(Michael Chinen)

Author: mchinen

XCode: Dealing with “Could not inspect the application package” error

After setting up a new cocos2d-x project and having run successfully, after some minor changes I hit this weird error that had only a few hits in google, with no clear solution. To fix it I did the following things. I don’t know which one is the right solution. 1. There was a mostly unhelpful […]

Cocos2D-X: Creating an iOS/android dual-platform project

I develop iOS apps. However, the first smartphone I had was an android device. I like open-source projects and bought it over the iPhone for idealogical reasons more than anything else. As a user, the android experience was okay, although iOS clearly had the apps and the polish. But when it came down to actually […]

1st year impressions of iOS game development

I moved to Japan in June to do iOS programming and game development. Not for a company or even a contract job. I just did it because I liked Japan and could see myself working there. There are other places that I like, but in the end Japan seemed the most attractive to me. I’m […]

Fixing guake transparency with metacity slow alt-tabbing (ubuntu)

I like guake as my terminal because I can full screen and half screen prettier than the gnome terminal (I can hide the tabs too). One part that is important for prettiness is transparency. Some will say that this is just eye candy, but it helps me to monitor chatrooms while I program in full […]

Back to top