Archive

2018  2

May  1

Dealing Cards

May 23, 2018 · 6 min · Noel Llopis

March  1

Sometimes You Have To Let Go

March 15, 2018 · 4 min · Noel Llopis

2017  10

October  1

Lasting Legacy Rulebook

October 31, 2017 · 8 min · Noel Llopis

July  1

Isomorphism As a Game Design Tool

July 13, 2017 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

June  1

Lasting Legacy Dev Update #3: UI Improvements

June 13, 2017 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

May  1

Using SQLite to Organize Design Data

May 16, 2017 · 9 min · Noel Llopis

April  2

Lasting Legacy Dev Update #2: Head of the Family and Legacy

April 18, 2017 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

Lasting Legacy Dev Update #1

April 12, 2017 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

March  1

What Kind of Game is Lasting Legacy?

March 23, 2017 · 4 min · Noel Llopis

January  3

The Feelings of Lasting Legacy

January 27, 2017 · 6 min · Noel Llopis

Announcing: Lasting Legacy

January 18, 2017 · 4 min · Noel Llopis

Game Development Income

January 2, 2017 · 2 min · Noel Llopis

2016  3

December  1

Most Influential Games (on Me)

December 28, 2016 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

January  2

Best Board Games of 2015

January 19, 2016 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

State of the Blog

January 8, 2016 · 3 min · Noel Llopis

2015  1

January  1

Noel’s Best Board Games of All Time - 2014 Edition

January 4, 2015 · 14 min · Noel Llopis

2014  1

January  1

Best Board Games of 2013

January 12, 2014 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

2013  4

August  1

Luck In Games

August 6, 2013 · 11 min · Noel Llopis

July  1

Board Games: My New (Old) Love

July 1, 2013 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

May  1

Why Am I Making Games?

May 3, 2013 · 6 min · Noel Llopis

April  1

Why Are You Making Games?

April 1, 2013 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

2012  4

July  1

Porting My Game Code To Mac OS

July 5, 2012 · 6 min · Noel Llopis

May  1

What The Rovio Deal With Casey’s Contraptions Means To Me

May 11, 2012 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

January  2

Office Space

January 16, 2012 · 3 min · Noel Llopis

Quick Tip: Working With Shaders On iOS

January 6, 2012 · 4 min · Noel Llopis

2011  27

December  4

Big Displays: The Good, The Shiny, and The Ugly

December 23, 2011 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

iCloud Demystified

December 22, 2011 · 9 min · Noel Llopis

Trying Out Multisampling On iOS

December 16, 2011 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

View Controller Notification Changes on iOS5

December 9, 2011 · 3 min · Noel Llopis

November  2

My Next Game

November 19, 2011 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

Designing Good Free-To-Play Games

November 15, 2011 · 4 min · Noel Llopis

September  3

Duplicating Launchboard Wobble

September 30, 2011 · 3 min · Noel Llopis

Xcode 4 Trials and Tribulations

September 22, 2011 · 10 min · Noel Llopis

Quick Notes On Lion

September 21, 2011 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

August  2

URL Shorteners In Under Two Minutes

August 26, 2011 · 4 min · Noel Llopis

Analytics For iOS Games

August 25, 2011 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

July  3

Casey’s Contraptions Postmortem

July 26, 2011 · 22 min · Noel Llopis

One Price Does Not Fit All

July 24, 2011 · 2 min · Noel Llopis

Good Things Take Time

July 1, 2011 · 6 min · Noel Llopis

June  3

Writing Reusable Code

June 21, 2011 · 13 min · Noel Llopis

My Fear of Middleware

June 17, 2011 · 6 min · Noel Llopis

The Making Of Casey’s Contraptions

June 14, 2011 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

May  3

Casey’s Contraptions on the Media

May 23, 2011 · 2 min · Noel Llopis

Making Contraptions

May 18, 2011 · 9 min · Noel Llopis

The Curious Case of Casey and The Clearly Deterministic Contraptions

May 13, 2011 · 8 min · Noel Llopis

April  1

The Business of iPhone and iPad App Development

April 11, 2011 · 4 min · Noel Llopis

March  1

All It Needs Is Love

March 18, 2011 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

February  3

Snappy Touch Picked As Top 50 Developer

February 21, 2011 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

Finding the Loose Change

February 15, 2011 · 4 min · Noel Llopis

Flower Garden Featured For Valentine’s Day!

