(This is a continuing series sharing design and implementation notes for a cross platform 2D game or graphical app engine I wrote in C# using Xamarin and Monogame.) It was hard to choose next between covering the animation system, physics engine, or custom scripting...
(Third in the "Radically Cross Platform" series of posts; see previous posts about Xamarin, Memory Management, and Serialization.) This is supposed to be about spritesheets, aka texture atlases, which are raster (bitmap, or pixel based) collections of...
Shared cross platform development is a concept that resonates very positively with all of us as programmers. It’s a nice outworking of the DRY principle, and seems like it would free engineers up to accomplish more. So why is it so rare that we do it? I...
I’ve been writing a series of posts here over the last few months discussing the JUCE C++ application framework and how useful it’s been in creating the ‘Scumbler’ looping audio performance application that’s my current nights &...
As a C++ developer, I’ve spent a great deal of time working with the cross-platform C++ framework, Qt. It’s been a great help in building apps that need to be able to run on Windows, Linux, and OS X. Over the last couple of years there have been more and more mentions...
