They also developed their very own cross-platform SDK targeting operating systems such as Android, Bada, iOS, PC/Win32 to name a few.

Today they are about to release one of their beloved production Shogun: Rise Of The Renegade, a shoot-them-up inspired by japanese arcade games of the 90′s.


That means: bullet patterns, huge bosses, massive weapons, scoring, sweat and a lot of coffee green tea!

Wanna graze?

This game is a « tribute to the old-school manic shooters but enhanced with a modern, touch based game-interface and easy to read graphics. »

You can expect a gameplay in the spirit of the legendary Treasure games (Radiant Silvergun, Ikaruga) and Cave (DoDonPachi, Espgaluda), where you can absorb and store energy (from enemies bullets) and convert it for the game’s special weapons/options.

Shogun: Rise Of The Renegade is available on iOS (universal version!), Android & Bada, and fully compatible with iPad Arcade Cabinet, iCade!

The application is FREE to download with the first level, and the other levels are unlockable through in-app purchase for a schweet price!

Whatever happens, Judgement Day, Apocalypse, End of the world, The Quickening, Armageddon,… you name it, the mayan calendar ends December 21, 2012.

Against all those predictions, one solution to keep a healthy mind and have your feet on the ground, a free printable calendar in PDF format featuring the only quote you need to know to survive :

If anything goes wrong in 2012, Desmond Hume will be my constant.

In exchange, we just ask you to post a Tweet or a Facebook share about it.

See you in another life, brothers.

Prototyping a match-three game? Building a mock-up of a Tetris-like game?

Well, don’t look further, this new royalty free content pack is for you : « Puzzlegames volume 1 »

This pack features 98 sprites + 1 board/background dedicated to all puzzle games with match-3 gameplay, Tetris-like and so-on.

Royalty Free Content Packs: 1835 royalty free sprites + 4 backgrounds and counting!

More than a game, Zen Stones HD is an addictive puzzle game that allows you to practice your logic and be zen at the same time.

Match different color stones by shooting them towards the center of the playing field. Grab all the fun bonuses and make it to the highest levels possible to become a Zen Guru!

Zen Stones HD is $9.99 at the App Store, however, players can obtain it for free at the Mac Games and More website (how cool is that!). The iPad version of Zen Stones HD costs 99 cents.

You are looking for placeholder graphics to prototype your game?
You need to quickly build a mock-up because a picture is worth a thousand words?
Your graphic designer is reported missing and you’re stuck with your project?

Now you can relax! Royalty Free Content Packs is the place to download affordable stock art and many other ready-to-use graphics related to game development for both commercial and personal productions.


The Boardgames packs vol. 1 & vol. 2 contain :

Also available and FREE of charge, two content packs full of badges and world flags.

Royalty Free Content Packs: 1737 royalty free sprites + 3 backgrounds and counting!

Throw Up is a puzzle / arcade game loosely inspired by Quarth released in 1989 by video game veteran Konami, where you need to shoot on shapes to create rectangles.

The gameplay may sound very easy at first but you will discover that the progression is quite difficult indeed, and you will play over again to beat your best score (and challenge your friends via Facebook and Twitter).

Get your frustrations out of your system and Throw Up. Throw Up could and should be your next game addiction where bigger is definitely better as you throw up square blocks of fire to create huge rectangles. Dare to complete all levels if you’re good enough but to tell you the truth, it’s more about your enormous score…

Be there or be square

Throw Up, a freeware game developed by Mac Games and More, graphics by Naaty Design (it’s us, yay! \o/) and sound/music by Audiobank.fm available for Mac, Windows and iPad soon.

Fellow developers, you may be interested in reading Development Post Mortem for Throw Up, an Arcade style Game for Mac and PC – by Patrice Krysztofiak and note that the entire source code is available as open source.

Il y a quelques années, Yamo, de son vrai nom Julien Moya, avait constitué un guide réunissant des conseils pratiques issus de son expérience personnelle, le Kit de Survie du Créatif.

