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Cannons And Soldiers for Windows Phone

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:48:00 +0000

Hooray!

Cannons And Soldiers reached Windows Phone Marketplace! Thanks to HTML5 and UltimateJS engine we were able to bring the game to yet another platform in the short term with all the smoothness and performance of native games.

Check it out by yourself!

Download Cannons And Soldiers for Windows Phone

Our games at Firefox OS

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:22:00 +0000

In January Logicking's crew attended Firefox OS App Days in London, UK

We have a lot of fun playing with Mozilla's very own mobile system - Firefox OS. It's first completely HTML5 driven solution of such kind. Some of our games are already on Firefox Marketplace, other require a bit of optimization from our side but will follow soon.

HTML5 Games Ecosystem Presentation

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:08:00 +0000

New wonderfull presentation about HTML5 games ecosystem from our parnter BoosterMedia featuring our Cannons & Soldiers game and UltimateJS technology.

Full presentation is HERE.

UltimateJS is the best HTML5 framework

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:27:00 +0000

According the infographics recently published by BoosterMedia Logicking's UltimateJS is declared as the best HTML5 Framework available. We are so proud! :-) And everyone can get source code from GitHub repository. Seven games has been already published and more are comming!

Original article is here.

Cannons And Soldiers: Mountain Offense

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:12:00 +0000

Cannons And Soldiers is the most advanced game so far made with UltimateJS HTML5 game engine.

Attack the enemies' castles with a ruthless cannon fire. But be careful, some of our soldiers had been captured and hold as hostages, make them free!

Play the game online on every HTML5 compatible game browser: desktop browsers, iPad, iPhone and Androids.

PLAY ONLINE

UltimateJS v0.1 is released

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:26:00 +0000

Hi everyone!

Today we are releasing the result of our more than year HTML5 journey public for everyone!

Meet Logicking's HTML5 game engine - UltimateJS
Home Page
GitHub home

Unlike other HTML5 game solutions UltimateJS is focused on mobile web games at first place.
With UltimateJS developers can skip all mundane work associated with cross-platform compatibility like screen sizing for different resolutions, touch and mouse user input handling, sounds and sprite animation and put their main effort into the actual gameplay creation.

Several commercial games have been released and few more are in development.

Licensing terms are very straightforward:

1) UltimateJS is free for non-commercial use.
2) Indie License will include additional tools and demo-games, and will allow developer to distribute unlimited number of commercial titles without any royalties or other restrictions. Upgrades to new major version may require additional fee. We plan to set Indie License price to $99 for the 1.x version, which is due to come in early Q3 2012.

3) Early Adopters - those who'll get the 0.x version of the engine before June 2012 will be automatically granted Indie License and discount 50% for 1.x version.

So if you are interested in becoming an Early Adopter please email us at logicking@logicking.com with subject "HTML5 game engine"

Caravan Sokoban HTML5

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:11:00 +0000

Caravan Sokoban is variation of classic 'sokoban' game. The rules are very simple. Use your character to move items into their appropriate locations. The game features multiple items that go in different spots to make things a bit more challenging. If you get stuck you can hit the ‘undo’ button to go back a step.

Now you can play the game online on every HTML5 compatible game browser.

PLAY ONLINE

Cross-platform sounds for HTML5 games

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:06:00 +0000

Logicking has been in HTML5 development for more than a year. Overall quality and visual appearance of cross-platform HTML5 games have drastically improved since then, but most of the games still remains soundless. This is strange because there's nothing complex about making simple one-channel sounds that work on desktop browsers and on iOS (iPhone/iPad) and Android devices. Logicking's Monkey Music game was released in August 2011 and was arguably the first cross-platform mobile game with sounds ever.

In this article I will share few tips about what wrong with HTML5 sound and how it could be overcome with some simple tricks.

Here's list of problems with HTML5 audio at the moment:

Different browsers supports different sound format (mp3, wav, ogg etc);
iPhone and iPad allows only one MP3 sound can be loaded and played at time;
Android has limited support of <audio> tag and JavaScript audio API;
The HTML5 audio in general has high latency that is crucial for games.

