Author Archives: dan

Captain Skyro now on iOS!

Posted on March 27, 2012 by dan

It’s all ramping up pretty quickly. The game has hit the app store and less than a day later people have picked it up and are playing. No idea on numbers yet but the response is pretty good so far. … Continue reading →

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Captain Skyro for Android performance so far

Posted on March 19, 2012 by dan

Here’s a few links and stats of our coverage for Captain Skyro for Android. Downloads 106 downloads through the Android market 6 ratings Unknown amount of downloads through pirated versions Note: there’s 244,000 results on Google pointing to pirated versions … Continue reading →

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AIR for iOS dev using Windows

Posted on March 19, 2012 by dan

This is a relatively short post to share a few of the most useful code snippets and resources I have found. They cover a few of the trickier ins and outs of building iOS apps on a PC without Xcode. … Continue reading →

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Adobe AIR Native Extensions for iOS

Posted on March 5, 2012 by dan

Lately we have been working on the iOS port of Skyro and it’s going pretty smoothly. It was amazing to have the exact same code from the Android version running on the iPhone within 2 hours. I’ll cover more on … Continue reading →

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Team Pok Pok at Global Game Jam 2012

Posted on January 28, 2012 by dan

Fresh after the release of skyro this week we’ve jumped right in to a new challenge or the 2012 Global Game Jam. We’ve got 48 hours to create something amazing according to a theme the organisers provided. As a nice … Continue reading →

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Share a Coke with Skyro

Posted on November 27, 2011 by dan

With Coke’s new Summer campaign of can with names on them I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to get a free custom made ‘Skyro’ Coke can. The custom cans are only allowed to have your name or your friend’s name … Continue reading →

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A brilliant Skyro themed gift

Posted on November 27, 2011 by dan

A month or so back I received a surprise Skyro themed gift from Sionen. The Skyro character was all hand made by Alexa, the owner of the Etsy shop “TheNerdsNest“.

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Skyro Coverage

Posted on September 27, 2011 by dan

Just a quick round up of the various blogs that have helped seed the Captain Skyro trailer out there: Kotaku: (A pretty good show and tell feature) AppSpy (Some nice commentary on the game around 2:45) Tsumea PocketGamer Tapplayer (Unfortunately … Continue reading →

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Why Dan isn’t the artist

Posted on August 24, 2011 by dan

Being involved in game design and even level design is one thing, but as most developers should know, there’s a large difference between being a game designer and being an artist. The image below is some of my place-holder graphics, … Continue reading →

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AIR for Android Blitting and Scaling

Posted on August 12, 2011 by dan

In the game-play of Skyro for the Android we have a ‘zoom out’ effect to give the player a better look of the world. The Problem In our first attempt to achieve this effect we scaled down the each sprite … Continue reading →

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