Developers who want to make games for the Xperia Play and happen to be visual learners are in luck. Sony Ericsson has announced the availability of training videos that are designed to help everyone get started and pick up some valuable skills. The videos are available through design3, a game development portal. Unfortunately, a subscription’s
Zipline Games, a new mobile games company, has announced the first beta of its Moai game development platform. Moai offers mobile game developers a open-source SDK for developing IOS and Android games in Lua with all the features and performance of native development. Moai Cloud expands the Lua heritage with flexible hosting and scalable cloud
Here’s some happy news to end the week on: MegaZebra, a developer that specializes in social games, has raised a lot of money. Doughty Hanson Technology and Kizoo Technology Ventures announced yesterday that they’ve made a significant investment. Unfortunately, the exact details haven’t been disclosed, so we can’t say convert the deal into a specific
Tapjoy, a distribution and monetization platform for application developers, has announced a new way for independent developers to turn their social mobile and tablet games into profitable titles. Tapjoy will help fund the growth of early-stage and pre-launch games by leveraging the company’s distribution and monetization platform and by investing its capital and resources to
Three companies known as Joyplay, Kooky Panda, and New Game Town are almost sure to be holding celebrations today. MocoSpace announced this morning that the firms are the first three groups to be selected for its $1 million HTML5 Mobile Game Developer Fund. That means the firms will receive free marketing support in order to
Mobile social gaming platform Scoreloop is launching “Go Android,” a partnership program designed to help iOS developers bring their games to Android. This new initiative from Scoreloop offers eligible developers the ability to reach a new audience without the time and resourcing hassle that comes along with porting. “We’re providing real value for developers, not
Many people would agree that iOS developers who have ignored Android so far have missed a big opportunity. The upside, however, is that they remain eligible to benefit from a new $100 million fund (called Fund9) established by OpenFeint and The9. OpenFeint and The9 want top developers to port their games to Android, and the
Motorola has announced it is investing in Moblyng, a developer and publisher of cross-platform, HTML5-based games for mobile devices and social networks. Moblyng games have been published for Android, Facebook, iOS and WebOS platforms and have been downloaded more than 9 million times. Moblyng is known for titles including m:Racing and Dungeon Quest for the
Fair warning: we’re not actually suggesting that anyone cross a company with a market cap of about $194 billion. But developers who do a lot of work related to the Android operating system might be interested to know that an Android Developers Union has taken shape. A blog devoted to the cause appeared earlier this
Digital Distributor Impulse has announced new features designed to enable developers to add “free to play” type features to their PC games. The beta releases of its upcoming game developer platform SDK, Impulse Reactor, scheduled in March, will include an in-game store experience, feature unlocking, and downloadable content management all in a developer portal. “The
