5 years old
This blog is now a lustrum old. A few days ago I received the yearly invoice from the hosting company, curiosity kicked in and made me check the date for the first one. I was surprised to see it’s from...
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Super Jumper Ashley remake
Ashley Super Jumper has been my weekend project. It is nothing more than a clone of the Libgdx demo game. The catch is that it goes for an entity system approach rather than the classic inheritance...
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Libgdx for Cross-platform Game Development Cookbook is out!
After over a year of long hours after my day job, sweat, blood and tears, my colleague Alberto Cejas and I are extremely proud to announce that our Libgdx for Cross-platform Game Development Cookbook...
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We have a Libgdx Cookbook winner!
To celebrate the release of our Libgdx Cross-platform Game Development Cookbook we announced a raffle on Twitter earlier this week. A few RTs later and a random number generation, the winner is…...
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Upcoming talk at Kingston University
I’ll be delivering a small presentation to the games development students at Kingston University of London on Monday November 24th. The reason behind the talk is the recent publication of our Libgdx...
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Libgdx at the London Java Community Meetup
Next Tuesday 3rd of February I will be talking about Libgdx at the London Java Community Meetup. Things won’t get too technical, I’ll introduce the framework, explain why it’s so awesome, show who is...
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2D Game Art for Programmers copyright infringement
This story really upset me, but let’s start from the beginning for context’s sake. I’ve been following Chris Hildenbrand’s blog 2D Game Art for Programmers since the very beginning because it’s...
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New domain and hosting
It’s been over 5 years since I registered siondream.com. At that time, I also signed up for a shared hosting plan with Hostgator. Unfortunately, I’m no longer 16 years old, so the domain felt a bit...
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Libgdx Cookbook is now as cheap as beer!
This holiday season you can buy Libgdx Cross-platform Game Development Cookbook just for what a beer would set you back! It’s either £4, $6 or 5€ until January 6th. So, do you liver a favour, don’t...
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Ashley 1.7.2 released
Small Ashley release, check the changes for 1.7.2 below: Bug fix: Engine doesn’t use EntitySystem iterator(). Bug fix: Fixes Engine left unusable, in the updating state, after an uncaught exception in...
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