Ben Garney gave a short interview to GameDev.net about the PushButton Engine at GDC 2009 in March. The interview just went up on their site and can be found by clicking this link. Here is a good quote from the interview:
…we knew early on we wanted to do Flash games - it’s a key, growing game development platform. You can run it on netbooks or consoles or high-end desktop PCs, and you can port easily to iPhone, mobile devices, things like this. A big market. As we looked around, we noticed there were a lot of really great game development libraries out there, but using them together was complicated. So our first order of business was to build some technology to make it easy to integrate other people’s code - these great libraries - and that’s what become the core of PushButton Engine.
Basically, our idea is - here is a way to build games out of reusable components and get lots of different libraries to work together. Everyone will benefit from that. It’s a better way to build games. So let’s get it out there are much as possible for everyone to use… which is why we used the MIT license, to make that safe for people.
Link: Interview with PushButton Labs
I’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback about the PushButton Labs Twitter background image as well as requests for a desktop background, so I took a few minutes to convert it into a multiple resolution desktop background. For kicks, I’ve also gone and tweaked a recent print advertisement for GreatGamesExperiment which also received a lot of similar feedback. You can preview and download both backgrounds by clicking read more right below, enjoy! [Update: Just added iPhone resolutions by request!]
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Today, we have release version 1.5 of the OnePress Theme Framework for WordPress. This release comes on the heals of the newest version of WordPress (version 2.8) being unveiled. The newest version of WordPress has made a number of changes in the code to change authentication and widget APIs for theme and plug-in developers. Due to these updates, we will not be supporting phpBB integration with OnePress as of this release. The download for OnePress 1.5 still contains functionality for those of you still operating under WordPress 2.7 and wish to remain using that. This release of OnePress is compatible with both versions 2.7 and 2.8 of WordPress.
As far as our plans for continued community development, we plan on leveraging the powerful bbPress system for our future projects at PushButton Labs and have so far liked what we’ve seen! If you were using the phpBB integration for your community, we suggest looking into bbPress if you wish to continue using forums on your site. Read more.