So can we deal with this issues:

1. Different Sound Format

As following blog post from Scirra.com shows we need two formats to cover all the browsers Mp3 and Ogg, while guys from Scirra suggest to drop Mp3 for more copyright friendly MPEG-4 AAC.

So we will need to duplicate all of the sounds in two formats (Ogg, Mp3 or Mpeg4-ACC). It's not a big deal since the HTML5 games are supposed to be hosted online and you can check what the format is supported on the start and download only required content.

2. iOS (iPhone and iPad) HTML5 audio limitations

While being clearly the best browser for HTML5 games iOS's Safari limits audio in two ways:

Only one MP3 sound is allowed to be loaded and played at time;
Application can load and play audio only after actual user-generated click event.

The first issue can be solved by using Audio Sprite technology that described in details in this article.

In short, audio sprite is a long audio file that contains all sound samples needed for the game. Then one should store position and length of the each sample in the audio sprite file and then from java script code rewind playing "head" to desired position of audio sprite file and set callback using setTimeout to stop playback after sample's length is expired.

Free audio tool Audacity can be very helpful for creating audio sprites from the set of sample audio files.
The end of one sample should be distant from the beginning of another by 2 or even 3 seconds delay. Such big delay is required because there's a probability that due to the java script lags on the slow devices playback won't be stopped soon enough and user will hear unwanted sounds.

Here's how Coconut Beach audio sprite looks in the Audacity:

The second limitation - allowing of actual playback on user's click event - is also easily avoided. In the Logicking's HTML5 games there's always a Play button in the main menu with a short click sound played when user press it. On iOS devices first played sound is also initiate loading of the whole audio sprite. Just make sure that samples that might be played first in the game are placed in the beginning of the audio sprite because few seconds might pass depending on the speed of Internet connection before audio sprite file will be loaded completely.

3. Android Audio Limitations

Android started to support <audio> since version 2.3 Gingerbread. Alas overall experience is still very unpredictable on different devices. But the good news is that Android supports Flash that can be used to play audio. There's an excellent open-source library that can handle automatic HTML5/Flash audio transition for us - jPlayer

So all we have to do is to make our audio sprite functions executed via jPlayer API and we'll get cross-platform sounds on iOS and Android devices. While provided with both OGG and MP3 version of audio sprite file jPlayer will be able to additionally support all desktop browsers too.

4. High Latency of HTML5 Audio

Most games are supposed to be dynamic and responsive to user actions. Unfortunately current state of HTML5 Audio doesn't allow to synchronise animations and sounds very well. While Web Audio API is still supported by desktop versions of Chrome and Safari only game developers need to choose wisely what game actions should have sounds accompaniment and what should not. In other words sounds have to mark only significant not very frequent (1-2 times per second) events in the game to avoid mistiming issues. Although it still much better than have no sounds at all.

Coconut Beach HTML5

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:43:00 +0000

Coconut Beach is another physics puzzle game made with the help of Logicking's HTML5 game tech.
The goal is simple: solve the puzzles and collect the coconuts from the palms into the basket.

CLICK TO PLAY COCONUT BEACH

Apple Orchard HTML5 released

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:07:00 +0000

Arguably the first ever mobile HTML5 physics puzzle game with sounds on iOS and Android goes online on Spil Game portal.

The game was developed by using Logicking's own HTML5 game engine for casual and social games. The engine deals with multitudes of cross-platform compatibility issues like various screen sizes or ways sound is played.

Link will only work on mobile devices:
http://www.gamesgames.com/game/Apple+Orchard/en_US/index.html

GMK 1.2.12 for T3D released

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:12:00 +0000

Thanks to Deepscratch's hard work GMK 1.2.12 for T3D version 1.2 is out.