February 10, 2011 · 2 min · Noel Llopis

January  2

Casey’s Contraptions Weekly Update (Jan 7)

January 7, 2011 · 3 min · Noel Llopis

Data-Oriented Design Now And In The Future

January 4, 2011 · 14 min · Noel Llopis

2010  45

December  2

2010: Living The Dream

December 31, 2010 · 3 min · Noel Llopis

Jigsaw Guru For The Windows Phone 7 Postmortem

December 23, 2010 · 11 min · Noel Llopis

November  3

Sleep-Deprived Reflections On The 360iDev Game Jam

November 12, 2010 · 6 min · Noel Llopis

The Power Of In-App Purchases

November 9, 2010 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

Chronicle Of A Failed Experiment

November 4, 2010 · 6 min · Noel Llopis

October  6

Casey’s Contraptions Weekly Update (Oct 29)

October 29, 2010 · 3 min · Noel Llopis

360iDev: The Conference You Can’t Miss

October 28, 2010 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

Start Pre-allocating And Stop Worrying

October 25, 2010 · 13 min · Noel Llopis

Casey’s Contraptions And The IGF

October 21, 2010 · 6 min · Noel Llopis

Games, Resources, And XCode

October 14, 2010 · 6 min · Noel Llopis

Life In The Top 100 And The Google App Engine

October 7, 2010 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

September  5

Communicating With Players

September 30, 2010 · 6 min · Noel Llopis

My Standing Desk Experiment

September 24, 2010 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

Lag: The Bane Of Touch Screens

September 16, 2010 · 8 min · Noel Llopis

Google App Engine As Back End For iPhone Apps

September 9, 2010 · 10 min · Noel Llopis

Reconsidering Version Control

September 2, 2010 · 8 min · Noel Llopis

August  5

Growing, Indie Style

August 26, 2010 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

Customizable Color Sections With OpenGL ES 1.1

August 19, 2010 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

Forget Length. Give Me Awesome

August 17, 2010 · 3 min · Noel Llopis

Prototyping: You’re (Probably) Doing It Wrong

August 12, 2010 · 8 min · Noel Llopis

Indie Project Management For One: Tools

August 5, 2010 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

July  7

IAP Bundles: More Than Just Good Deals

July 29, 2010 · 4 min · Noel Llopis

Mock Objects: Friends Or Foes?

July 26, 2010 · 12 min · Noel Llopis

Remote Game Editing

July 22, 2010 · 10 min · Noel Llopis

Nitty Gritty Unit Testing

July 18, 2010 · 13 min · Noel Llopis

The Const Nazi

July 15, 2010 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

The Power of Free (aka The Numbers Post #3)

July 8, 2010 · 8 min · Noel Llopis

When Is It OK Not To TDD?

July 1, 2010 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

June  4

Paying Off: The Story Behind Unearthed

June 30, 2010 · 8 min · Noel Llopis

Managing Data Relationships

June 27, 2010 · 13 min · Noel Llopis

The Always-Evolving Coding Style

June 25, 2010 · 8 min · Noel Llopis

Increase Your App Ratings On The App Store

June 14, 2010 · 6 min · Noel Llopis

May  5

Flower Garden Selected As An Apple Staff Favorite Across Europe

May 14, 2010 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

Making A Living (Comfortably) On The App Store (aka The Numbers Post #2)

May 14, 2010 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

Going The iPad Way: All You Wanted to Know About Creating Universal Apps

May 10, 2010 · 10 min · Noel Llopis

Flower Garden Is Free This Weekend To Celebrate Mother’s Day!

