There has been a major update to the Texture Packer software produced by Andreas Löw.  You might recall that I have mentioned Andreas' software previously to simplify making sprites for your mobile...

I've just returned from the ReLIVE 2011 conference (pronounce RelIve as in "It's a-live!", not re-leve, as in "I want to live"). ReLIVE is the Researching Learning In Virtual Environments held in...

I am regularly asked by many people, especially high school students, what they need to do/learn to get ready to make games.  My advice is don't wait until your in college to start learning to make...

Kwik is an Adobe Photoshop plugin that allows you to add animation, videos, sounds, rollover effects, buttons, and much more, all in Photoshop and export the results as a finished mobile app.  This...

“Wow!” was my first thought when I opened up LevelHelper.  After playing with level helper for just a few minutes, I began to get seriously excited about the next sprite based game that I would...

Texture Packer takes your sprites and packs them, with incredible results!  It is capable of dramatically reducing your file size and packing more sprites into a single sheet.  Texture Packer also...