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The Raspberry Pi is targeted squarely at enthusiasts (which, granted, is probably most people here). It comes without an operating system, any storage, a case, or even a power supply. This is a huge,…

Absolutely. At Game Closure, one of the foremost features of our SDK is our cross platform (all Android devices as well as iOS) engine.

There are some new devices (I'm looking at a Huawei M835 running 2.1) that don't have 2.0 support. As for "OpenGL is hard" - I think a major point here is that Apple has made it far less so. Because …

Another area that can be quite tricky is games. Most (but not all) Android phones being produced today support OpenGL 2.0 - even so, there are lots of tricky differences. The obvious one is different …

This seems like it will be great for Light Table and other such systems. It will be much easier to do the incremental compile//show results on incomplete and in-progress files if type errors can be i…

WebRTC[1] seems to be the perfect platform for these sorts of things. It's in Chrome dev channel / Firefox Alpha right now. [1] http://www.webrtc.org/ …

Yep, I just bought it for my girlfriend's Kindle. We've been talking about how computers work lately - this seems like a great supplement. I'm sort of curious to read it, too.

It's worth mentioning that, since Android 2.3, you can make what's called a Native Activity[1] and circumvent Java entirely (as far as code you write goes). It still runs in the Dalvik VM but you don'…

For Mozilla, the interesting stuff is here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/AreWeFunYet The current status of sound, gamepad, fullscreen, and other important game-related APIs as well as JavaScrip…

There are various C# solutions for frontend web development. SharpKit[1] is probably the most mature. [1] http://sharpkit.net/

Apple doesn't let you download anything (apps, movies) bigger than 50mb over a cellular connection.

Firefox Mobile supports WebGL on Android. With a little work, UIWebviews on iOS (4.2+) support WebGL.[1] [1] http://atnan.com/blog/2011/11/03/enabling-and-using-webgl-on... …

The first time you get a spreadsheet that you can't open from a lawyer or accountant or send a spreadsheet that "doesn't work", it'll be worth it to have used Excel. There's more than enough hassles i…

How about loading the gplus:// link in a hidden iframe. Then continue to load the page in the browser. If they have the app installed, it will redirect, otherwise the page will just load in the brow…

Combining this with emscripten ( http://www.emscripten.org ) would probably be quite doable and very cool.

Try naming the gzip file something else, like .js.jgz. Safari automatically opens many archive types, including, I believe, gzip.

I think this is a really important point: >Don't worry about framerate/performance until you absolutely must. On more than one occasion, we dirtied up our game's logic with slight optimization twe…

That's certainly not your normal startup fare. Where's the ramen or pizza?

Unfortunately the fix for this bug: https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/767 didn't seem make it in. It is in 0.5.0pre though, and I've found it quite useful.…

Since they added the Games section, Kickstarter has been flooded with game projects. A small portion of them are successfully funded. It seems that Kickstarter alone isn't enough to get funding - put…

Game Closure - Palo Alto, CA - Software Engineer Game Closure makes JavaScript/HTML5 games run on all mobile and browser platforms. We are funded by A-list angel investors and VCs and won’t stop until…

When I see something in "quotes" or quotes , I usually look to the end to see the attribution before reading it.

Game Closure - Palo Alto CA. Have you built your own sweet HTML5 game? At Game Closure, we are building a cross-platform HTML5-based gaming SDK (iOS, Android, and browser for now). Shoot us an email a…

Haskell in Space ( http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.91.... ) [PDF] is a good writeup of simple game development in Haskell. Here's the course page, as well: http://www.informa…

Have you built your own sweet HTML5 game? At Game Closure, we are building a cross-platform HTML5-based gaming SDK (iOS, Android, and browser for now). Shoot us an email at jobs@gameclosure.com. Locat…

Yes. The SDK will provide apps that you can publish to the Android or iPhone app store.