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How Siri Works

By Jeff | Published: October 5, 2011

NEWS FLASH: Check out House of Shadows, my latest game for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Once again someone has offered us incredible artificial intelligence, and once again we are bracing for disappointment. It happened with handwriting recognition on the Newton, which proved to be slow and clumsy. It happened with the not-as-smart-as-they-first-appeared creatures of [...]

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Porting a Fixed-Function Game to a Programmable Pipeline: Part 3

By Jeff | Published: June 12, 2010

I’m porting Crush the Castle from a fixed-function, OpenGL 1 renderer to a programmable, OpenGL 2 renderer. In the last couple of posts I described how I separated my initial fixed-function renderer into three distinct classes: An abstract Renderer interface that the game itself talks to A concrete implementation of the Renderer interface that uses [...]

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Porting a Fixed-Function Game to a Programmable Pipeline: Part 2

By Jeff | Published: May 29, 2010

This series of posts is about converting an existing OpenGL 1 renderer into a “dual,” abstract renderer that can speak to either OpenGL 1 or OpenGL 2 depending on what the hardware supports. In the particular case that I’m working on, I’m taking Crush the Castle, which was written for OpenGL 1 hardware on the [...]

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Porting a Fixed-Function Game to a Programmable Pipeline: Part 1

By Jeff | Published: May 29, 2010

I’ve started work on porting Crush the Castle from the iPhone/iPod Touch to the iPad. I thought I’d share some of the technical issues I’ve encountered while expanding the Crush the Castle renderer from an OpenGL 1-based system to a system that supports both OpenGL 1 and OpenGL 2. When my daughter wants the iPad [...]

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An Update for Crush the Castle is On Its Way

By Jeff | Published: January 12, 2010

An awesome new update for Crush the Castle is on its way to the iPhone App Store. The update adds a whole new continent with 40 additional levels, three insane new weapons, improvements to the editor, even faster performance, and more. If you haven’t tried Crush the Castle on your iPhone or iPod Touch, the [...]

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How to Get Your iPhone App into the Top 10

By Jeff | Published: December 18, 2009

This week Crush the Castle hit the top 10 list on the iPhone App Store. I’ve helped release a dozen iPhone/iPod Touch apps in the last year and a half. Some have made money. Others have tanked. But Crush the Castle is the first to have climbed to the top echelons of iPhone apps. It’s [...]

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New iPhone Game: Crush the Castle

By Jeff | Published: October 14, 2009

This summer I made a new game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. You should play it, ’cause it rules. Crush the Castle gives you a trebuchet (a sort of giant catapult) and challenges you to knock down enemy castles in as few shots as possible. If you like building things and knocking them down [...]

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Why You Do Not Want to Make an iPhone App

By Jeff | Published: June 5, 2009

I’ve been making iPhone apps for over a year now and I have one thing to say: Don’t do it. The iPhone looks like a dream platform. A large user base (about 30 million). An excellent attach rate, with most users downloading dozens of apps. Lots of “cool” factor. It’s a place where you want [...]

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Get Phit

By Jeff | Published: July 31, 2008

Phit for the iPhone and iPod Touch is now available from the iTunes store. Get Phit!

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iPhone 3D Renderer

By Jeff | Published: June 13, 2008

Progress on porting Phit to the iPhone has moved quickly this week. On Wednesday I set out to port my 3D renderer from Windows to the iPhone. This is a renderer I’ve maintained for several years and which I use in teaching 3D rendering for games at the Guildhall. (A renderer is a piece of [...]

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