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android open source game engines (updated)

michal — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:51:59 +0000

For some time I’ve been searching for a decent open source game engine for Android platform, so far I haven’t found much. Those below seem as the most interesting ones but I doubt if this is all…

Engines

The open source game engine for Android.

andengine – 2D framework

http://www.andengine.org/

https://github.com/nicolasgramlich/AndEngine OpenGL ES 2.0

http://code.google.com/p/andengine/ OpenGL ES 1.0

Learning Android Game Programming: A Hands-On Guide to Building Your First Android Game – book

libGDX – Android/desktop game development framework

http://code.google.com/p/libgdx/

http://www.badlogicgames.com/wordpress/ - blog

Beginning Android Games and Beginning Android 4 Games Development (Beginning Apress) - books

android port of box2d

http://code.google.com/p/androidbox2d/

cocos for android

http://code.google.com/p/cocos2d-android/

YoghurtGum

http://code.google.com/p/yoghurtgum/

~~This is the most complete framework I found so far. Discontinued.~~

~~http://www.rokonandroid.com/ and source code http://code.google.com/p/rokon/~~

Samples

You can learn a lot from samples and games below.

Sample Applications for the Android platform

http://code.google.com/p/apps-for-android/

Android open source project: library, demos and applications.

http://code.google.com/p/skylight1/

Games

Port of a famous 3d shooter to Android (Quake3 )

http://code.google.com/p/kwaak3/

A side-scrolling action game for Android.

http://code.google.com/p/replicaisland/

Comercial

unity3d

http://unity3d.com/ (~$3K)

strange little town

michal — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:23:00 +0000

This is my first attempt to BlogEngine.NET theme. Strange little town by magically (seems like this site is down), when I saw this theme on WordPress Theme Directory I immediately fall in love with it, you can view privateasteroid.com with this theme here or download archive file.

strange-little-town-01
Enjoy

IE8 Compatibility tag

michal — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:01:00 +0000

It seems that this theme is not compatible with IE8 Beta 2, so I’ve put some quick patch, the tag for backward compatibility: , that I found on MSDN and more tags explained here.

Updating Projects

michal — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:22:00 +0000

I try to update my Silverlight projects, here are tips that I found:

and Silverlight Game Framework example from DesertCodeCamp 2008

But with Silverlight 2 Beta 2 on my machine each time I close Visual Studio 2008, it crashes then reopens again , it’s still buggy…

Silverlight 2 Beta 2

michal — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:14:00 +0000

Finally, Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is out, if you are developer you can download Silverlight 2 Beta 2 chainer here. Silverlight runtime can be found here.
Most valuable source of information about this release can be found on ScottGu’s Blog where you can find description of Beta 2 features. But before I could install Beta 2, I had to manually uninstall some fixes from my Vista, here you can find answers for your problems.And finally if everything worked, install latest Expression Blend and Deep Zoom Composer.

Unfortunately after upgrade, it seems that all Beta 1 applications stopped to work, at last for me, I tried to quickly recompile my project, but I get a lots of errors, so I need little more time to restore it to live, until then you can play Buddy Knavery game.

Flash with hardware acceleration for 3D

michal — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:20:00 +0000

That ‘s really impressive, Flash becomes strong competitor on RIA market, especially for multiplatform web based game developers.

link

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta not yet for Silverlight

michal — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:31:00 +0000

VS 2008 SP1 Beta released, but it seems it does not work well with VS 2008 Tools for Silverlight 2 Beta1
“We will release an updated VS 2008 Tools for Silverlight package in a few weeks that works with the VS 2008 SP1 beta”
Will it be Beta 2 then?

2d physics engines libraries for .net

michal — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:42:00 +0000

So far I have found three different 2d physics engines for .NET:

Farseer Physics Engine http://www.codeplex.com/FarseerPhysics (http://www.farseergames.com/)
Physics2D http://code.google.com/p/physics2d/
Box2dx http://code.google.com/p/box2dx/ famous Box2d ported to .NET

Currently I play with Farseer, but Box2d also looks very interesting, I think that as soon as I finish ceres level editor I’ll try Box2dx. So far I couldn’t find enough time, I thought I’ll be able to upload it by the end of April, but it seems now it will be end of May …

ASP.NET Developer Server and Vista

michal — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:55:00 +0000

When I tried to debug ASP.NET or Silverlight apps under Vista, IE failed to load page, it couldn’t find it. What I found out on web http://accidentaltechnologist.com/asp-net/aspnet-development-server-problems-under-vista/ that was problem with ipv6 in Vista and lack of it in IE, the best solution I have found so far is commenting out the line containing ::1 in windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts file. I’m not sure if it is best solution but I don’t know any other…

I’m trying to finish ceres game, but I don’t have too much time for that, Jeff Weber helped me a lot giving some advices, but I still need to invent some levels.