Articles by David Bolton

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  The Opus Codec: New, Free and Open Source

  There's a new codec in town and it sounds good. Developed by a collaboration of the Internet Engineering Task Force, Mozilla, Microsoft (through Skype), Xiph.Org, Octasic, Broadcom and Google, it…
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  Pac-Man Goes Online as Open Source

  It's possibly the most famous arcade game. Pac-Man, launched by NAMCO Bandai in 1980, took the world by storm, generating a wide following, a top-10 hit single and an animated television series t…
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  jQuery's Resig Helps Khan Academy Teach Computer Science

  Six years ago, Khan Academy launched its free educational website, featuring thousands of videos uploaded by users on math, science, finance/economics and the humanities. This month, the not-for-…
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  Does Web Game Scalability Demand NoSQL?

  The database technology that holds all game variables in a server has are two paths to go down: First, the traditional Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) like MySQL, SQL Server and Po…
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  Inklewriter Is a Great Tool for Creating Interactive Fiction

  Fancy yourself a writer, more than a software game developer? A UK company called Inkle may help you bridge both worlds, and award you money to do it. But first, let’s get into the "bridging both…
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  Meteor's A Promising Platform for Web, Game Development

  What's Meteor? Besides a company that just received an $11.2 million investment by Andreessen Horowitz and Matrix Partners? Basically, it's a platform for developing Web applications -- including…
• How to Outsource Your Game Development

  As a well-paid developer in a country that has seen many jobs travel overseas, you wouldn't expect me to be a fan of outsourcing, but I am. First, outsourcing doesn't always mean the work goes of…
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  Zynga's Legal Woes Mount

  Electronic Arts on Friday filed suit against Zynga claiming it ripped off EA's The Sims Social in producing its new game The Ville. The EA copyright lawsuit is the latest legal woes for the popul…
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  Teach Your Robot To Kick Ass

  For some reason, in their psyche, many programmers love to pit their code against others. I’m not talking about programming reviews, but rather virtual arenas where programmable entities like bot…
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  Google PlayN Takes Some of the Pain Out of Game Development

  Google's PlayN covers broadly similar territory to the multi-platform programming language Haxe, but instead of using a Pascal-like language (Actionscript3) as Haxe does, it uses Java. And now, i…