Today’s blog post started out as a comment on What’s Wrong with Ontario Colleges. I share Ryan’s general frustration with how Ontario’s colleges are failing to serve either their students or our industry.
I’ve had my share of experiences with…
For the past few years zinc Roe has supported a number of charities. It’s part of being a good corporate citizen. Everyone on our team puts forward the name of one charity to give to. It’s a great chance to…
Just in time for the holidays, we now have three more Tickle Tap Apps available for download on the iTunes App Store!
Field Flier is a highly imaginative app that’s jam-packed with all-original (and quite wonderful!) illustrations, animations, music and sound…
Color Collector, the playful preschool color quest, is coming soon to the iTunes App Store! This inventive app uses iPhone camera, and it makes it exciting for children to discover colors wherever they are. See Color Collector in action!
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I had some time to take a look at what Adobe Labs has been up to and got caught up on Stratus. Stratus is a (currently free) service Adobe provides that enables peer 2 peer communication between multiple instances of…
Hurrah! The first three apps in our Tickle Tap App series are now available for download on the iTunes App Store. Sound Shaker is a sound-making designed for preschoolers, but so far it’s a hit among children of all ages. (You know something is…
With news of the Ontario government using the lure of $250+ million in incentives to bring UbiSoft to Toronto there is talk in the air about government support for the gaming industry. Ryan at Untold summarizes things well in this…
Finally got around to posting some walkthroughs of our Zimmer Twins iPhone games: Flying Furball, Stunt Wagon, Snack Attack. You’ll find links to all three games on the App Store on our iPhone App page.
The follow-up to Arctic Shuffle is nearing completion. We have rebuilt Arctic Shuffle to take advantage of Box2d, openGL and in-app purchases. The result is a game that is faster, smoother and more extensible. We’ve also managed to add in…
For the next version of Arctic Shuffle, we’re using Open GL to speed things up. One problem we’re run into along the way is strange artifacts in textures smaller than 64 pixels by 64 pixels. After a lot of head…