As part of our extended GDC 2012 coverage, we ran into the fine folks from LunarG who have developed an SDK that will let Android game developers add features to their games that will let players record and share in-game recordings just by installing a free SDK. Best part is, you won’t need root as a player.
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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.
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.
According to a new find in the Android 4.0 SDK, Ice Cream Sandwich will come with full support of game controllers. While for some people this isn’t anything new as Honeycomb came with USB Host support for peripherals back in the 3.1 update which includes game controllers.
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.
Today Qualcomm has taken the leap and launched their Augmented Reality Platform for Android. Last year it was released in beta form for developers to play around with and develop apps/games for the developers challenge. Now it is available in non-beta form for developers to actually release apps and games commercially.
Papaya Mobile has released a fair amount of games onto the Android Market, mostly geared to the social/casual gamers out there. Today they have announced that they will be integrating Google’s in-app purchasing into their social gaming network on Android. Not surprisingly the first game to have this will be Papaya Farm HD.
If you haven’t had enough information regarding Playstation and Android then here is some more and rather interesting news. The Gingerbread (Android 2.3) SDK has been released today and with that everyone is tearing it apart to see what is inside. One of the major focuses of Android 2.3 is gaming, so does it come as a surprise that Playstation button support was found inside?
Well here is an early morning double header for everyone out there in Android land. Google has officially announced that Gingerbread is out, the SDK is now available. On top of that, the Nexus S support page has gone live which shows us all the hardware specs regarding Google’s second phone. Lets dive into the details shall we?
One of the two main cross-platform social gaming platforms has received a pretty big update. After listening to developers and user feedback, Scoreloop has released version 2.0 of their SDK. Developers can now add even more features to their games and users have a lot more options available to play around with.