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How the world looks with different app stores

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on February 19, 2014February 19, 2014

Below are the revenue maps for my apps, from Apple App Store and BlackBerry World. As you can see with Apple the US is king, while with BlackBerry the king is Canada. Hint: Combine the two and you got the whole north america 😉

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Porting my game engine to the Playbook

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on August 22, 2012August 25, 2012

The last few days I am a happy owner of a BlackBerry Playbook. The device was offered to me by RIM (thanks to Luca Filigheddu) in order to port Pop Corny to it. To tell you the truth I never owned a Blackberry device before, not to mention develop for it. It was a totally […]

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Porting your game from iOS to Android

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on August 2, 2012August 2, 2012

So you created a C/C++ game for iOS that gives joy to iPhone and iPad gamers from around the world. How can you deny this joy from all loyal Android users? I can’t, so I had to port Pop Corny to the Android platform. It was a very interesting experience, full of gain as I say, and I […]

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Writing portable code: A process full of gain

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on June 18, 2012

Lately I am spending some of my time into porting my game engine to the Android platform. It is a rather refreshing, interesting, rewarding and also frustrating experience. All at the same time. The process helped me learn new lessons and remember some old ones I had forgot. Getting confortable First of all I realized […]

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Beta testers on Android wanted – Ask inside

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on May 30, 2012

If you follow me online you probably know that the last weeks I have been porting Pop Corny to Android. I can say that it is a great experience and I myself can’t wait to put it out there. I am also going to blog about my experience and will try to provide any valuable […]

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C++ Concurrency and Parallelism

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on May 14, 2012

One of the blessings and curses of C++ is its Standardization Committee. The bureaucrats that steer the language can surely be both. I admit that I have found myself frustrated with the slowness and lag that C++ can have with catching up with progress, but when I think about it I wouldn’t be able to find […]

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My game design hat

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on February 8, 2012February 8, 2012

One of the main traits that an indie developer must cultivate is that of wearing many hats. All indie game develepers will tell you about it, and it is the first thing you will realise when going indie. Wearing many hats is usually the result of small budgets. Small budgets mean less heads, but equal […]

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Predictable garbage collection with Lua

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on July 23, 2011July 20, 2011

In one of my previous posts I talked about how you can make the Lua garbage collector (GC) more predictable in running time. This is a virtue that is highly valued in a GC used in games where you don’t have the luxury of going over you frame time. In that post I described a […]

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From Python to Lua

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on June 25, 2011

(This blog was originaly posted at #AltDevBlogADay) All game developers, sooner or later, learn to appreciate scripting languages. That magical thing that allows for letting others do your job, better scaling of the team, strengthening the game code/engine separation, sandboxing, faster prototyping of ideas, fault isolation, easy parametrization, etc. Every game has to be somehow […]

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Sylphis3D lighting, shadows, physics demonstration

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on April 8, 2011

This is some “memory lane” kind of post. As you probably already know, I am working on an iOS port of Sylphis3d lately and I have been going through some old videos from Sylphis3D. I must admit the feeling is overwhelming. All those nights strugling with algorithms, data structures, broken drivers, experimental scripting… The vibrant community of […]