Répondant à l’appel d’un éditeur, le site a finalement donné naissance à un livre Profession Graphiste indépendant.

Comme le précise l’avant-propos du bouquin, ce n’est pas seulement un guide sur les procédures et les formalités mais une méthode et un point de vue sur le métier.

Qu’on se le dise, vous ne trouverez pas mieux dans le domaine.

Tout est expliqué dans les moindres détails, un concentré d’information traité sans langue de bois.

En lisant le sommaire, vous aurez une idée de l’étendu des sujets traités : la motivation et la préparation du projet aux réalités du métier, les différents statuts fiscaux et sociaux, la notion de droits d’auteur, la pratique quotidienne du métier avec ces aspects commerciaux et autres obstacles et pièges à fuir.

A noter également que chaque fin de chapitre est suivi d’interview d’acteurs du secteur.

Débutant ou en quête d’information avant de se lancer dans la grande aventure du freelance, ce livre sera votre bible, et il regorge autant d’information pour les indépendants déjà installés (et pas seulement pour les graphistes), idéal pour se remettre en question.

Incontournable, on vous dit!

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Titre / Auteur : profession graphiste independant / Julien Moya (associé à Eric Delamarre)
Éditeur : Eyrolles
Publication : Mai 2010
Format : Broché: 256 pages
ISBN : 978-2212126709

Brad is an archeologist who has travelled the four corners of the globe in search of lost cities and legendary objects. After discovering and investigating a mysterious talisman, he is thrown back in time and must fight off waves of attacking metallic balls to restore the talisman and find his way home.

Brad Mitchum is lost in time and he doesn’t see the funny side.

Shoot the bouncing balls:

Brad Mitchum – Lost in Time is a challenging arcade game including 3 high action game modes:

 - Story: main quest featuring cinematic sequences and progressive difficulty through 5 worlds;
 - Pure: an arcade classic mode;
 - X-Trem: a special extra-difficulty mode with combo systems for hardcore players.

Developed by Angel Software and Naaty Design, using BitRabbit’s RabbitFactory cross platform middleware, Brad Mitchum – Lost In Time is available for every feature phone and smartphone running bada OS (Wave, Wave II, Wave 525, Wave 533, Wave 575, Wave 723). Offering true retro gameplay and visuals, it will provide several hours of fun and engaging gameplay.

The smartphone version of Brad Mitchum – Lost In Time can be found here
http://www.samsungapps.com/topApps/topAppsDetail.as?productId=G00000717703

or here for the feature phone version
http://www.samsungapps.com/topApps/topAppsDetail.as?productId=G00000660058

Other versions for iOS, Intel AppUp, Android, GameTree TV and Symbian will be released in a near future.

A trailer for Brad Mitchum – Lost In Time can be viewed here
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcaf4t_brad-mitchum-lost-in-time_videogames

For more information and screenshots : bradmitchum.naaty-design.com

Brad Mitchum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000142403847

About BitRabbit:
BitRabbit is a game developer based in Dublin, incorporated in 2004. BitRabbit was amongst the first mobile game developers to have native Symbian and Windows Mobile distributed Over The Air by 1-tier carriers like Orange, KTF or T-Mobile (back in 2005). We also develop and licence a true cross platform middleware, the RabbitFactory, highly optimized and very friendly to use. With a unique source code, deployment can be done on Windows (XP, Vista and 7), MacOS X, iOS, Android, Bada and Symbian. BitRabbit is also a work for hire studio, with some high profile porting jobs like Platypus (Astraware) or Azada TM (Big Fish Games).
More info can be found online at http://www.bitrabbit.net or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/BitRabbit.

The main concept is to compress each frame of an entire film in one pixel wide and accumulate them side by side into a single picture.

As a result, we get the whole colour palette (all the dominant colours of each shot actually) compressed in a bar code.

Sometimes you can even spot on the very right of the picture the end credits sequence, dark background with white pixels.

Although the idea is nothing new, if you are nuts about colours, this is a real feast.

More than 130 movies have been processed and prints are also available here.