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Archive | June, 2010
Tip o’the Day™ 1: Take Advantage of Consts
Conditionals and Consts Here’s something you might not have thought about doing with your conditionals. I came across this quite some time ago and I gave it a try because I thought it made sense. Now it has become a habit so I do this all the time. It's not a drastic change from your existing coding habits and it doesn't require much effort, but it will help you find errors in your code more quickly.
Continue reading...I Know What Your Files Are (or, Why You Should Hide Your Data)
22 June 2010
Should you be worried that I know exactly what your bundle contains? Does it bother you that I can use your files directly without your knowledge? How about this one: would you be ok with me taking your files and creating a clone of your app? This might come as a surprise to you, but unless you do something about it, there is nothing stopping someone from doing all of these things to your app. TODAY!
Continue reading...Reducing the Download Footprint
15 June 2010
For a long time now, I have been thinking about what developers can do to reduce their app’s size. I’m not talking about the easy and obvious stuff like file merging and data compression, though we’ll talk about that in a future post. I’m talking about the extra steps developers can take that would really make a difference in their app’s download size.
Continue reading...AppStore Screenshots 101
8 June 2010
Since I’m a game developer, I pay more attention to the games category in the AppStore than any other. The iPhone AppStore has been open to developers for over 3 years now so I’m still amazed at how developers can get their screenshots so wrong.
Continue reading...The Wired Issue
1 June 2010
Wired’s new iPad app was released on May 26, 2010 and instantly became Apple’s iPad App of the Week. It has been touted as the future of magazines and a bold step forward for digital and interactive content. However, all isn't rosy in the land of digital publishing (yet?)...
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- Don’t Make Me Think
- I Know What Your Files Are (or, Why You Should Hide Your Data)
- Reducing the Download Footprint
- The Wired Issue
- Tyler: Thanks for sharing this, it was really helpful when doing my implementation....
- Jessy: If memory reduction is actually a driving force, then using uncompressed textures isn't the right solution. PVRTC doesn't offer a particularly simple...
- Blade: I just ported this over to UDK, got the basics of it working great. Now off to learn the Material system so I can actually build the textures for the ...
- BuffaloJ: Great tip! I've done C++ for 15 years and have used unions only a tiny amount. I can think of 5 places in my engine code that this would be very ele...
- Bob Koon: Thanks for your comment. I was saving discussion of the POW2 problem for the next article. You're right though. The biggest waste that I've seen on...
- Adam: Nice article. It raises some very useful points. It doesn't, however, address the shortcoming of Apple not including the non-POT (Power Of Two) textur...
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29 June 2010
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