http://fasterkittycodecode.com dev/blog Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:05:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en More geeking out about iPhone game programming and textures. The version of the texture tool provided with the iPhone sdk outputs a compressed texture with absolutely no header information. The lack of header forces your code to know the details like width, height, bitdepth, and pixel format instead of it ... http://fasterkittycodecode.com/archives/23 My first thought when planning to make a 2D game for the iPhone was to find a way to not re-invent the wheel. I did some web searching and came across the website for Cocos2D, a port of the library to the iPhone. Great, looks like just what I needed...well, ... http://fasterkittycodecode.com/archives/19 I'm going to be participating in the Global Game Jam at FullSail here in Orlando at the end of the month. I've never been part of one of these events so I'm not quite sure what to expect. I've seen some really interesting projects come out of other Game Jam ... http://fasterkittycodecode.com/archives/14 Plenty of challenges with the new project for the iPhone. Attempting to use someone else's third party library is getting to be too annoying. Instead of trying to munge it to be what I need, I'll probably just drop back to writing my own layer. My experience with 3D is ... http://fasterkittycodecode.com/archives/11 I added some new links to the right hand sidebar. Some of the links are gaming news, people I follow or just things I find entertaining. More to come in the near future. http://fasterkittycodecode.com/archives/7 It's time to start my blog over again. I've wiped out the old layout and found something a lot cuter. I may bring back the archives but for now I just want to see how things look then it's off to bed. http://fasterkittycodecode.com/archives/4