Bake Sale Blow-Up and Cocos2d
A few people have asked about how we built our new iPad game “Bake Sale Blow-Up” (http://bakesaleblowup.com).The whole story is bigger than I know how to summarize, but the programming was engaging in...
View ArticleThe challenges of designing Bake Sale Blow-Up: Part 1 Choosing a Concept
When you decide you want to write a game the number choices can seem overwhelming. The first thing you have to decide is what type of game you want to write. However, even that decision isn’t always...
View ArticleThe future is here. Again.
I ran across this back in December, but completely forgot about it until BC and I were talking about iPhone apps the other day. WordLensis an iPhone app that translates text from one language to...
View ArticleBlackBerry Torch vs. iPhone 4
The BlackBerry Torch is one of the latest BlackBerry smartphones that retains BlackBerry’s strength – a QWERTY keyboard – and also packs a lot of capacity in the touchscreen display. This post will...
View ArticleAll we are saying is give MADPs a chance
In 2010 and 2011, one of the most pressing questions facing mobile development projects is the question of whether or not you’re writing the app in native or HTML5. (Implicitly, these options always...
View ArticleHackathon in the key of mobile
We had pizza. We had Doritos. We were coding up a storm after most of the office had gone home. All of those details could only point to one thing: an Intelliware hackathon! The mobile development...
View ArticleField Notes from WWDC: Xcode 5 Highlights
With the unveiling of iOS 7 and OS X 10.9, Apple needed to provide developers with new tools. This meant a new release of Xcode with lots of features to improve developer productivity and support for...
View ArticleField Notes from WWDC: New frameworks & APIs
iOS 7 has a new typography system that lets developers specify font sizes semantically. This gives users the ability to specify fonts sizes that are best suited to their needs while the UI handles...
View ArticleThe Real Power of iOS 7 Will Be Unlocked by Developers
Playing with early betas of iOS 7 tells you little about what to expect from Apple’s latest iOS update A lot has already been written in reaction to Apple’s announcement of iOS 7. Most of the focus has...
View ArticleiOS hover causes the user to double click a link
We have found through building some websites for various clients that when using jQuery mouse events, on iOS mouse over events are turned into clicks. So that means any hover events are executed on the...
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