Fiaura is a semi-pro gamer & community contributor for many games & loves tanks. She enjoys all aspects of games which includes playing, reviewing & competing!

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Did Microsoft buying Mojang come around because Notch was burned out? Is the problem systemic to independent developers who just love to code?

Plus we respond to your strong feedback regarding privacy & much more!

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Dev Hoopla:

I’m leaving Mojang | notch.net

As soon as this deal is finalized, I will leave Mojang and go back to doing Ludum Dares and small web experiments. If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I’ll probably abandon it immediately.

Unity Technologies weighs its options, including a possible sale of the company

Unity Technologies, the makers of prolific video-game-development engines and tools, is exploring options for its future. One of those options is the possible sale of the company. The asking price is apparently very high — we’ve heard over $1 billion to as high as $2 billion.

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Indie titles get some attention at E3, Amazon launches their music streaming service and starts to play heavy with the movie industry.

Plus the big themes we took away from this years E3 expo, and more!

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Amazon Turns On Prime Music Streaming, Sans Current Hits

Promising over 1 million songs ready for your streaming pleasure, on top of the downloading service that Amazon already offered.

• Amazon Launches Prime Music Service Without Universal Music Group

Because many of the details of Prime Music have been previously reported (BuzzFeed already noted that the service won’t have songs from major labels until they’ve been out for six months; the New York Times and the New York Post have already noted that the service won’t include anything at all from Universal Music Group, the world’s biggest music label) there isn’t a lot more to say.

Amazon Dispute Now Making Movies Harder To Order – Slashdot

— Games —

E3 2014: Microsoft Shows Indie Games Some Love

While they spotlighted all the major AAA titles with long, extended trailer packages and introductions, there were plenty of smaller, indie titles that got some love during the conference as well.

4 Things E3 2014 Is Trying to Tell You t

The big day of press conferences at E3 2014 is now officially behind us, and impressions have been posted about each of them individually, but looking back on an entire day of announcements, what is the overarching message?

E3 2014: The Best Trailers From This Year’s Show

If it’s one thing the games industry knows how to do, it’s how to cut an impressive trailer. Whether they’re full CG or all in-game, the best trailers convey their games’ strengths, tell us what to expect, and most importantly ramp up the hype. Here’s a selection of some of the best game trailers released so far at this year’s E3.

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It’s a Monday holiday episode of the Coder Radio show, so we opened up the Skype lines and officially declare this episode a grab bag of topics!

From the death of JavaScript to Android vs iOS we touch on a list of favorite topics.

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• Unity Technologies Blog » Blog Archive » Unity Native 2D Tools

As part of our Unity 4.3 announcement here at Unite \’13, we\’re thrilled to show off our native support for 2D development. Our users have been making 2D games for many years at this stage, and we felt it was about time we stepped up and acknowledged that fact, and brought native support for Sprites and related 2D workflows to Unity.

JavaScript Here to Stay? Or Near Death?

• Is The Death Of JavaScript Upon Us, Or Is A Universal Language Transformation Underway? | TechCrunch

Today, JavaScript is no longer a startup, and it\’s no longer just startups that are using it. Companies of all sizes and levels of maturity build applications for the browser, and JavaScript is the language they use to build them. The demands that were once placed on languages like C/C++ and Java are now shifting to JavaScript, and that shift is exposing the language\’s limitations: performance and maintainability.

• Surprise! Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web

In 2008, however, Google released Chrome with its V8 JavaScript engine. Around the same time, Apple brought out Safari 4 with its Nitro (née Squirrelfish Extreme) engine. These engines brought something new to the world of JavaScript: high performance achieved through just-in-time (JIT) compilation. V8 and Nitro would convert JavaScript into pieces of executable code that the CPU could run directly, improving performance by a factor of three or more.

Android feels slower than iOS?

• Android Graphics Internals – Stack Overflow

There are two core pieces to Android graphics: SurfaceFlinger and Skia. SurfaceFlinger is Android\’s compositor, used by the window manager to create and display windows (actually called surfaces.) SurfaceFlinger is implemented on top of OpenGL ES 1.x currently and can also use other hardware acceleration techniques when available (MDP, a 2D blitter on the T-Mobile G1, or hardware overlays on the Xoom.)

Each application renders into its windows (or surfaces) using primarily Skia. Skia is Android\’s 2D graphics library. You can also use OpenGL ES 1.x and 2.0 to render into a surface.

Android doesn\’t use DirectFB or X11 or any other existing Linux solution.

• Design and Concepts of Android Graphics

The presentation shows the design concepts about Android Graphics system including SurfaceFlinger, EGL, 2D accelerator, and Binder IPC.

Ouya\’s troubled state:

• 5 Ways the Ouya Game Console Failed – Ouya\’s woes

• Gamasutra: Kris Steele\’s Blog – The Trials of Ouya Porting using MonoGame

Overall it has been a frustrating process porting my game (still not done) that has taken much longer than I had hoped.

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It’s our favorite indie games from the last couple years. Plus the big shake up the Steam Box could bring to the market, if Valve is crushing the Ouya, and why Microsoft and Sony will be forced to adapt.

Plus realistic funding for Indie devs, the new idea of success, and much more!

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• Nehemiah wants to know why I didn’t mention Boost last week re the C++ question

Indie

• Indie Game Dev in 2012

• Ouya VS Steambox

• Why Xbox failed in Japan

• The Xmas Bundle 2.0 – Indie Royale

• Development | Desura

  • Alphafunding for Indie Games

• Steam Greenlight

• Beat Hazard Grosses $2 Million

• Wolfram von Funck (wol_lay) on Twitter

Game Picks:

• Cube World: Gameplay Summary
• Vessel
• LIMBO on Steam
• Galcon 2: Galactic Conquest by Phil Hassey — Kickstarter
• Ndemic Creations
• Mark of the Ninja on Steam
• Trine 2 on Steam

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