Reducing Vertex Bandwidth Overhead After weeks of optimizing our voxel game engine, we still weren’t getting the kind of frame-rate we needed, so the decision was made to finally switch to using VBO‘s (Vertex Buffer Objects) to pass data to the GPU instead of passing vertex arrays every frame. This predictably improved performance a great […]
Our fruit-smashing match-3 game, Fruits Orchard can be a tough game to beat, with hundreds of tricky puzzles to wrap your brain around. If you want to progress further, here are some tips for solving even the hardest of levels… Tip 1 – Make Use of Power-Fruit The Power-Fruit can be very useful for clearing […]
Once you’ve unlocked the map editor in our latest Android platform game, Mazuna World, you can make anything you want with a little experimentation – but the game’s built-in editor contains many secrets to discover. In this post, we’re going to reveal 10 of the most useful tips for making the most of your levels… […]
Everyone enjoys a good puzzle game to keep us occupied, and Treasure Gems for Android certainly has players scratching their heads at times – and with 280 challenging levels, we get a lot of questions from people asking how to progress, how to get more boosters, or if a certain level is even possible. The […]
In the last post we talked about getting the UI working, but in fact we’ve been working on much more than that – many of the gameplay elements are starting to come together; building and destroying blocks, player animations, and a working inventory. What started as a basic engine is starting to look like an […]