Captain Backwater is coming to your iPhone/iPad/Android devices (as well as Windows Phone, Blackberry, Playstation Mobile and hopefully OUYA).

Watch the trailer.

This is a quote from the MySql Manual:

The NULL value can be surprising until you get used to it.

And yes, the documentation is right. Yesterday we encountered a strange bug on a project at Gameforge because of a wrong sql statement. Here is what happened.

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Sprite sheets are very important in game development (and they can also be very useful in web development). With the right tool creating them is a no-brainer. » more

Gameforge, the company I’m working for, will release a new browser-based action-RPG very soon, called Hellbreed. » more

One of the best adventure games of all time is without a doubt Lucas Arts’ Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. » more

The Bresenham line algorithm avoids trigonometry and uses integer math to calculate the points of a line, circle or ellipse. » more

Yesterday I started to play around with monkey. A language that allows you to create apps on multiple platforms. » more

Sometimes it is useful if you are able to access fields of a struct or class as an array. » more

If you have functions with lots of parameters you should consider using a struct or class and pass the parameters by reference. » more

When Defender Of The Crown was released in 1986 it had the best graphics ever seen in a home computer game. » more