May 8, 2010 · 2 min · Noel Llopis

Dr. Seuss Lorax Garden Up The Charts

May 2, 2010 · 2 min · Noel Llopis

April  1

OpenGL And UIKit Demo

April 10, 2010 · 2 min · Noel Llopis

March  3

GDC 2010: The Best of Both Worlds: Using UIKit with OpenGL

March 13, 2010 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

GDC Time!

March 7, 2010 · 2 min · Noel Llopis

Flower Garden a Finalist for The 2010 Pocket Gamer Awards for Most Innovative Game!

March 3, 2010 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

January  4

Figuring Out The iPad

January 28, 2010 · 4 min · Noel Llopis

Buy Flower Garden This Wednesday To Help Haiti

January 19, 2010 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

Making A Living (Barely) On The iPhone App Store (aka The Numbers Post)

January 15, 2010 · 11 min · Noel Llopis

Flower Garden Now An Apple Staff Favorite On The App Store Worldwide!

January 12, 2010 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

2009  54

December  6

All About In-App Purchases Part 4: iTunes Connect

December 29, 2009 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

All About In-App Purchases Part 3: Anti-Piracy Measures

December 21, 2009 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

Great Presentation on Data-Oriented Design

December 20, 2009 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

All About In-App Purchases Part 2: Selling The Goods

December 18, 2009 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

All About In-App Purchases Part 1: Displaying Store Items

December 17, 2009 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

Data-Oriented Design (Or Why You Might Be Shooting Yourself in The Foot With OOP)

December 4, 2009 · 25 min · Noel Llopis

October  2

Two Day iPhone OpenGL Class Coming to The Bay Area

October 18, 2009 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

Space in Stereo iPhone Game Jam Postmortem

October 5, 2009 · 10 min · Noel Llopis

September  4

360iDev: Cranking Up Floating Point Performance To 11

September 29, 2009 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

GDC Austin 2009: Squeezing Every Drop Of Performance Out Of The iPhone

September 16, 2009 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

From Full to Lite in Under An Hour

September 14, 2009 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

At The Mercy of Apple’s Whim

September 1, 2009 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

August  6

iSimulate: A Great Add-On For The iPhone Simulator

August 28, 2009 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

Early Bird Registration Ending For Denver OpenGL Class And 360iDev

August 27, 2009 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

Getting Started With Shaders On The iPhone 3GS

August 24, 2009 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

Dirty Coding Tricks

August 21, 2009 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

Handling App Store and LinkShare Links

August 15, 2009 · 3 min · Noel Llopis

Environment Mapping Demo With OpenGL ES 1.1

August 1, 2009 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

July  4

Targeting 2.x With 3.0 Features. Trouble Ahead.

July 31, 2009 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

Balancing Flowers

July 29, 2009 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

Teaching a Two-Day OpenGL iPhone Class. Register Now!

July 23, 2009 · 2 min · Noel Llopis

Flower Garden Coverage and Interview on Spanish TV

July 21, 2009 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

June  2

A Huge Leap Forward: Graphics on The iPhone 3G S

June 20, 2009 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

Unveiling The App Treasures Indie iPhone Game Label

June 5, 2009 · 2 min · Noel Llopis

May  3

Virtual Memory Paging Is The Lazy Man’s Caching Scheme

May 22, 2009 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

Where’d That Memory Go?

May 15, 2009 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

I Want My Memory, Apple!

May 7, 2009 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

April  5

April San Diego iPhone Developers Meet Up

April 16, 2009 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

Interview at The Mobile Orchard Podcast

April 13, 2009 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

Flower Garden Released!

April 11, 2009 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

Flower Garden: In Review

April 9, 2009 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

GDC 2009: iPhone Development: Exploring The New Frontier

April 8, 2009 · 2 min · Noel Llopis

March  4

The Importance Of First Impressions

March 23, 2009 · 4 min · Noel Llopis

San Diego iPhone Developer Gathering This Wednesday

March 17, 2009 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

iPhone Developer Program Gotchas (or what I learned the hard way)

March 11, 2009 · 4 min · Noel Llopis

Becoming Indie: 360iDev Presentation

March 3, 2009 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

February  5

Adding New Development Devices

February 28, 2009 · 4 min · Noel Llopis

Presenting at GDC 2009 on iPhone Development

February 17, 2009 · 2 min · Noel Llopis

The Cat’s Out of The Bag

February 17, 2009 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

Last Objective-C Annoyance: Fixed!

