Author Archives: James McParlane

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About James McParlane

CTO Massive Interactive. Ex Computer Whiz Kid - Now Grumpy Old Guru.

The Game – Progress Report #11

Posted on July 11, 2013 by James McParlane

I have an OpenGL port of our game engine… it coughs blood but it’s mostly there.

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A MineCraft Server For Kids In Australia

Posted on July 7, 2013 by James McParlane

My son runs a MineCraft server. He is 12. He’s been running it for the last year. The server is mostly populated for kids in the Sydney/Melbourne area with a large contingent of inner city school kids from the Newtown/Marrickville area. … Continue reading →

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MonoGame and OUYA

Posted on July 3, 2013 by James McParlane

Monogame is a complete pain to get up and running. This is mainly because there is a requirement for Mono.Android and the user experience for the install is completely abysmal. It never seemed to try and prompt me to upgrade … Continue reading →

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We Got Our OUYA

Posted on June 28, 2013 by James McParlane

Hex is now a registered game on the OUYA developer portal. We reserved our name! Yay! More updates soon.

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The Game – Progress Report #10

Posted on May 26, 2013 by James McParlane

Added a Minecraft style console. Decided to do this now as it will help with development. It’s much easier to test and switch things around in a game engine commands so I’m investing in this now so I can save … Continue reading →

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The impending or maybe never ‘AppleTV’ and what it means for storefront developers

Posted on April 17, 2013 by James McParlane

“Yep. If there is going to be an actual TV… the SDK for the current device will be its herald.” Changed my mind on this statement. I guess I was just really hoping that they would publish a SDK and … Continue reading →

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The Game – Progress Report #9

Posted on March 23, 2013 by James McParlane

I love it when a plan comes together. In my last post I mentioned that there was a problem in X/Y translations of hexagon ‘bitmaps’. I was a little worried when in the middle of this I realised the hexagon … Continue reading →

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The Game – Progress Report #8

Posted on March 16, 2013 by James McParlane

I’ve created a Hexagon ‘bitmap‘ that is going to act as a primitive for menu layouts, buttons etc. On top of this ‘bitmap’ primitive I intend to create a kind of hexagon ‘postscript‘ which is an almost ‘Turtle” style language. … Continue reading →

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The Game – Progress Report #7

Posted on March 7, 2013 by James McParlane

More game design by Mr11 – Ship Engineering

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The Game – Progress Report #6

Posted on February 15, 2013 by James McParlane

More game design by Mr11 – Space Battles Ships See Each Other Fire! Aftermath!

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