About: shawn

My FAAD experiment has begun! Get your free copy of PicShop HD if you download before sunday… get em while they’re hot!! http://freeappaday.com/app.php?id=502430343 Next week, when all the numbers have been crunched, I’ll post the results…...

Getting exposure on the iTunes App Store is probably the single hardest thing to do as an indie developer. Generally it comes down to who you know, rather than the quality of your application. If you have a publisher, friends in the press, or venture capital funding, then you are...

[UPDATE] These numbers are old. New numbers have been posted here: http://esdot.ca/site/2012/runnermark-scores-july-18-2012 In this post we’ll use my RunnerMark lib to benchmark the rendering performance of the various Stage3D 2D Engines, and compare them to renderMode=GPU and HaxeNME. Big thanks to Philippe for the Haxe NME port! Now we can...

In an effort to benchmark the various Stage3D 2D Frameworks, I’ve created a small test suite called RunnerMark. It’s hosted on github here, along with a video of it in action: https://github.com/esDotDev/RunnerMark All contributions are more than welcome. If you feel like something can be optimized, or have an entirely...

One thing that has become more and more of an issue in my life are FPS meters. The venerable Mr Doob’s Stats class just does’t cut it anymore… This issue is, on mobile devices, often the FPS meter can create a significant load on your app, skewing your test results....