In my last post we looked at using ETC1 compressed textures on the Xamarin Android platform. In that case we just used the texture and some fancy shader magic to fake transparency. In this article we’ll how we can split the alpha channel out to a separate file which we […]
When developing for iOS or Windows Phone you don’t really need to take into account different screen resolutions. Yes the iPhone and iPad do scale things differently but on the iPad you provide some special content which will allow the system to scale you game and still get it to […]
So …. supporting compressed textures on android is a right pain. There are a number of different graphics chips in play and they all support different texture compression formats, not very helpful. The only common format that is supported by all devices is the ETC1 format (ETC2 is GLES 3.0 […]
So you have a great android project you are working on. It might be a game or an app it doesn’t matter, the key thing is you have a ton of Assets you want to include. Not Resources, i.e stuff you find in the resources folder like layout/values etc, but […]
So in my last post I explained a challenge set down by my good friend @TheCacktus to write a game in 4 weeks. If you want to checkout the rules to this challenge read the previous post which has them all there. Over the last 2 weeks I have been […]
Its been a while since my last blog post, allot have happened since then. Firstly for all of your looking for the MonoGame tutorials, I’m afraid they are gone :(. The backup database I had was corrupt and the hacker completely ruined the live db. So I’m sorry for those […]