Read more at my post at GarageGames.com

Monkey Music HTML5 Released

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:05:00 +0000

Yet another Logicking's sokoban puzzle game. This time featuring music theme and powered by own HTML5 game engine. Monkey Music arguably is the first ever crossplatfrom HTML5 game with sounds on all devices.

PLAY ONLINE

Caravan Sokoban Android

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:26:00 +0000

Caravan Sokoban is available on Android Market free of charge.

GET IT HERE

It's a first Logicking's HTML5 game ported to Android OS via PhoneGap library. The game won second prize on the Spil Games' HTML5 Games Contest.

Space Jumper Released

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:16:00 +0000

Space Jumper is a latest physics puzzle game made with cooperation of Wheemplay ltd is released.
PLAY GAME ONLINE

Apple Orchard Flash Released

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:45:00 +0000

Yet another one game by Logicking is released. Collect fruits into the baskets, help the hedgehog to gather all the apples.

PLAY GAME ONLINE

Guide Bot Topology official page goes online.

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:26:00 +0000

Guide Bot Topology is an innovative pathfinding solution for intelligent agents' movement in the complex 3D virtual worlds. Due to unique approach of representing passable space Guide Bot outperforms rivals by effectiveness of memory usage and speed of real-time pathfinding.

Please visit Guide Bot's homepage to learn more.

Docker Sokoban Flash Released

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:58:00 +0000

Flash version of Logicking's first game Docker Sokoban is released. PLAY ONLINE

Guide Bot 0.8.1 is out

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:25:00 +0000

New version of Guide Bot Beta is out. Full compatibility with T3D 1.1 Beta is supported along with some important bugfixes. Beta discounts offers are still available.
Please visit GuideBot's homepage for more info.

Guide Bot Beta is available for everyone!

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:23:00 +0000

Guide Bot Beta can be evaluated by everyone now. Users that made a pre-order already received they copy.

Beta discount offer will be available till the February, 28. You can buy GuideBot Beta 0.8 now for $79.95. Price for a stable release of 1.0 will be significantly higher and probably will be in a range of $150-170.

All users of beta version will have all 0.x and 1.x updates for free.

Please visit GuideBot's homepage for more info.

Guide Bot Pre-Order is started

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:20:00 +0000

It was a long and hard road, GuideBot's development went far out of the schedule, but its was definitely worth the effort.

You can pre-order GuideBot Beta 0.8 now for $79.95. Price for a stable release of 1.0 will be significantly higher and probably will be in a range of $150-170.

All users of beta version will have all 0.x and 1.x updates for free.

If you'd like to pre-order a license please visit GuideBot's homepage for more info.

Game Mechanics Kit 1.2.7 and Guide Bot new video are released

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:17:00 +0000

Version 1.2.7 of Game Mechanics Kit with T3D 1.1 Alpha support is available.

New video for the dynamic cover system of the upcoming Guide Bot uploaded to the Guide Bot's homepage to learn more about.

Game Mechanics Kit 1.2.3 released

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:13:00 +0000

Version 1.2.3 of Game Mechanics Kit with T3D Beta 5 support is available.

Version includes:

- GMK T3D Beta 5 version support.
- Precompiled executable files for all supported engines.
- Minor bugs fixes.

Guide Bot - official page goes online

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:11:00 +0000

Guide Bot - all-in-one AI solution developed by Logicking.com - has got its own page. Please visit Guide Bot's homepage to learn more about Guide Bot's subsystems:

Advanced AI animation and sound playing abilities,
Customizable behavior controllers,
NavMesh pathfinder,
Lip Sync subsytem.

Game Mechanics Kit 1.2.0 with T3D support is available

noreply@blogger.com (Yuri Dobronravin) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:10:00 +0000

New version 1.2.0 of Game Mechanics Kit with T3D support and softbody physics object is available for download.

Main Features:

- GMK T3D version is available.
- Support for ACK male and female packs from BrokeAss Games.
- Source files for models and interiors placed in separate folder.

- Soft bodies support for Bullet.
- PhysX support for T3D.
- Bullet updated to 2.75 beta