Doing concept sketches and storyboards can be very helpful in the early (and sometimes later) stages of application design. While there are tons of templates for the iPhone, I have not yet seen a great template for the iPad.
So, I present, the Printable iPad Template! The PDF is set up to print very closely to scale with a real iPad. Just make sure any options like “scale to media” are off, and the PDF is printed at 100%. Click below to download. Let me know if you find this useful!
iPad Template PDF (98 KB)
We’re looking for 3D artists over at Limbic Software:
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3D Artists
Hired on a contract, by project basis. Must provide own tools and hardware.
Requirements:
- Knowledge of 3D Studio MAX, and specific tools pertaining to low-poly game development, such as UV unwrap and poly/mesh editing.
- Experience painting textures for models, and arranging into texture sheets.
- Comfortable editing basic text files to add texture/model information.
High-score leaderboards in iPhone games are virtually ubiquitous, but as with any hastily-built system the opportunity for cheating and other misdeeds is ripe. On such a poorly-secured and highly-visible platform, hackers are not long to follow.
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As you’ve likely noticed, I haven’t been updating lately – I’ve been busy launching a new company, Limbic Software, and pushing some really cool stuff with games on the iPhone.
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Trac is one of the preferred free solutions for project management and issue tracking, and has some really slick SVN integration as well. However, the downside to installing Trac can be substantial, as the installation process is potentially error prone, especially with a shared host such as Dreamhost. This article describes my installation process on DH, and may work for other shared hosts as well.
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If you’ve ever had to write a PHP page which displays data from a MySQL query, you’ve run into this problem before:
How do you design a system to elegantly separate database code from display code, and maintain a clean object-oriented structure?
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