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[Serapth]

'bit of a necro, but I wrote a book on programming for PlayStation Mobile.

It was a rather enjoyable experience, I think I'll write more.

I bought it now in order to safe my time collecting all the puzzle pieces. Hope you did a good job on that but it will surely help

Awesome, hope you enjoy it.  Please read past the first chapter, it's easily the worst.

[J-Snake]

Hehe, you could surely do it better, but you are lucky it is nothing fundamentally new to me. I did opengl on low level already. But personally it helps having access to some of your experience in one place. It will certainly be of help here and there. For my current game Ps Vita is a good portion of my hope, along with some pc-portals and potentially xblig.

[Serapth]

For anyone interested in PlayStation Mobile development and who like free stuff,  I am currently running a giveaway for a few e-book copies of my book.  You pretty much just have to post a comment with a way I can get back to you if you win.

[InfiniteStateMachine]

posted about that on my g+, twitter etc

[Serapth]

Nice, thanks.

I posted your tutorials earlier by the way, by the rating, I believe they were popular.

[InfiniteStateMachine]

Ah sweet thanks very much for that

[Ouren]

Inside Baseball—
Sorry about the huge link!
http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/Community-Lounge/Our-game-was-rejected-Magic-Planet-Snack-%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B8%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%83%8D%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%82%B9%E3%83%8A%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF/td-p/18830094

[J-Snake]

That sucks for sure. I found it hard to accept "if it sucks on everything except the vita, so be it". But now it seems confirmed. That is why I wanted the xperia play. I hope if it performs well on it then it is accepted.

It is just a short function to compute the matrix for proper screen-scaling, like I am already doing in xna. So getting the frame in bounds shouldn't be a problem. Or is the problem mainly the performance-inconsistencies? Would like to know if you have some info on it.

[Ouren]

There should be a way to code the thing to adapt to other hardware, but we were totally uninformed about the fact that PSM does not scale by itself, or that we had to write special code for it. We currently have code specifically for 960x544 sized screen for movement. The entire game is built around that res.

Also, no where in the documentation does it say that you need to do any of this.

I've tried the game at the "tablet" resolution, the game seems to run way faster because there are more pixels, but also the simulator sucks-ass because I'm 100% sure the game doesn't look or handle like that on the real hardware. There's no way to test it without buying a ton of separate devices.


This is not O.K.

[J-Snake]

You should set a fixed framerate yourself. I don't think that particular point is the fault of the sdk/simulator.

[Ouren]

You should set a fixed framerate yourself. I don't think that particular point is the fault of the sdk/simulator.

Never said framerate.

[InfiniteStateMachine]

faster != framerate


I replied to your thread. I totally agree. It's not just a resolution issue, it's also an input issue. One game I'm working on now would SUCK with a virtual onscreen controller.

edit: been on vacation the last little while. added your skype in regards to the other thread.

[J-Snake]

If not the game-loop then the scaling is wrong, it is stretched not with respect to the aspect ratio.

[J-Snake]

One game I'm working on now would SUCK with a virtual onscreen controller.

May be that is acceptable for them, not handling resolution properly is far worse I would expect; may be the main reason why they rejected ouren's game.

[InfiniteStateMachine]

I wasn't speaking in respect to ourens game. I was venting about another reason why there should be targeted devices when you publish. 

[J-Snake]

It's a long known story onscreen controllers do suck, also for my current game.

[InfiniteStateMachine]

Well they have at least acknowledged they are considering vita only publishing. Hopefully we get an update from the PSM team soon.

[Ouren]

On Monday, I'm going to make that happen.
With phone calls.

[InfiniteStateMachine]

phone calls! That's next level

Seriously good luck though. They have the right idea but we need to keep hammering them. The vita is an amazing handheld. It shouldnt be held back this way.

[Ouren]

Sony waives fee on PlayStation Mobile development

As a PSM developer already, and someone who thought that fee was a poor choice after the beta, I'm thrilled. If you're new to PSM and need some feedback or some help, please contact me on twitter. Let's talk!