February 10, 2009 · 2 min · Noel Llopis

San Diego iPhone Developers Gathering This Wednesday

February 10, 2009 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

January  13

Remixing OpenGL and UIKit

January 30, 2009 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

Using Multiple OpenGL Views And UIKit

January 30, 2009 · 6 min · Noel Llopis

Tea Time! 1.1 Update Gets Its Way

January 27, 2009 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

Twittering Around

January 27, 2009 · 2 min · Noel Llopis

Speaking at iPhone Conference And A Teaser

January 21, 2009 · 3 min · Noel Llopis

Status: Pending Contract :-(

January 13, 2009 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

Tea Time! Back Up

January 13, 2009 · 2 min · Noel Llopis

The “One Day” iPhone App Experiment

January 12, 2009 · 11 min · Noel Llopis

Tea Time! Available on The App Store Now!

January 9, 2009 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

San Diego iPhone Developer Gathering Next Week

January 8, 2009 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

Break That Thumb For Best iPhone Performance

January 5, 2009 · 3 min · Noel Llopis

iPhone from A Game Developer’s Perspective: The iPhone API

January 5, 2009 · 9 min · Noel Llopis

2009: The Year of The Indie Developer?

January 1, 2009 · 4 min · Noel Llopis

2008  14

December  4

iPhone from A Game Developer’s Perspective: Objective C

December 30, 2008 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

No Rest for The Indies

December 25, 2008 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

Build Server: The Heartbeat of The Project

December 12, 2008 · 13 min · Noel Llopis

Stranger in a Mac Land

December 8, 2008 · 6 min · Noel Llopis

November  3

Get Your Games from Within Fix on The Go

November 17, 2008 · 2 min · Noel Llopis

Feed Yourself

November 15, 2008 · 2 min · Noel Llopis

Brave New iPhone World

November 14, 2008 · 3 min · Noel Llopis

September  2

Bad News for Scons Fans

September 19, 2008 · 3 min · Noel Llopis

Back to The Future (Part 2)

September 15, 2008 · 13 min · Noel Llopis

August  1

Back to The Future (Part 1)

August 22, 2008 · 12 min · Noel Llopis

June  2

The Measure Of Code

June 13, 2008 · 9 min · Noel Llopis

What’s Your Pain Threshold?

June 10, 2008 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

April  1

Stupid C++ Tricks #2: Better Enums

April 14, 2008 · 4 min · Noel Llopis

January  1

LeChimp’s Secret Weapon: Lint

January 15, 2008 · 15 min · Noel Llopis

2007  3

December  1

LeChimp vs. Dr. Chaos

December 24, 2007 · 10 min · Noel Llopis

August  1

Office Tools for Starving Startups

August 13, 2007 · 8 min · Noel Llopis

May  1

Prototyping for Fun And Profit

May 8, 2007 · 12 min · Noel Llopis

2006  6

August  2

Bringing Back The Dream

August 17, 2006 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

Fundamentally Agile

August 8, 2006 · 8 min · Noel Llopis

April  1

A Whirlwind Tour Through GDC 2006

April 6, 2006 · 9 min · Noel Llopis

March  2

UnitTest++ v1.0 Released

March 19, 2006 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

Backwards Is Forward: Making Better Games with Test-Driven Development

March 13, 2006 · 36 min · Noel Llopis

February  1

A Day in the Life

February 6, 2006 · 10 min · Noel Llopis

2005  17

December  1

CppUnitLite2 1.1

December 18, 2005 · 9 min · Noel Llopis

October  2

Are We There Yet? SlickEdit’s C++ Refactoring

October 11, 2005 · 9 min · Noel Llopis

Asserting Oneself

October 3, 2005 · 9 min · Noel Llopis

September  1

The Quest for the Perfect Build System (Part 2)

