About: shawn

Often when making games, or even applications, you’ll want to create an app that only respects Landscape orientation, and not portrait. AIR for iOS has a fairly big issue when it comes to making a landscape only app: When setting an app to Landscape, it will only display in the...

We’re happy to announce the official launch of SnowBomber.ca, check out the awesome launch trailer, and some early screens here: http://www.snowbomber.ca/...

Lately I’ve been reading quite a few articles about Android Market, and whether or not you can really make money on it. As an independent AIR Developer, who has quite a bit of experience (a whopping 12 mths!) I thought I would weigh in, and shed some light on the...

With all the mis-information out there regarding Flash, HTML5 and iOS, I thought it would be interesting to to a proper comparison between the two. Specifically, I’m interested in measuring performance of Flash against HTML5 Canvas on iOS, to see which is fastest.  This will give us a good idea of...

After my last benchmarks, I thought it might be interesting to do a measure of how advanced transformations (scale, alpha, rotation) affect GPU mode, vs what we are normally used to in CPU Mode. In this benchmark, I do a simple sprite rendering test. One version applies alpha between .2...