Author Archives: Vykthur

About Vykthur

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

Help I’m a Student, How Can I Become a Rockstar Programmer ?

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Vykthur

“Programmers hardly ever get jealous on encountering “beautiful” code. Instead we admire, we complement and promote. In the midst of this flurry of altruistic feelings, we must continually benchmark our proficiency and will ourselves to higher levels of beautiful code … Continue reading →

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New Google Chromebook Validates our USB Charging Design from 5 years ago.

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Vykthur

“Someones project just went commercial” So, I got this line on Skype from a close friend today. He had read an article on Techcrunch  and promptly shared the link with me – “Google Reveals HP Chromebook 11, A $279 Chrome … Continue reading →

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Summary of Blackberry Jam Asia Pre-Conference Training – Gaming Destination

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Vykthur

Pratik Supra .. Blackberry Dev Consultant on Game pad support for BB10 Games. Blackberry Asia Jam Conference Hong Kong For those not familiar with it, Blackberry Jam Conferences  are organised several times each year to provide an opportunity for the … Continue reading →

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How to Slide a Sprite around based on touch/drag input in Cocos2D for Android

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Vykthur

This post is written in response to a question on Part 1 of the Building your first slider puzzle game in Cocos2D for Android. How do you slide/drag a large image sprite around the screen based on touch/drag input ? … Continue reading →

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Step by Step Guide on How to build your first Slider Puzzle game in Cocos2d for Android – Part 1

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Vykthur

In the previous post about setting up cocos2d for android game development, I showed you how to import the cocos2d project into Eclipse and run the sample code included to give an idea of the capabilities/affordances of the Cocos2d game … Continue reading →

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Google Announces Cloud Challenge! $20,000 is the prize !

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Vykthur

Once again, Google is organizing a Coding Challenge to encourage developers from different regions to use their new Cloud APIs in developing innovative web apps! Suffice it to say, the rewards are COOL. And real too. Finalists from each category … Continue reading →

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Setting Up Cocos2d for Blackberry 10 Development

Posted on July 9, 2013 by Vykthur

Note: Below post works very well as of August 2013 with version Cocos2d-x-2.1.4 . In subsequent releases, things might change, but this article should be a good starting point. The Cocos2d project also supports blackberry 10 and here are a … Continue reading →

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Getting ADB to recognize Samsung Galaxy S2 running cyanogenmod 10.1

Posted on July 2, 2013 by Vykthur

… Getting ADB to work on Samsung Galaxy S2 running CyanogenMod 10.1 Android Debug Bridge (adb) is a versatile command line tool that lets you communicate with an emulator instance or connected Android-powered device. It is a client-server program that … Continue reading →

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Setting up Cocos2D for Android, in Eclipse

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Vykthur

… This post is meant to help you set up your first Cocos2D Android Project. Note : The Cocos2D for Android project using in my tutorials are a JAVA port of the Cocos2d-x project written in C/C++ . If you … Continue reading →

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Game Development Using Cocos2d on Android – An Introduction

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Vykthur

… This post is meant to introduce you to game engines and developing 2D games on Android using the Cocos2D Game Engine. Why you should use game engines .. Gaming engines are software frameworks which provide/simplify repeated used features in … Continue reading →

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