Author Archives: Vykthur

About Vykthur

Mobile and Web App Developer and Researcher. Passionate about learning, teaching, and recently - writing.

5 Reasons to Add Scoreloop to your Mobile Game App

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Vykthur

Existing studies frequently identify two significant motivators for game play –  social and self improvement motivations among others. People will play more when they play with others (or feel that they are playing or competing with others) , and when … Continue reading →

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Getting Started with Windows Phone 8 Apps Development

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Vykthur

Source : Dailymobile.net This post covers basic steps to help you get started developing apps for Windows Phone 8.  First I discuss the prerequisites for installation of the development environment and finish up with some common errors I’ve encountered . Its written based … Continue reading →

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Introducing Trivia Monkey – Trivia for Happy People!

Posted on March 15, 2014 by Vykthur

Its March 2014 and in the last couple weeks I have pretty much pushed myself to the limits to get out a new product. Trivia Monkey. Trivia Monkey satisfies multiple aims for me as a developer and academic. Its a … Continue reading →

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Step by Step Guide on How to build your first Slider Puzzle game in Cocos2d for Android – Part 3

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Vykthur

In Part 1 of this tutorial series, you learned about creating a new Cocos2D for android project, adding sprites, scaling and positioning sprites. In Part 2, you learned more about generating and positioning the tiles for the slider puzzle, and … Continue reading →

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Chronicling awesome feedback received over the months . Thanks!

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Vykthur

Photocredit : unknown In this post, I will be collating some select feedback I’v received on some of my posts here on denvycom . These comments are testament to the power of the internet and to the value of sharing … Continue reading →

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Handling Sound in Cocos2D for Android

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Vykthur

Screenshot credits from one of my games – Puzzbox Africa In many games, sound remains a vital component for achieving interactivity. You may need to play short sound clips in response to events e.g when a button is pressed, a … Continue reading →

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Windows 8.1 – How to fix Updates failed, Undoing Changes Error

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Vykthur

Im not sure how often this occurs, but after downloading updates on my new Windows 8.1 installation and restarting, the update process just froze up and windows could not start up. One (costly) solution is to just re-install the operating … Continue reading →

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5 Things to Know Before/While You Learn Laravel (and try to put it on Windows Azure)

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Vykthur

Laravel –   a clean and classy framework for PHP web development. Alert (Article meant for Laravel/OO PHP Framework beginners .. advanced code ninja’s may pass). So I decided to work on a short project that utilizes the client server … Continue reading →

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Present day Youth – Adrift in a Sea of Vanishing Values.

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Vykthur

PhotoCredit : Michael Erhardsson A popular legend says that he walked about in broad daylight with a lantern in a determined but vain search for a virtuous man. His name was Diogenes, a philosopher who lived in Athens in the … Continue reading →

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Step by Step Guide on How to build your first Slider Puzzle game in Cocos2d for Android – Part 2

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Vykthur

In part 1 of the tutorial, we set up the game scene, added a couple of labels to keep track of game status , amount of time elapsed and number of moves. And we made the timer start counting to … Continue reading →

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