The Further Adventures of XBox Live Achievement Bird

Since I know you’ve all been dying to know.. XBox Live Achievement Bird was a bird that tended to hang around the exterior of my house, occasionally making a noise surprisingly similar to the noise made when unlocking an achievement on the XBox 360.  I’ve mentioned him (her?) a few times on my Twitter account,…

Little update

Some debug rendering, testing line of sight calculations (from that central location, drawing lines outwards as far as can be seen).  Think I’ve finally got them working! Anyhow.  Apologies for keeping everyone hanging for so long.  As I’m sure that everybody figured out long ago, the game I’ve been working on is an update of…

A short update

First, I want to apologise for the lack of updates recently.  I’ve been kind of hovering in that state where every night I’m saying, “I’m not quite ready to post an update, but almost.  Surely I’ll have something ready for tomorrow!” (we miss you, Leslie Nielsen)  I promise, a proper update on my game tomorrow.…

And on the topic of unsubtle hints

So I’ve been spending the day alternately coding and preparing for the game development masterclass stuff that I mentioned last week.  I believe that I’m still on track for a “first playable” build by the end of next week. Also, today I played a little Costume Quest, and a little Pinball FX 2.  But only…

Hopefully to help someone else

When I was working on handling changing iPhone orientations, I ran into one major issue which doesn’t appear to have been addressed anywhere on the Internet.  So I figured that I’d post the solution I eventually found here, in the hopes that someone who has this problem in the future will find this blog post…