September 20, 2005 · 17 min · Noel Llopis

August  1

SIGGRAPH 2005 Quick Take

August 7, 2005 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

June  1

The Quest for the Perfect Build System

June 6, 2005 · 17 min · Noel Llopis

May  2

Book Review: Pair Programming Illuminated

May 18, 2005 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

The Winds of Change

May 8, 2005 · 10 min · Noel Llopis

April  2

The Care and Feeding of Pre-Compiled Headers

April 27, 2005 · 12 min · Noel Llopis

GDC 2005: Generation Wrap-Up in San Francisco

April 13, 2005 · 9 min · Noel Llopis

March  1

Stepping Through the Looking Glass: Test-Driven Game Development (Part 3)

March 7, 2005 · 19 min · Noel Llopis

February  4

So Much to See, So Much to Do: Getting the Most out of GDC

February 28, 2005 · 14 min · Noel Llopis

Stepping Through the Looking Glass: Test-Driven Game Development (Part 2)

February 26, 2005 · 17 min · Noel Llopis

Stepping Through the Looking Glass: Test-Driven Game Development (Part 1)

February 20, 2005 · 14 min · Noel Llopis

How Incredible Is Incredibuild?

February 6, 2005 · 11 min · Noel Llopis

January  2

Even More Experiments with Includes

January 26, 2005 · 6 min · Noel Llopis

So You Want to Be a Game Programmer?

January 24, 2005 · 12 min · Noel Llopis

2004  24

December  6

Book Review: Waltzing with Bears

December 31, 2004 · 6 min · Noel Llopis

Exploring the C++ Unit Testing Framework Jungle

December 29, 2004 · 35 min · Noel Llopis

2004 GameTech Report: Game Tech Leadership Summit

December 19, 2004 · 16 min · Noel Llopis

2004 GameTech Report: Creating Believable Characters

December 8, 2004 · 8 min · Noel Llopis

All Work No Play, Makes Jack a Dull Game Developer (Part 2)

December 6, 2004 · 13 min · Noel Llopis

All Work No Play, Makes Jack a Dull Game Developer (Part 1)

December 5, 2004 · 9 min · Noel Llopis

November  3

Book review: Effective STL

November 13, 2004 · 4 min · Noel Llopis

2004 Montréal Game Summit Report

November 7, 2004 · 8 min · Noel Llopis

Agile Game Development: Dealing with Chaos in the Real World

November 7, 2004 · 1 min · Noel Llopis

August  1

Optimizing the Content Pipeline

August 3, 2004 · 19 min · Noel Llopis

July  1

An Afternoon with Subversion

July 13, 2004 · 11 min · Noel Llopis

June  1

Simple Is Beautiful

June 17, 2004 · 13 min · Noel Llopis

May  1

Cowboy Coders and the Hero Programmer Culture

May 14, 2004 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

April  3

Book review: The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World

April 21, 2004 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

Postmortems: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

April 12, 2004 · 13 min · Noel Llopis

My Take on GDC 2004

April 1, 2004 · 9 min · Noel Llopis

March  6

GDC 2004: Software Engineering Roundtable Summary - Session 1

March 31, 2004 · 7 min · Noel Llopis

GDC 2004: Software Engineering Roundtable Summary - Session 2

March 31, 2004 · 6 min · Noel Llopis

GDC 2004: Software Engineering Roundtable Summary - Session 3

March 31, 2004 · 5 min · Noel Llopis

If I Had a Hammer…

March 19, 2004 · 13 min · Noel Llopis

Physical Structure and C++ - Part 2: Build Times

March 10, 2004 · 18 min · Noel Llopis

Physical Structure and C++ - Part 1: A First Look

March 5, 2004 · 11 min · Noel Llopis

January  2

Maintenance, The Hidden Cost of Software

January 3, 2004 · 11 min · Noel Llopis

Must Read Books

January 1, 2004 · 6 min · Noel Llopis

2003  1

December  1

Book review: Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

December 30, 2003 · 5 min · Noel Llopis