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- 3. Mad Hat Games • We develop mobile free2play games
- 4. Mad Hat Games • We develop mobile free2play games • Programmers have strong C++ background
- 5. Mad Hat Games • We develop mobile free2play games • Programmers have strong C++ background • Artists have strong Flash background
- 6. Engine
- 8. Engine Framework • Written in C++
- 10. Engine Framework • Written in C++ • Built on top of Marmalade SDK
- 13. Sweet • Develop on Windows (Visual Studio) or Mac (XCode)
- 14. Sweet • Develop on Windows (Visual Studio) or Mac (XCode) • One click deploy to iOS, Android, BADA, Blackberry, Simbia n, Win Phone 8, LG TV, Desktop (Mac, Windows)
- 15. Sweet • Develop on Windows (Visual Studio) or Mac (XCode) • One click deploy to iOS, Android, BADA, Blackberry, Simbia n, Win Phone 8, LG TV, Desktop (Mac, Windows) • Simulator (!)
- 16. Bitter TOO MANY THINGS TO FIT ONE SLIDE
- 17. Bitter Build system doesn’t play well with JDK 7 (Android SDK issue)
- 18. Bitter Build system doesn’t play well with JDK 7 (Android SDK issue) Can be sort of fixed though decompiling build system and manual patching
- 19. Bitter Bundles OLD stlport No Visual Studio debug visualizers support
- 20. Bitter Multithreading problems: Memory can be freed only from thread it was allocated in. Enjoy!
- 21. Bitter Network problems: One failed request can hang your application
- 22. Bitter Network problems: One failed request can hang your application Workaround: Have no more then one request at a time
- 23. Bitter Network problems: One failed request can hang your application Workaround: Turn off some optimisations for Marmalade internal multitasking features
- 25. Bitter Dependencies: You need IwUtil for tracing and it depends on a whole lot of stuff (libjpg, libpng, zlib, etc.)
- 26. Bitter Sometimes updates randomly break stuff: • Problems with ATI cards on Simulator • Appending ‘n’ to HTTP request body • Regressions • etc.
- 27. Bitter Virtually no support Bugs can be ignored for months
- 28. Bitter • Video playback problems • Native UI and Input problems • Things I don’t remember
- 29. Sour Memory management: Marmalade allocates one continuous chunk of memory from system. Replaces malloc/new. Have to write your own memory allocator on top of one provided by marmalade.
- 31. Sour No debugging on device Logging is your friend
- 32. Conclusion Was it worth it?
- 33. Conclusion Be ready to reimplement stuff (we reimplemented facebook, music, sound and filesystem extensions, heavily modified others)