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iTGB Accelerometer Physics Game for iPhone and iTouch

Balls Away! is game that uses iTGB and along with chipmunk to handle the physics. All game control is handled by the accelerometer. Tilt the iPhone and the balls will roll with gravity.

Author Kevin Ryan Date 09/10/2009 (2:32 am) Comment 5 comments

Free iTGB iPhone App with Ball Physics

A free iTGB game that demonstrates balls physics is now available in the App Store. Check out the video and its free if you want to get it.

Author Kevin Ryan Date 09/01/2009 (7:33 am) Comment 3 comments

Treasuring the Things that Matter

In '78 I was 17 and driving up 101, heading to a concert in San Francisco to see Neil Young. I'm not sure how that road turned into the one I'm on.

Author Kevin Ryan Date 08/16/2009 (12:15 am) Comment 9 comments

New iTGB Game Released! Buggle

Relax and enjoy a unique and charming match three game. Very simple and intuitive game play -- just swipe your finger to slide and rotate the bugs. Match three bugs and they'll be free and fly away.

Author Kevin Ryan Date 08/08/2009 (12:45 am) Comment 4 comments

Hunter Sub surfaces in the iPhone App Store

Hunter Sub is an incredibly east to play and addictive World War II submarine game for the iPhone and iTouch.

Author Kevin Ryan Date 08/02/2009 (5:21 pm) Comment 3 comments

iTGB Game Development * Conga Drum Mania - iBabalu * Episode #1: Design

Episode #1: Design "Setting up a project in GarageGame's iTGB and brainstorming a game design."

Author Kevin Ryan Date 04/08/2009 (11:03 pm) Comment 24 comments

iTGB Game Released - iBabalu - Conga Drum Mania

BECOME THE HOTTEST CONGA PLAYER AROUND! See how many points you can get by playing along with the built in songs. Do well enough to make the drummer sing "Babalu!" and start earning double points.

Author Kevin Ryan Date 04/02/2009 (5:21 am) Comment 8 comments

Minigolf Mania - New Free Course Now Available

Hodge Podge Course There is a new free 18 hole course available for Minigolf Mania. You can download the Hodge Podge Course using the links below. It is around a 1.5 Mb download: [url...

Author Kevin Ryan Date 01/03/2007 (3:12 am) Comment 9 comments

Mac Minigolf Mania, Cheeseheads, and GGE

Mac Minigolf Mania [url=http://www.topmeadow.com/highway168/MinigolfMania-v1_0_378.dmg][/u...

Author Kevin Ryan Date 12/19/2006 (4:43 am) Comment 6 comments

Minigolf Mania Ships - Thanks

I don't have the energy right now to write a long blog - been fighting a cold the last week - but I wanted to get out some thanks to the people that helped get [url=http://www.garagegames.com/products...

Author Kevin Ryan Date 11/10/2006 (7:37 pm) Comment 7 comments

Late Night Reading

This will be a very short plan. Last night I was reading through the latest issue of Computer Gaming World before going to watch an episode from the first season of "Lost in Space" (thanks NetFlix)...

Author Kevin Ryan Date 08/24/2006 (6:37 pm) Comment 15 comments

Minigolf Mania's Flying Text

Background As I've worked on Minigolf Mania for the last few decades I've made several changes to stock the Torque Game Engine to accomplish various things. As I get the time I'm going to w...

Author Kevin Ryan Date 08/19/2006 (2:38 am) Comment 14 comments

Something old, something new, something borrowed, ...

Something old I wrote Black Belt in the fall of 1983 for the Apple II computer. It was a sid...

Author Kevin Ryan Date 08/15/2006 (11:18 pm) Comment 11 comments

All those years ago...

I'm been spending the last few days cleaning up my computer, my office and my web site and found some interesting older game development stuff. Some of it older than some of the people in the Garage ...

Author Kevin Ryan Date 07/28/2006 (6:39 am) Comment 12 comments

Puzzle Poker - New Music/Mac- Minigolf Mania

New Music http://www.garagegames.com/products/84 now has new songs thanks to th...

Author Kevin Ryan Date 07/08/2006 (4:53 am) Comment 8 comments

Puzzle Poker - Another game out the door (finally)

It has been a busy last couple of weeks and its very nice to get this one out the door. Before I go and get a little rest let me lay out a very short time line of its development. [b]Starting Out[/...

Author Kevin Ryan Date 05/11/2006 (3:21 am) Comment 11 comments

Minigolf, Camera, A Blast from the Past, and Aidan

Minigolf First, while you are still reading, I'm very close to having a test build of Minigolf available. If you would like to check it out and give feedback email me at [email]kevin@netptc...

Author Kevin Ryan Date 11/09/2004 (8:00 pm) Comment 14 comments

Ball Blast - Game in a Day (GID)

Well, I did one of those Game-in-a-Day things this weekend. The game is called Ball Blast and it uses the Torque engine. It is something of a simultaneous turn-based action/puzzle game. I like Torq...

Author Kevin Ryan Date 08/16/2004 (6:29 am) Comment 3 comments

Normal Life

Aidan Short story: In January my four year old Aidan's brain surgery didn't go as smoothly as we hoped. He had a bleed in the brain during one of the surgeries which ended up keeping him (a...

Author Kevin Ryan Date 03/29/2004 (2:09 am) Comment 2 comments

Surgery

Someday one of these plans will actually be about Game Development... My four year old, Aidan, has had a couple of surguries so far. The first one was fairly minor and he bounced back from it by t...

Author Kevin Ryan Date 01/17/2004 (10:18 pm) Comment 4 comments

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