Articles by David Bolton
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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… -
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… -
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… -
It's Too Early to Kill Off Adobe Flash
Developer Peter Zotov has started a campaign to kill Adobe Flash off sooner rather than later. Some of the reasons he gives include hundreds of security holes, the drain on battery life and the e… -
Google's Occupation of Australia with LEGO
Google is building in Australia with LEGOs. I'm guessing that Build With Chrome originated with some Google developer's 20% time. Perhaps a developer originally from Australia or New Zealand who… -
Once-Promising Game 'Mytholia' May Be on Life Support
I've been playing in Mytholia for about six months and recent problems make me wonder if the game needs CPR. Launched around the start of 2011, Mytholia is a multi player fantasy strategy game th… -
Skyrim Elder Scrolls Heralds a Shift to Freemium
As a self-confessed Skyrim addict, I view the arrival of the freemium online version -- announced at E3 -- with some trepidation. The game is not due out until 2013 but with Skyrim still fresh in… -
Book Review: "Beginning Facebook Apps Development"
Facebook launched its game platform five years ago and the world of casual browser games has never looked back since then. Most Facebook games are still written in Flash, for example, Farmville a…