to host an Android game developer contest called Get Discovered!. The contest is pretty simply really and apparently the only real work you will have to do is use the Hooked SDK in a new game of yours which will integrate Hooked Media’s new discovery platform with your game.
[Updated] Ice Cream Sandwich source code to be released on November 17th? Actually it’s available now.
Developers who have been waiting for the Ice Cream Sandwich source code to be released may not have to wait much longer to get their hands on it. According to the CEO of Notion Ink, Rohan Shravan, the source code is planned for a release date of November 17th.
Today Sony has begun accepting developer sign-ups for the beta version of their Playstation SDK. The SDK from Sony is to provide developers a more uniform platform in which to develop games for the PS Vita and Sony’s Android devices which include the Sony S and Sony P tablets, the Xperia play as well as future devices.
Just two days ago we announced that Unreal Engine is now supporting Flash 11 officially. While this already is some great news, CryTek has now come out to make sure that if you aren’t excited over that then perhaps you will be once you hear that they are investigating supporting Flash with CryEngine 3 as well.
So word out of the Tokyo Game Show today has Sony announcing their new Playstation SDK which will allow developers to use one SDK when creating games that will run on all the Playstation Certified devices. This includes the Xperia Play, the two new Sony Tablets and even the PS Vita.
Throughout our travels on the internet looking for game developers who are working on Android games we sometimes stumble onto some nice little gems which are unfortunately not currently planned for mobile release. Although they may not be coming to mobile, they would look and play great on mobile devices.