Crystal Lighting Engine
If you are looking for a Mac demo of FoxyOfJungle’s Crystal Lighting Engine for Game Maker Studio, look no further. Here’s an excerpt from the Extensions Itch.io page: 👀 Are you frustrated by the lack of a feature you want so much? ✅ Crystal offers the most complete and efficient lighting solution for any kind of […]


Mac Boot Up Sound
Apple have recently brought back the Mac boot up sound. If you want to re-enable it on your Mac, open up a Terminal and type: sudo nvram StartupMute=%00Hit Enter and then type your password. Â If you want to turn it off. type the following into Terminal: sudo nvram StartupMute=%01 Hit Enter and then type […]

ataXous prime
About ataXous prime is my take on the arcade classic Asteroids with a few extras. I wanted to make a shoot em up game for a while, so I started a mini project to work out how to use gamepads/controllers in Game Maker Studio. I wanted to do a twin stick shooter, so I had […]

iDef on the Mac & App Stores
It gives me great pleasure to say that iDef is now available on the Mac App Store. iDef is also on the App Store for the iPhone & iPad.

Monty On The Run
Things are settling down with moving in to our new home and getting it how we want it. I have my office looking good and workable. It’s at that point where you are making fine adjustments here and there to make it just right, we are a fussy bunch us coders 😵 or it could […]

The move is on
We were thinking our house move wasn’t going to happen until next year sometime – probably early March or April – as we’d had no promising viewings for around 6 weeks. Then, almost out of the blue, an offer came in. We played the usual bartering game and came to a price that both parties […]

SF Mono Font
I have just migrated to Mac-OS High Sierra, so I’ve had the fun task of re-installing all my applications from scratch. Normally I would have opted for a full Time Machine restore and gone back to how things were but I would have missed out on some new, lovely things that I have found. One […]

I’m still here!
Most of my time at the moment has been dominated by life. My fiancée and I are planning to move so there has been a lot of upheaval and a change to my current priorities. As a result I’ve not had as much time as I would have liked to code recently. We have been […]

Game Over, Man!
Apologies for the quote from Aliens (warning link has mature language)! So, over the last few weeks, I have been working on rationalizing the data tables in the game. When I started this remake, I made a list of jobs that were (SMART) objectives. This approach comes from my project management roles in a previous […]